Toulouse: Educational farm, the neighborhood mobilized
New mobilization this Sunday at Place des Pradettes in Toulouse, to support the educational farm project in Bordeblanche challenged by the municipality. The Natures collective continues its action.
Braving the heat, the Natures collective once again mobilized this Sunday at Place des Pradettes in Toulouse to defend its educational farm project adapted to the two-hectare wasteland of neighboring Bordeblanche. A theatrical mobilization set up by the collective of associations, Alternatiba and Happening Rebellion, during which around a hundred people strolled through the neighborhood chanting the tune of the Funeral March, while around fifty other participants, lying down on the ground, symbolized the death of the project. Shortly after, to counter this pessimism and express their resistance, the participants sang the famous Italian song of revolt, Bella Ciao.
The solution of the inhabitants to preserve an island of freshness in a very dense district
What will this farm be? This initiative, introduced more than a year ago by a group of residents of Les Pradettes and the Alternatiba citizen movement, includes three stages: a market gardening farm with short-circuit vegetable production, then consumed on site, an educational garden and a shared garden, the latter already laid out in Bordeblanche. A solution also for the inhabitants to preserve an island of freshness in a very dense district. “The refusal of the City of Toulouse is incomprehensible, insists Malik Beldjoudi, member of the Natures collective and committed citizen. Either way, we won’t give up. The City must understand the social, climatic and future challenges of this project”. Further, Philippe Lebailly, president of the collective still wants to believe in it “as long as we don’t listen to the inhabitants, we confirm ourselves. This farm, managed by professionals, would be a source of jobs and wealth with the shared and educational gardens”. According to him, a concrete alternative for ecological transition and short circuits.
Unwavering support, Nicole Fenon, president of the Pradettes collective, assures “this project is a public good. The constructions are enough on the district. Place des Pradettes, there are no less than 400 T1s! Also, creating new densification near an already troubled spot would be misguided. »