Family gardens

The working gardens , become after war, family gardens are pieces of ground availability of the inhabitants by the municipalités.
These pieces, affected generally for the pot culture, were initially intended to improve the living conditions of the workmen in their getting a social balance and a food self-subsistence.

Criteria of assignment

The pieces of family gardens are managed by associations private and assigned to private individuals for their own production.

The request being largely higher than the offer, the production times a garden can reach several years.

The criteria generally selected are the membership of the commune, social diversity, the geographical proximity (the garden requires a regular maintenance including in week).

The regular commercial practice is excluded.

L.561-1 article of the rural Code

the associations of working gardens, the purpose of which are to seek, arrange and distribute grounds to place at the disposal of the household head, like such, apart from any other consideration, the plots of land which their owners cultivate personally, in order to provide for the needs for their hearth, other than any regular commercial practice, must constitute in the form of associations declared or recognized public utility in accordance with the law of the July 1901.

History

The first working gardens French were inspired by the kitchen gardens encouraged by Doctor Schreber in Germany. This idea made some followers like the Volpette abbot with Saint-Etienne, and Mrs Hervieu with Sedan.
At the end of the 19th century, the Abbot Jules Lemire , influential politician, Appointed - Christian Mayor of the City of Hazebrouck in French Flanders (Northern), imagines the working gardens, with an aim of improving the situation of the working family S .

the working gardens profess a social vocation and defend a certain social order: if they make it possible to the workmen to escape their slum while benefitting from a more respirable air, they also move away them from the cabarets and encourage the family activities within these green areas.

The Lemire abbot founds, the French Ligue of the ground corner and the hearth in 1896, in order to make the access to the pieces simpler to its managed.

Evolution

In 1904 , there exist only forty-eight working gardens in Paris region for 3,5 million inhabitants. By the means of the Company of the working gardens of Paris and Suburbs, their multiplication is favoured. In 1913, the Paris region has 1.515 of them, of which the half are established in suburbs.

Both Guerre S world cause the setting in Potager S many Parc historical S and pieces. At the end of the Second world war, one counts 250.000 working gardens in France.

The law of the July 26th 1952 retains the term of family gardens . The legal framework is defined by the rural Code: the family gardens must be managed by associations law of 1901.

In France, the October 15th 2003, a proposal of Loi relating to the collective gardens is adopted by the Sénat.

The examination of this text charms obviously the senators who follow one another the platform to praise the merits of these launched gardens more than one century ago;

“the Poetry of the Concrete and the asphalts hardly attracts crowd. The world is mineralized, atomized, is computerized, and the French turn more and more to the world of the alive one: gardens, the Forest, the Countryside. It is enough to a Fleur and a garden around for embaumer the hours and to color the Jour S” (Christian Cointat, member of the Parliamentary delegation for the European Union (UMP))
“Seeing in these collective gardens, the Antidote with the evil of the cities” (Jean-Pierre Sueur, senator of Loiret (Center) (PS))
“We speak about the flowers and the Fruit S, the city and the Beauté, the insertion of all. That which digs, sows, sprinkles and maintains becomes modest actor but with whole share of the French application of the protocol of Carthagène on the Biodiversité” (Marie-Christine Blandin, senator of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Greens))
“family gardens, that they are of insertion or divided cause social balance, factors of local life and framework of life” (Tokia Saïfi, appointed European (EPP, European Popular party))

The private bill proposes to as follows write the L.561-1 article of the rural Code: “ name “gardens collective” refers to the family gardens, with the gardens of insertion and with the divided gardens ” “ One understands by family gardens the grounds divided into pieces, assigned by the territorial collectivities or associations of family gardens to private individuals there practitioner the gardening for their clean needs and those for their family other than any regular commercial practice. ”. This private bill did not succeed.

Contest of the most beautiful gardens

Each year, a contest of the most beautiful gardens is carried out, as well at the local level, as at the national level. At the national level, the National council of the Cities and Villages flowered organizes the contest. The criteria are the pot decoration and the Fleurissement.

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