聯署支持成立金鐘都市農業園。Call for supporters: "Urban Agri-Park in Admiralty"

支持行動呼籲：
耕種在金鐘 ！金鐘都市農業園

添馬公園的口號為「公眾的添馬」和「地常綠」(永久綠化土地)，它一直是市民大衆的休憩用地。傳統概念上的「綠色」是公園內的樹木和花草，越來越多城市開始明白要真正可持續發展，糧食生產不可能只依賴外地入口，從環保、社會和糧食安全的角度看，糧食應盡可能在本地生產，基於這份理念及需要，何不把綠色概念與21世紀同步推進，把花草樹木的「綠」轉化成「可食用的綠」？使「地常綠」更可持續地發展下去！我們的理念非常簡單：維持添馬公園草地和樹木的面貎不變, 改變至少10%添馬公園用地成為可以吃的食景。

添馬公園位於政治決策核心地帶,是可持續發展思維的出發地。政府說打算推行一系列民生議題, 可是面對本地食物被內地市場壟斷引致的食物安全問題又有何實際解決方法？如何透過社區農業和教育讓人在社會更好地團結起來? 又如何在環境保護上真正促進生物多樣性和回收廢物, 創造一個更好的環境?

添馬既是一個政治地標: 標誌着我們的行政及立法機關；它同時亦是社會地標, 廣闊的草坪讓人休憩和相聚。 我們何不再進一步讓它成為一個關心環境系統的地標，把環保的思維與政治行動互相串連成為我們社會共同關注的目標？

「金鐘都市農業園建議書」提出的有機耕種方式，是根據自然永衡法的設計概念，自然永衡法運用自然、模擬自然，以永續方式種植食物，它的三個道德包括：呵護地球、照顧人及公平分享與擔當。「金鐘都市農業園建議書」便是根據這套理念和法則落實推行，把自然永衡法運用到都市農業及連結社區不同面向生活當中，對應着政府新農業政策而提出的一套永續生活設計系統，幫助我們從疲弱的本地農業注入生機。

「金鐘都市農業園建議書」尋求在社會日漸失衡的民生議題中一些明確解決之道。如果你支持在金鐘耕種，推動都市農業的理念和行動，我們邀請您在這聯署，成為支持行動的一份子 (可以用個人或組織身份，匿名也可以)。

請參閲Facebook 民主耕地。https://www.facebook.com/FarmsforDemocracy

連結：
1.「金鐘農耕實驗社區農業報告」
2.「申請金鐘社區耕種計劃 - 時序表」

Tamar Park was created as a place of green for the benefit of the public, as evidenced by the slogans “公眾的添馬” (Tamar for the Public) and “地常綠” (perpetual green land). “Green” was traditionally known to mean trees and flowers in public parks, but increasingly the urban world is beginning to recognise that to sustain cities it is no longer tenable to outsource food production to the hinterland, and that food production has to happen closer to home for various environmental, social and food security reasons. Following this line of thought, why not enhance the “green” idea behind Tamar Park and bring Tamar Park up to speed with the 21st century by taking it a step further and reinterpreting “green” to include also “edible green”? Keep the lawns, keep the trees, but change at least 10 per cent of Tamar.

Tamar Park, at the heart of Hong Kong policy-making, is where sustainable, community-led ideas should emanate from. With the government currently pushing an agenda of livelihood issues, where’s the focus on healthy and nutritious food in a market dominated by China-produced food with questionable standards? Where’s the social aspect in livelihood by bringing people together by for example community farming and education? Where’s the environmental aspect in livelihood of promoting biodiversity and recycling organic waste to create a better environment?

Tamar is already a political landmark: it features the head office of our executive branch and plays host to countess debates in Legco. It’s also a social landmark, as its wide and open lawns invite people to saunter, rest and meet. Why not also make it an environmental landmark and combine environmental thinking with political action and entwine it into our social discourse?

Organic farming will be the main practice of our farming method, while permaculture will be the main design concept in our implementation process. Our actions on the farm will be based on the permaculture ethics of Earth care, people care and resource share. That is the thinking underlying this proposal for an Urban Agri-Park, envisioning a renaissance of urban farming and community interaction, and logical urban counterpart to the government’s new agricultural brainchild of creating a rural Agri-Park to revitalise our ailing agricultural sector.

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This proposal seeks to redress this imbalance and focus on some livelihood issues currently being overlooked with real, tangible results. If you support the idea and our efforts for urban farming, put down your name as a supporter (either as individual or organisation; anonymous also possible) by following this link.