Agriparc of Mas Nouguier

Maintenance and management of urban nature, Knowledge creation and awareness raising

Production, Education, Recreation purposes: -"A part of the space is exploited by the town hall as an agriparc where vines, olive groves and hives are pedagogical supports for the public" (Ref. 2) -A social vocation (creation of 13 jobs with employment of 80% of persons with disabilities) (Ref. 7, article June 2017) -"The Mas Nouguier, little known even the neighbors, is currently the object of plantations of at least 200 trees that will enhance the roads. Muriers, plane trees, pines and maples will bring a little shade through the vineyards. While ash, poplar and weeping soils will surround the retention basins and will gradually mask the industrial zone and the high voltage lines over the course of the seasons" (Ref. 3). -Four issues are associated with it: a cultural issue, that of preserving a wine heritage, an agricultural issue with the preservation of a functional wine estate, an urban landscape issue as a green space, an environmental issue because it is 'part of the Montpellier green network and includes two water retention basins. A new stake expressed by the green spaces department is quickly added to these first 4 challenges: making the agripark a conservatory of wine and agricultural varieties. The agripark was included in the 2010-2014 biodiversity plan bringing together actions carried out in favor of the environment" (Ref. 10). -"This emblematic site of nature in Montpellier owes its preservation and agricultural development to the will of the city." (Ref. 5 - The guiding idea is that “everything that is planted in the park must be valuable, food plants, fruit trees, berries, herbal tea plants,…” (Ref. 10). "where the food plants cultivated according to the principles of agroecology carry both a landscape and a production function" (Ref. 10). Climate change

-City-managed vineyard produces its own wine: "It includes 10 ha of vineyards (managed by the City), which harvest and bottles from the cooperative winery. The wine is intended for an auction whose amount is returned to charities and the other part is used in pots of friendship and events." (Ref. 3) -In 2010, while concerting with local authorities towards the future of the Mas Nougier area, Serge Fleurence (first deputy mayor delegated to the quality of public space) "had a decree signed to forbid the hunting immediately" in order to already took actions to protect animal life on the site. (Ref. 2) -"The investment of inter-municipal authorities in a planning process taking into account agricultural areas, then in an agroecological and food policy, the municipality's desire to carry out a biodiversity policy and to stage a reinvented agricultural landscape, have registered their footprints in the agripark" (Ref. 10). -"Urbanism Plan (Ref. 5): "The protection and development of this green lung are at the heart of its action, particularly in terms of land use planning and the preservation of natural areas within the framework of its local urban planning plan." -"by using animal traction, it limits the use of heat engines, and the associated greenhouse gas emissions" (Ref. 5).

• Local government/Municipality
• Non-government organisation/Civil Society
• Citizens or community groups
• Marginalized groups: Elderly people, People with functional diversities
• Food producers and cultivators (i.e. farmers, gardeners)
• Young people and children