Thinking about the environment and climate change, the Vila Nova de Famalicão City Hall is implementing more sustainable solutions in the maintenance of green spaces in the municipality.
The new practices adopted by the City Council, which allow a more restricted use of some resources, such as water, and value autochthonous species, started to be signalled in several parks and gardens, such as the Sinçães Park, 1.º de Maio Park and Juventude Park, among others.
"We do not cut the grassland so that it can flower and reseed"; "We do not pick the leaves in order to stop using synthetic fertilizers"; "We do not cut the grassland to feed bees and other insects that feed the birds"; "We plant grassland to save water" and "Here there are weeds because the space is free of herbicides" are the five messages that were recently spread throughout the various green spaces of the municipality.
New solutions that can be replicated in all gardens and that were signposted in order to "alert and sensitize the community to the importance and urgency of adaptation to a new climate reality", says the Mayor, Mário Passos, who also recalls "the very relevant environmental and ecological function that green spaces play in the urban environment".
It should also be noted that the local authority has strengthened its commitment to autochthonous plants, dry meadows and flowering meadows that do not have so many water needs.
It should also be recalled that, very recently, and taking into account the meteorological drought that affected the entire national territory, the municipality decided to deactivate all automatic irrigation systems in the municipality under its management. The decision covered nearly one hundred irrigation systems supplied with water from the public network installed in several parks, gardens, squares, roundabouts and buildings in the city and parishes, whose irrigation is now performed manually and in a more controlled manner.