The Marimurtra Botanic Garden is growing horticultural varieties from Les Refardes, a non-profit cooperative that coordinates the production of organic, certified and local vegetables.
Marimurtra aims to spread the biodiversity cultivated with seeds of local varieties of organic production and made in the country. These seeds are produced in an artisanal and collaborative way between farmers.
For quality issues and to avoid hybridization with other varieties of the same species, not all varieties are always available every year, which is why seeds are kept and given away for generations. And, in order to recover the local varieties of the territory and not exclude varieties from other regions, they adapt to the area.
These horticultural varieties can be seen planted in the garden. A perfect place to discover, explore and learn as a family; the origin of such basic foods as vegetables and plants that are used in everyday cooking.
In the organic vegetable garden, elements are used to encourage interaction with the ecosystem; flowering plants and aromatic plants that attract auxiliary fauna and regulate pest control, or the insect hotel, which serves as a refuge and favors the pollination of species.
Since 2017, no synthetic chemical products have been used in the vegetable garden or in the rest of the Garden. The management of the garden is carried out with the application of plant extracts of nettle, horsetail, borage and comfrey, which are made in the garden itself. The applications start at the time of sowing the seed until the end of the crop.
