Councillor Paweł Śliwko argued at a session of the Municipal Council that in Bolesławiec, a real “second Japan” on the outskirts of the town is being painstakingly built by retired people and pensioners who use allotment gardens. In gathering their crops, they rival the resourceful Asians who can grow fine cabbages even on railway embankments due to the lack of land suitable for farming. Organic vegetables and fruit from the miniature gardens satisfy a substantial part of the needs of households in the town on the Bóbr, while working in the fresh air is often a genuine hobby for seniors and extends their lives.
The substance of the interpellation was a request to harden the dirt road leading to the “Serbinowo” allotments, which is almost impassable during spring and autumn thaws and rainfall. The request concerns a 200-metre stretch of asphalt or a hardened surface made of reclaimed cement paving slabs from demolished street pavements or paving blocks, which would make it possible to reach the gardens at any time of year and in any weather. The asphalt road ends at the cemetery’s side gate... An omen, perhaps?