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The Goyang City Agricultural Technology Center holds the 13th Goyang Urban Farming Festival from October 31 to November 1. It is designed so visitors can experience the cycle of urban farming—sprouting from the soil and growing in the city—and the value of a farming community built together by Goyang residents. The best way to enjoy it is the "growth-style" hands-on program: pick up an Urban Farmer certification card at the festival office and go through four stages—sowing, tending, harvesting and using—collecting stamps as you experience a year of farming. Hand in your pamphlet at the office to receive a completion gift. The site has four activity zones and a farmers' market. The Urban Farming Zone offers seed-bomb making, scallion planting, an insect specimen workshop and rhinoceros beetle experiences; the Healing Farming Zone offers eco-friendly cinnamon water, herbal foot-bath tea bags and rose postcards; the Future Farming Zone features a mobile plant clinic, future insect farming and urban farming; and the Farming Culture Zone offers Gawaji rice tasting, a farm machinery display and straw-rope wreath making. The farmers' market sells eco-friendly produce, flowers and succulents.