22 Nov 2024

Land Art under the pergola of the Traversine Bercy garden

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This afternoon, elementary school pupils created a magnificent piece of Land Art in their school garden. Using dried leaves, chestnuts and small sticks, they imagined and assembled a collective work of art. Everyone contributed in their own way, exchanging ideas … Read More
14 Nov 2024

Bercy children create leaf collage paintings

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Children from Bercy elementary school drew inspiration from their own interests to create their own paintings. After gluing the dried leaves to the paper, they drew around them to imagine unique shapes. One, for example, formed a soccer player, while … Read More
17 Oct 2024

Amazing beans at Traversine Bercy!

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If there’s one vegetable that amazes children in the Traversine Bercy vegetable garden, it’s the Blauhilde bean from our seed partner : Agrosemens.And yes, this pole bean, which looks so good on our pergola, isn’t green, it’s purple!Its long pods … Read More
16 Oct 2024

Taste week – Stage 3 – Tasting

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After harvesting and preparing the vegetables, we gave them to the kindergarten children at Bercy school to taste, under the garden’s pergola, which was still covered with our climbing beans… They thoroughly enjoyed themselves, with some children preferring the tomato … Read More
16 Oct 2024

Shapari Behzadi workshop

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Today, children from the school and CLAJE had the opportunity to meet Shapari Behzadi, a visual artist and teacher from Tehran. She organized a creative activity based on natural elements such as branches, leaves, straw and bundles. The activity involved … Read More
11 Oct 2024

Taste Week – Stage 1 – Harvesting vegetables from the Traversine Bercy garden

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At the start of this mild, sunny autumn, we harvested the last of the vegetables from the Bercy school garden!Leeks, tomatoes, chard, butternut, beans… We harvested a generous basket to cook them for the Semaine du Goût (Taste Week).It was … Read More
2 Oct 2024

Samosa party in the Villiot garden

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To mark the annual party at the Villiot residence, the Designing Hope association organised a cooking workshop in the garden to make the most of the produce from the garden.Freshly harvested spinach was cooked with onions to make the main … Read More

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