Boulel is one of five villages surrounding the Dawady community garden, which was set up with the active support of local coordinatorsMalik and Abdourahmane, and the backing of The Ivory Foundation and the Marie-Pierre Crosnier Mangeat Foundation. The first step … Read More
As part of its commitment to agro-ecology, The Ivory Foundation has installed a greenhouse at the Village Pilote association in Senegal. The aim of the project is to produce local seeds and a large quantity of vegetables to make the … Read More
Children from the Bercy kindergarten had the pleasure of picking the very first raspberries of the season in the Traversine Bercy garden. Thanks to generous sunshine from the roof terrace, the fruit ripened two to three weeks ahead of schedule. … Read More
At the Traversine Bercy garden, school children are actively involved in growing strawberries on the roof terrace. After transplanting the runners into new trays in the autumn and helping with weeding, maintenance and watering throughout the year, they were able … Read More
The children at Bercy school are proud to have grown their own tomato plants ! Back in February, they sowed seeds in cups set up in the school playground. At the end of March, the young shoots were transplanted to the … Read More
The young deaf and hard-of-hearing residents of Levi’s Nek farm were visited by a regional trainer sent by the Ministry of Agriculture. Her aim is to teach the farmers methods for conserving their market garden produce. At the end of … Read More
Young deaf and hard-of-hearing farmers from Levi’s Nek have harvested part of their potato field. These vegetables will be added to the tomatoes, peppers and spinach harvested to fill the parcels of fresh vegetables distributed to the most vulnerable HIV-positive … Read More
Young deaf and hard-of-hearing people at Levi’s Nek farm have been able to harvest a large crop of tomatoes and peppers grown in their greenhouse.As part of the long-term partnership between the Farming our Future farm and the Levi’s Nek … Read More
In Dawady, a small town 1.5 hours by track from Tambacounda in eastern Senegal, the community garden set up in 2018 by The Ivory Foundation next to the local health center fulfills two objectives:It hosts 150 women in a large … Read More
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
