Designing Hope has recruited a full-time cook for the Garden of Skills. To accompany rice or traditional semolina (pap), Spe cooks a daily sauce using seasonal vegetables from the garden.
We organised a painting activity using our stencils representing all kinds of leaves, fruits and vegetables. They were also able to use dried leaves to create various patterns. The children made many colourful paintings to take home!
Deaf and hard-of-hearing youngsters from St Monica’s farm water the keyhole. The Keyhole is a traditional garden from Lesotho. So it was very important that the garden at St Monica’s should also have this high circular vegetable garden. The perimeter … Read More
With the children of the nursery of Villiot, we planted bulbs of tulip all around the kiosk of the garden of the Traversine Villiot. The children put the bulb in each hole and then covered it with soil before watering … Read More
At St Monica’s farm, the youngsters look after the crops, chickens and sheep.
Abdourahman, the head gardener of the Bala garden, is also in charge of three gardens in three outlying villages. With the support of The Ivory Foundation, stakes and fences have been purchased to delimit market gardening areas operated by about … Read More
With the children welcomed by the Centre Paris Anim’ (CLAJE), the team of Dessine l’Espoir organized a workshop creation of mobiles with natural elements. On straight tree branches, the children hung woolen threads on which they suspended several vegetal elements: … Read More
The harvest of vegetables realized at the beginning of November in the garden allowed us to organize a meal in the garden of the residence Villiot-Râpée, in the presence of all the actors who interact regularly with the garden. The … Read More
Even in November, it is still time to sow some seeds… and it is what the children of the nursery school of Bercy did! Hoping that the first sprouts will survive the cold winter, the children sowed yellow turnips, lettuce, … Read More
Within the framework of a day of training organized by Unis-Cité and bearing on the topic of the environment, the young people in Civic service were able to put the hand to the paste and to collect the last green … Read More
