In Roosboom, the nurseries at Halfway House are working flat out!Local teams are successfully propagating spinach plants, which have been carefully sown, transplanted and tended by young people at the centre.The women in charge of the vegetable garden are busy … Read More
This week, a new planting activity brought the Traversine Villiot garden in Paris to life: children helped plant strawberry plants in the Keyhole of the vegetable garden, a large circular container shaped like a keyhole, widely used in permaculture for … Read More
The children of the Villiot nursery are happily resuming their little routines in the Traversine garden, located right next to the nursery. Like real little gardeners, they come to put kitchen peelings in the compost bin, as all meals are … Read More
The Dawady seed production greenhouse is thriving! Malik and Abdourahmane, now helped by two young trainees, are watering the greenhouse in the mornings and evenings to cope with the hot weather. The planting beds have been carefully organised according to … Read More
In addition to the five women in charge of the vegetable garden at the Halfway house in Roosboom, two men help out four days a week with the more physical tasks. This month, they set about creating a second nursery, … Read More
The vegetable garden team set about enlarging the beds to increase their yield. The large grassy areas on either side of the rows of beds have been reduced, providing a 40% gain in cultivable area. These beds, located close to … Read More
New growing beds are coming to life at Halfway House in Roosboom, deployed in the greenhouse and outdoors to enrich the garden. Four local women now contribute on a daily basis, working in pairs five days a week to ensure … Read More
At the Traversine Villiot garden, 12 children from the Paris Anim’ Annie Fratellini center gathered to work on the petals of the vegetable mandala. The children worked enthusiastically together, under the guidance of the Designing Hope educational team. They began … Read More
The Traversine Villiot garden, surrounded by apartment buildings, benefits from an open-ground layout, which is an advantage compared to the Bercy roof terrace, but suffers from a lack of sunlight, especially during the winter period.This makes the garden a breeding … Read More
At Levi’s Nek Farm, the horse plays an essential role in agricultural work, particularly for plot maintenance and sowing. The farm’s young people prepare a mixture of seed, compost and manure, which they then place in furrows created using an … Read More
