The garden at the Handiscole school in Rufisque is, in a way, the little brother of the Traversine garden in Bercy. Both were built on the roof of a school, with a shared aim: to raise children’s awareness of nature, … 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
La Traversine organizers have built a double-bin composter for the Bercy garden. Specially designed for this above-ground garden, it will enable biomass from vegetable garden maintenance to be recycled. The first bin will receive compostable waste to produce rich compost, … Read More
Following a reorganisation of the terrace linked to the extension of the school, and the construction of a new canteen close to the vegetable garden, new containers were installed on the roof garden. The recycled plastic containers, cut in half … Read More
At Roosboom, young plants have a number of enemies: the sun, lack of water and attacks by locusts and grasshoppers, which love young shoots… So we designed a system of bottomless trellises that has the advantage of drying out less … Read More
The star planter was designed in the same way as the other planters :A watertight tray is filled with clay balls to form a water reserve. Geotextile is laid on top to prevent the soil from mixing with the balls. … Read More
In order to fill the bottom of the growing containers of the roof garden of the school of Rufisque, the children go in search of discarded branches on a wasteland of the district near the school… The occasion of a … Read More
The team of the Traversine garden takes care now of four culture trays in the playground of the nursery school. Before planting fruit, vegetables and other plants with the kindergarten children, we enriched and aerated the soil in the containers. … Read More
It is autumn, it is time to enrich and to refill the tubs of the mandala and the Keyhole of the garden of the Traversine Bercy in order to prepare the tubs to welcome new cultures. The bins have been … Read More
6 months after the installation of the vegetable garden on the roof terrace of the Petits Princes school in Rufisque – Senegal, the containers have been filled with a variety of vegetables. They have benefited from abundant rainfall, and the … Read More
