3 Jun 2025

Artichokes in top form on the roof of Bercy!

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The artichokes in the Traversine garden on the roof terrace of the Bercy school have thrived magnificently this year. Planted last year, the plant produced just one flower… but this year it has five! This fine result illustrates the productivity … Read More
2 Jan 2025

Installing the fabric on the Roosboom greenhouse

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Once the greenhouse’s wooden poles and metal frame were in place, the sunshade fabric, which had been hand-sewn with a nylon cord, was positioned on the structure. A perimeter trench was then dug all around the greenhouse to bury the … Read More
1 Jan 2025

Setting up a nursery for vegetable seedlings at Roosboom

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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
1 Jan 2025

Preparation of planting beds on the new Halfway House site

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After preparing the growing beds inside the greenhouse, the Roosboom team started working on the new plot of land recently made available to Halfway House by Roosboom Town Council. The humid summer is the ideal time to prepare the soil, … Read More
1 Jan 2025

Construction of a greenhouse on the Half Way House in Roosboom

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Young farmers from Levi’s Nek farm in Lesotho came to Roosboom to share their know-how and build a 200 m² greenhouse on the Halfway House site, similar to those they have already built on their own farm.Pine poles are set … Read More
26 Jun 2023

Planting courgettes in Bala

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As part of the seed production project launched in West Africa by The Ivory Foundation in collaboration with Agrosemens, Abdourahmane, the gardener at the Bala seed farm, is currently transplanting courgettes into beds in the seed greenhouse. Courgettes are preferred … Read More

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