Our chicken coop
posted in: Crops and livestock, The Grand Potager - Lauris
We welcomed our chickens and their first eggs. An enclosure has been built for them so that they can move around safely.
Traversine – Compost
posted in: Compost, France, Projects newsfeed, Traversine garden - Paris-Bercy
La Traversine develops a short circuit compost … The composter of La Traversine is preparing to digest the harvest of dead leaves from the past winter! We organized the composter in 2 bins, one stock the brown leaves collected from … Read More
Summer vegetables at the Traversine
The garden of Traversine in Paris benefited from an exceptional sunshine. This first year of cultivation was a successful test for several crops: very prolific climbing beans, tomatoes, squash, salad, corn …
La Traversine, summer 2018
In this short video, you will see the evolution of la Traversine, pedagogical garden created by Designing Hope on the roof of the Bercy preschool. This virtual tour goes shows the culture modules and the variety of plants growing on the … Read More
Saint Paul’s garden
posted in: Chicken, Crops and livestock, Saint Paul school – Leribe
The henhouse of free range native hens is booming! The laying hens have been isolated and there have been several births. Therefore the number of hens is about 80 hens. The vegetable garden is covered with cabbage and spinach, adapted … Read More
Alternating plots for animals and crops
posted in: Chicken, Crops and livestock, Saint Paul school – Leribe
A sas was built, with 2 doors, to control the exit of animals and direct them to one or the other 2 plots being intended alternately. This will make it possible to cultivate on a parcel benefiting from the manure … Read More
Natural barriers in Macambeni Garden
posted in: Macambeni – Piggs Peak, Valorization of biodiversity
Chya is really adapting well to Swaziland! The cuttings of the Fundzisa Live garden have become extremely dense shrubs, allowing more than a hundred cuttings to be harvested. We have replanted some of these cuttings along the fence of the … Read More
Construction of a mobile henhouse in Lesotho
posted in: Chicken, Crops and livestock, Saint Paul school – Leribe
Imagined for the Grand Potager de Fontenille in the South of France, here is a second application of this mobile hen house concept, in Lesotho this time, in St Paul school for the deaf in Leribe. The realization of this … Read More
Harvesting beans
posted in: The mandala
The first beans sown on the Mandala of the Grand Potager have been harvested! The Mandala thus fulfills its vocation of production and it is a pleasure to be able to grow good vegetables in such a beautiful place.
Installation of a drip irrigation system on the mandala
posted in: The mandala, Water management
A drip irrigation system has been set up on the petals of the Mandala of the Grand Potager. This irrigation system is particularly adapted to the shape of the Mandala, because it allows to irrigate the plantations without watering the … Read More