From seed to seed: sowing broad beans and turnips at La Traversine Bercy 🌱

This week, the nursery school children took part in a new sowing activity in the educational garden at La Traversine Bercy, based on a theme dear to the project: the life cycle of plants, from seed to seed.

The workshop began with a moment of discovery and hands-on learning: the children shelled broad beans harvested this summer from the vegetable garden. These precious seeds, carefully dried on the vine, became the seeds for the new season.

Once the beans were ready, the children were able to sow them in rows in the garden’s greenhouses, one by one, in the loose, moist soil.

To learn how to space their seedlings properly, the children used a small measuring stick: This visual aid helps them to place their seeds carefully, a simple but effective technique for visualising the spacing between seeds. A 15 cm stick was used as a guide for broad beans, which need space to grow.