L’écologie pratique
For the gardeners only, really
This centre just out of Mens is open from April to October to demonstrate practical ways of living which ‘respect the planet’. Organic gardening, ecologically-interesting building materials, sound use of energy and water. They also sell organic food at their café and have a shop with books and other material to help people wanting to go down this road. They have published many books in the last 25 years and their quarterly magazine Les Quatre Saisons is very popular in France
I took a whole lot of photos and haven’t culled them as I usually do, on the grounds that gardeners are interested in a variety of things and you don’t really know what you are interested in until you see it. Picasaweb has a little magnifying glass which allows you to zoom in if you want to read something or have a closer look. I haven’t labelled anything much.
The parsley photos are because most of the parsley here looks like celery plants. This photo proves that the curly variety grows well too. There are even parsnips growing at Terre Vivante. Parsnips are a forgotten vegetable here. People that know them like them, but these people are rare.
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Their web site (in French): http://www.terrevivante.org/
