Creating an Orchard in the Garden: the Right Questions to Ask Before Planting Creating an Orchard in the Garden: why autumn is the right time to start Planting a few fruit trees seems quite simple: choosing your favorite fruits, digging a few holes, and waiting ...
Preparing Your Vegetable Garden in Autumn Preparing Your Vegetable Garden in Autumn: why September is the right time to start We often imagine that the vegetable garden begins in spring, with the first sowings and tomato plants. In real...
The Founding Garden When we bought our house in 2018, I had no particular project for the land. It was primarily a house. With a little more space than I had known until then. And com...
An Edible Micro-Forest at the Founding Garden An edible micro-forest of 30 m²: is it really possible? This autumn, a new area is taking shape at the Founding Garden. On the east side of the land, along the boundary with the neighborhood, n...
Your Herbal Tea Has Traveled the World Your herbal tea has traveled the world before arriving in your cup. Take a second to ask yourself the question. Where does this chamomile you are infusing tonight come from? Not from the meadow behind yo...
Re-naturalize the school Vegetalize schoolyards: is planting a few trees really enough? Across Belgium, projects to green schoolyards are multiplying. This is excellent news. But of...
Abundance is the strategy of the living Why do we always think in terms of scarcity? A tomato seed. Planted, it produces a plant. The plant produces an average of about ten tomatoes. Each tomato contains about 200 to 300 gr...
The gesture and its corrective Why do we spend our time breaking natural cycles? Observing a garden for several months often leads to a strange conclusion. A large part of our interventions consists of i...
The forgotten lever A garden seems innocuous. A million gardens change the world. Observed from the street, a private garden appears insignificant. A few hundred square meters, a lawn, a few trees, a pota...
100g of Daisy Can a living space produce more than we imagine? This week, an innocuous observation has shaken some well-established intuitions. In about ten minutes, the Founding Garden...
Your flower beds are not always ecological Your flower beds are not ecological. Here’s why. In many municipalities, urban flower beds still follow the same model, season after season. We tear out. We replant. We recom...
Chickens in the garden Integrating chickens into the garden: good idea... really? The five hens from the Founding Garden have recently started laying . And with them, a question we often hear: "is it profitable, chickens?" ...