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Jam with less sugar: a grandmother’s recipe

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Les Jardins d'ici
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Some jam recipes don’t require more than 300g of added sugar per kilo of fruit. I tried one with plums, tasted the result and thought about the potential benefits of such a recipe with regards to sugar intake, food miles and food self-provisioning.

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Europom 2018

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Les Jardins d'ici
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The annual meeting of non-profit organisations that promote traditional and local fruit cultivars in Europe took place on 27 and 28 October in Troyes, France. The event coincided with the 40th anniversary of its organiser, Les Croqueurs de pommes®.

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News: the Provençal garden revisited

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Les Jardins d'ici
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In the last two years the garden I visited in August 2016 has flourished under its owner’s tender care. June is a great time to see apricots and peaches in this now luxuriant orchard.

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The return of the monks’ famous apples and pears

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Les Jardins d'ici
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A 2,500 square-meter orchard nested in a corner of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris is what remains of a Carthusian domain which once hosted a big and internationally renowned fruit tree nursery. The monks left long ago, but their delicious varieties are back.

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The regeneration of the ‘Potager du Roi’

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Les Jardins d'ici
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Listed in the 2018 World Monuments Watch, the ‘Potager du Roi’, the kitchen garden created 340 years ago for Sun King Louis XIV in Versailles Palace, France, has an opportunity to design a new form of gardening aesthetics to produce the fruits and vegetables sovereigns would dream to have on their table. Continue reading →

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News: From Kroměříž to Versailles

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Les Jardins d'ici
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I have planned to visit the Potager du Roi in Versailles this weekend. Another orchard created for a European reigning figure of the 17th century to be renovated, which I am keen to discover after my visit to Kroměříž in Moravia in October. Continue reading →

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News: Trustee – ‘Les Croqueurs de Pommes’

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Les Jardins d'ici
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I am now a board member of the French non-profit organisation LES CROQUEURS de pommes®. The association is aimed at promoting biodiversity through the identification and protection of regional fruit varieties, carried out in collaboration with various organisations in Europe.

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ANEDD 2017

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Les Jardins d'ici
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A reflection on Youth and sustainable development, nature’s circular economy and the durability of a few children’s dreams made come true, two weeks after ANEDD 2017, the 11th ‘Assises Nationales Etudiantes pour le Développement Durable’ held in Toulouse.

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A Provençal garden three years in the making

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Les Jardins d'ici
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_mg_9327Fruit trees planted in January 2014, vines in the autumn, Gilbert’s garden near Aubagne in Provence looks quite mature already. “Stunning results”, the amateur gardener told me this summer.

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