The Jardin d’Yvonne brings together all generations in Villeurbanne

Yvonne’s garden is much more than just a vegetable garden. Located in the heart of Villeurbanne, this communal green space invites residents to cultivate together, to exchange and share friendly moments.

It is a place slightly out of time Villeurbannea stone’s throw from the rails on the T6 tramway under construction. Also a stone’s throw from the future ACI areabuilt to replace the unnamed company. Between the areas of Croix-Luizet, Les Poulettes and La Doua, Yvonne’s garden was created in 2013.

Objective: to know the organic cultivation from vegetable plants in the center of the city, sharing friendly times with neighbors and improve ecological awareness.

We met at Carole Calletmember of this garden in the city.

« Yvonne’s gardenan area of ​​about 400 square meters is in the center of the area Villeurbannein the northern region and aimed at to find, share culturesthe botany. Make known the nature in ville and bring nature back to the city through it exchangesof the shares. The garden is open. regularly and especially every Sunday evening. People who live in the neighborhood can drop by, stay for five minutes, join if they want. If they go together, they can come whenever they want to this place and they can test. They can a planter what they want«.

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« Where will one crop plan to the year we are trying to give respect but we are really trying. So the people who come can say I want to try beer plant. And at that time, they can do it. And then, we’ll see together if it works, or if it doesn’t. What should have been done differently, etc.? We also find out everything there is medicinal plantsthat’s all wild plantsthat’s all edible plants. These are topics that we really like and that people are generally passionate about. » explained Carole.

The 400 m² of Yvonne’s garden yes together The chance to do tests. Everyone is responsible for the whole garden.

« Yes, we harvest regularly. So not business volumes, obviously. But we have good years. This year we had a lot figswe had a lot masses. We had a few pumpkins. And we test the culture of the christian which is working fine now. It is a plant found in the Antilles or in more tropical climates. But right now, he is working well with the group climate which is changing.«

The neighborhood is mixed: old houses, recent buildings and new building programs soon. Yvonne’s garden playing a connecting role.

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Students invested for a year or two

« THERE ARE Villeurbannethere is still a lot gardens which was created a few years ago. So it responds to demand. People want to have places where they can go, where they can meet people. For us, the uniqueness of the neighborhood is that we have a lot of students who move in because we are very close to the universities.«.

« Among our members, there is also students who come for a year, two years, then they leave. But it is also a people who are interested in going to these places even if it is temporary; Even if he is not going to live ten years in the society. We have people who are very invested. For a year, he brings a lot to the assembly. Then they go off to live their lives. Villeurbanne it is also a city where there is a lot of movement but this is not necessarily a hindrance to the collective life«.

An uncertain future for the Jardin d’Yvonne

Yvonne’s garden still in place for now despite the construction of the new ACI region. And despite putting the T6 rails down a few meters from the you give etc pumpkins.

« We hope that our place will stay where it is… With all our projects. We would also like to be a model, because now we are starting to vegetation very dense and which makes up a newborn island. When the summers are very hot, we feel it. We are very happy to have places like that, very new. After all, we know that gardens can also be mobile. If we have somewhere else to go, it’s not a big deal. But it is true that we have now introduced species, treesof the fruit trees which is beginning to be well established. Therefore, we would like to stay as long as possible » concludes Carole Callet.

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