Wednesday, April 22: Let’s get our hands dirty (or not) for Earth Day! Lots of activities for kids and adults alike to honor and celebrate our planet in our own way 🌏
🐐🐝 Educational Farm · 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
To mark Earth Day, the Tiligolo Farm is setting up in the garden. Children can enter the farm to touch and pet the animals, under the farmer’s watchful eye.
Free and open to all!
🧑🌾🥕 Community Garden Workshop · 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Seeding and planting – get your hands in the soil and help create La Roche’s community garden. Free admission (membership in the association required to participate).
🪴🫙 Fun Botany · 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
The World in a Jar / Wardian Case – The Political History of the Terrarium
The history of Wardian cases that crossed oceans to transport tropical plants. + Making a terrarium in a jam jar. Wardian Case, the political and cultural history of the terrarium. Join a mini-lecture on these glass boxes invented in the 19th century, followed by making a terrarium in a jar.
Registration: https://botaniqueludique.com/inscription/wardian-case (maximum 12 participants)
Cost: €7 (+ €1.50 if jar is provided on-site); all other materials (plants, substrate, etc.) are provided
🎨🌸 Tatakizome Workshop · 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Introduction to the Tataki Zomé Technique
The plant-printing workshop involves experimenting with an ancient Japanese technique called Tataki Zomé. This art involves pounding plants onto cotton fabric to create plant prints. Under the force of the pounding, the plant cells open up, release their sap, and thus saturate the fabric.
Supplies and materials provided. €15 (Solidarity rate: €10, Support rate: €20)
Audience: adults, teens, and families
Registration: https://forms.gle/iNnhrKJrKEsSzqwG8 (maximum 10 participants)
Contact: annedamesin@gmail.com
🖼️🌷 Exhibition (re)generations landscape · 12 PM – 9 PM
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, ÉSAJ presents (re)générations paysage, an exhibition dedicated to those who imagine, design, and transform contemporary landscapes.
https://www.esaj.asso.fr/…/actua…/re-generations-paysage
🔎🌱 Guided garden tours with ÉSAJ students; schedule to be announced
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