In small groups, visitors are invited to take part in a guided tour with a story about the gardener's precious allies: the garden's animal helpers.
These include ladybirds and hedgehogs, which can be real partners and helpers in the gardener's work, naturally regulating the population of certain crop pests. But how do you attract a hedgehog to your garden so that it can feast on the slugs that threaten your lettuces?
David Mapps, a volunteer with the association, answers this and many other questions. To make slugs feel welcome, in most cases you need to offer them an attractive place to take refuge. The general idea is to bring as much biodiversity as possible into the garden, so that flora and fauna can live together in complete harmony.
To complement this idea, a small educational corner was set up with posters on natural gardens. Visitors were even invited to get their hands dirty and put into practice what they had just heard by taking part in a workshop to create a shelter for garden helpers to take home.
The icing on the cake during this little jaunt to the garden was that the children, like the grown-ups, had the chance to stroke Myrtille and Mirabelle, the two rabbits in the garden, who have been given a very comfortable, custom-made hutch. And let's not forget the goslings, who made a little visit to the garden from time to time.
Le Jardin de l'Eden
