North America
Why North America?
This family trip was part of a comprehensive approach. A simple desire at first, we have expanded our horizon to make it a useful and coherent project.
For 25 years now, we have been involved in the design, management, maintenance of living gardens, tree size and care, as well as the development of wood. With the creation of « Gardens of tomorrow », I put my deep convictions at the service of the life of soils and ecosystems. Often catalogued « green » in my beginnings, today people call because they seek this vision and this benevolent look on the living.
I have often had the opportunity to confront different situations and experience a panel of gardening techniques and landscape developments. Agroecology and permaculture have been valuable tools for me to adapt projects to the different conditions encountered. Today the company has become a SCOP, is able to offer living, robust and resilient gardens, much less sensitive to climatic hazards.
But what the IPCC is planning for the next few decades forces us to go further and impose a challenge.
In this time of profound change, we are facing great challenges in maintaining our sustainable activity and in helping our projects to become ever more responsive.
The United States, like most countries around the world, is facing climate change. Some states more than others, with a significant acceleration. The size of the country, the diversity of climates and socio-economic contexts offer opportunities for observation and a wide variety of situations.
It was in this state of mind, both curiosity, research and sharing, that we approached this trip and went to meet the actors in horticulture, gardening and landscaping in the United States.
This site is the continuity of this project, and the first articles are the result of our meetings and getaways in this immense country. Other more local topics will also be discussed in the near future, but as we speak, the United States is facing one of the most serious democratic crises in its history. The messages and images we receive through certain media are far from representing all North Americans and what they live on every day. It seemed to me important to start this series of articles to highlight these people.
