There are several initiatives in the City of Geneva enabling city-dwellers to reconnect with nature and agriculture while encouraging biodiversity. In the city centre, gardeners growing plants on their balcony or outside their building and small-scale producers keen to experiment with new varieties can obtain local seeds or organic seedlings – for the most part old varieties.
Local initiatives
Here are several local initiatives enabling budding horticulturists to obtain old varieties of seeds or organic seeds.
Semences de pays
Supported by the City through the G’Innove programme, Semences de pays selects and multiplies seeds of market gardening plant varieties, primarily drawn from local selections. It has a catalogue of seeds grown and sold in the greenhouses located in the Parc Beaulieu and at Belle-Idée.
Les Artichauts
Also benefiting from financial support from the Agenda 21 – Sustainable City department, Les Artichauts prepares organic seedlings, grown and sold as part of the agricultural activities in the Parc Beaulieu.
Pro Specie Rara
The two associations mentioned above collaborate with the Pro Specie Rara Foundation to preserve old, traditional varieties of vegetable well suited to our climate and to bring them back into fashion.
The Saint-Jean Seed bank
The Grainothèque 1203 Graines is found withe the Saint-Jean public library. The Seed Bank is a system which allows the exchange of seeds: anyone can freely deposit, take or exchange seeds.
Contact
Service Agenda 21 - Ville durable: «Nourrir la ville»
Gaétan Morel
5, rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
1204 Genève
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Article modifié le 07.03.2023 à 14:55