Botanical walk: «Nourishing and medicinal trees: Cistercians chose water and forest»

Name: Balade botanique : «Arbres nourriciers et médicinaux : les cisterciens ont choisi l'eau et la forêt»
Start: 2022-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Porterie de l'abbaye de la Crête

Enjoy a botanical walk with Alexandra Henrissat, herbalist, to learn to recognize and memorize local plants and trees, medicinal and nourishing.

Dimanche 18 septembre 2022, 16h00Passé

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The forest has always allowed Cistercians to live in autarky, providing them with herbs, roots, fruits and medicinal plants.
Around the walls of the fence, Alexandra will teach you to harvest their generous and full of sap.
In this early autumn, to close the season of botanical walks, fruits will be in the spotlight.
Back in the garden, Alexandra will give you a historical and cultural presentation, allowing you to learn more about their evolution during the season.
During the 3rd hour, everyone will be able to make their recipe from their harvest.

À propos du lieu

Porterie de l'abbaye de la Crête

1 chemin de la Crête, 52700 Bourdons-sur-Rognon

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

The "Crete" is an ancient abbey founded in 1121, second daughter of the Cistercian abbey of Morimond, granddaughter of Cîteaux. The abbey had to be completely rebuilt at the beginning of the 18th century. It underwent significant architectural changes. After the Revolution, the imposing abbey and the cloister were destroyed: we see only the traces of it in front of the Porterie.
The portery (1715-1730) constitutes the contact with the outside, the place where the daily workers were paid and distributed weekly bread to the poor, it is in itself a characteristic building of the eighteenth century and highlights the charm and serenity of the site, purely Cistercian. Its dimensions and refined architecture give the idea of the importance of the abbey.
The pretty bridge over the Rognon, facing the gate, is from the eighteenth century (the gate and the bridge are classified as Historical Monuments).
Very degraded during the last fifty years, it is the object of preservation work and a stone