Guided tour of the King’s Vegetable Garden

Name: Guided tour of the King’s Vegetable Garden
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: ENSP - Potager du Roi

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

crédits Didier Plowy

Accompanied by a passionate guide, walk the 9 hectares of this historic production garden, a place of experimentation and training. An opportunity to understand how the site’s gardeners have been protecting, maintaining and supporting this sustainable heritage for three centuries. Cradle of landscape training in France, you will also understand how is organized this garden school in which students prepare to become landscapers.

About the location

ENSP - Potager du Roi

10 rue du Maréchal-Joffre 78000 Versailles

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Created on the site of the Potager du Roi, in Versailles, and with a history linked to horticultural education and agricultural production dating back to the seventeenth century, the École nationale supérieure de paysage was a pioneer in the definition movement of the French school of landscape. With 9 hectares in the heart of Versailles, the Potager du Roi has been a model in the evolution of agricultural and food practices in urban areas since the beginning. A masterpiece of the regular garden art known as «à la française», the site of the École nationale supérieure de paysage was created under Louis XIV to provide the king’s table with fruits and vegetables. Classified as historical monuments and Remarkable Garden, it is an integral part of the Versailles estate inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Today, the École nationale supérieure de paysage pursues a production activity focused on short circuits that respect the environment, while developing links with training, resear