Documentary and exhibition on transhumance, wool workshop and guided tours of the orchard garden

Name: Documentary and exhibition on transhumance, wool workshop and guided tours of the orchard garden
Start: 2023-09-15T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardin-verger conservatoire

An exhibition on the theme of transhumance by Jean-Louis Abbadi, artist, will be present at the garden-orchard conservatory from Friday 15 and throughout the weekend.

15 - 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

8 € guided tours. Film: free entry. Wool course: 100 €/adults/2 days. Free exhibition and free visits. Free -14 years. Free entry. On registration for the course, on «HelloAsso».

Registration

Register / book: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/conservatoire-des-legumes-anciens-du-bearn/evenements/16-17-09-atelier-de-travail-artisanal-de-la-laine

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An exhibition on the theme of transhumance by Jean-Louis Abbadi, artist, will be present at the conservatory orchard garden from Friday 15 and throughout the weekend.
Film Screening:
Come and discover the documentary "Itineraries of Bergers: Transhumance between the Pyrenees and the plains of Gascony" by Didier Peyrusque and Vanessa Doutreleau. By criss-crossing the itineraries and lifestyles of the shepherds transhumant between the Pyrenees and the Landes de Gascogne, this film reveals a little-known and yet founding reality of the history of this region.

Friday 15 September at 6pm
Free entry
Workshop "Au fil de la toison":
Accompanied by a local artist, participate in an introductory course to the transformation of Pyrenean wool.
Discover the exciting world of handmade wool. During the course, learn how to sort a Pyrenean sheep fleece, wash and wring the fibers and then carder them. Then, initiation to spinning on wheel or felting of your choice. You will leave with your creation.
Saturday and Sunday from 9.30 am to 6 pm
Registration on the HelloAsso platform
Self-guided visit:
Visitors can stroll through the garden and orchard and discover the garden-orchard conservatory. Interpretation tables and sound terminals as well as documents accompany the visitors.
Saturday and Sunday: all day
Tour:
Discover the garden-orchard and the plant heritage. During the visits, the guide will discuss the history «of the relationship between humans and plants over the centuries».
Saturday and Sunday: 10am – 2pm – 4:30pm
On-site registration

About the location

Jardin-verger conservatoire

3 bis route du bois, 64510 Assat

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

It is in a historic market-gardening area, the plain of Pau, that the association of the Conservatoire des Légumes Anciens du Béarn -CLAB- became in a few years, a showcase and centre of excellence in the fields of cultivated biodiversity in the fields of market gardening and arboriculture. The cultivated site of the CLAB, with an area of 6500 m², has the particularity of combining in the same place, a vegetable garden and an orchard hence its name of "garden-orchard".
* the vegetable garden presents collections of rare varieties of vegetables, medicinal, aromatic and tinctorial plants. More than 500 species and/or varieties make up these collections. A 20m² pond hosts a very rich flora and fauna; it is a place of observation and permanent wonder.
* The orchard, on the other hand, is made up of about a hundred fruit trees, including about seventy apple trees of old local varieties. A fruit hedge with multiple functions encircles the plot.
From an ecological point of view, the garde