LOCAL TREE PLANTING
PLANTING AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE AND PLANTING WITH LOCAL SPECIES, COUNTRY TREES BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PRESERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS.
For several years now, the City of Rennes has been planting several thousand plants each year during development or urban renewal operations with Yves Rocher employees, with the aiḿ́ of involving local players (residents, associations, businesses) in the preservation of biodiversitý́ and their living environment. The planting activity, with the Foundation and the Yves Rocher Brand takes place on the Prévalaye site and has resulted in a work site planting around 1,500 trees and shrubs per planting to create a bocage woodland. Around 25 species were planted, most of them with the ‘local plant’ label: black cherry, wild cherry, hawthorn, hornbeam, chestnut, elder, oak, dogwood, field maple, hazelnut, ash, etc.
The Marathon Vert Rennes School of Business team and volunteers are on hand for the planting.
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SINCE 2016, THE GREEN MARATHON HAS WANTED ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE YVES ROCHER FOUNDATION TO RESULT IN A LOCAL PLANTING PROJECT IN ONE OF THE 8 COMMUNES THAT THE GREEN MARATHON HAS PASSED THROUGH IN PREVIOUS EDITIONS.
In 2010, the Yves Rocher Foundation entered into a partnership with Afac-Agroforesteries. Since then, Afac-Agroforesteries has mobilised more than 200 hedgerow and field tree planters around this programme. Its immediate capacity for action in the field covers the whole of France.
The type of planting carried out by the field operators is extremely varied and characteristic of particular landscapes: hedges (low, on slopes, double), copses, tall orchards, inter-parcel planting, tree lanes, isolated trees, etc.
These varied tree forms can be applied to a wide range of planting themes, depending on the issues at stake in the area in question: re-establishing bocage continuity, encouraging crop auxiliaries, combating the blurring of rural landscapes, protecting plots of land for crops or livestock, combating erosion, etc.
16 November 2017
Wednesday 16 November saw the planting of the orchard at Bois de l'Andume in the commune of Pacé. This planting consists of planting local varieties of apples and pears. This wooded area was opened to the public in early 2018 and attached to the Bon Pasteur park, which is much frequented by Pacé residents. The Green Marathon team was joined by the commune of Pacé, Afac-Agroforesteries, the Yves Rocher Institut de France Foundation and volunteers.
11 march 2016
On 11 March 2016, the Green Marathon wanted its partnership with the Yves Rocher Foundation and Yves Rocher to culminate in a local planting project in one of the 8 towns crossed by the Green Marathon. Planting as close as possible and planting with local species, country trees, because they are the ones that contribute to the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystems. So on 11 March 2016, the commune of Pacé hosted the tree planting: planting a hedgerow of 1,000 to 1,500 plants on the D288 road.
Nearly 100 volunteers took part in the planting, all in good humour.
