For a weekend, Hélios was the scene of “Forest and Health”, an event initiated by Thierry Thévenin, which included around twenty conferences, field workshops and walks, as well as exhibitions, games and shows. .

Nature How about putting down roots near Mérinchal (Creuse) this weekend?

The quality of the participants in this very diverse program made it possible for each event to be sold out and to welcome many visitors from neighboring departments or from much more distant departments, happy to discover the local riches of an environment still preserved. The cul-de-sac of the tortuous and authentic village of Marlanges, situated on the border of Creuse and Puy-de-Dôme, had never seen such prosperity and effervescence.

The trees of the cities come to reforest the land

On Saturday morning, the Hautes Combrailles had scratched their frost-curled windscreens for the first time. On the horizon, white-headed Sancy shone behind the flickering pinwheels, and the north wind shook the still-green foliage. At the beginning of the “Semons une forêt” workshop, led by the landscape artist Emmanuelle Bouffé, the good mood was awakened by the contact with the newcomers.

The trainees first selected seeds provided by the facilitator to build an assortment to plant at home including Larzac acorns and Canadian walnuts collected by Emmanuelle Bouffé.

on the Ile de la Cite in Paris.

Plantations that are monitored

Reforesters of all generations then, wheelbarrow in mind, won a plot of land on the Chemin de Gros Bois. Cheerful and sheltered from the wind, they sowed black alders, better known as verge, pedunculate oaks, chestnuts, walnut trees and various shrubs in a happy working atmosphere full of questions, advice and experiences in the field.

Intrigued by their horticultural action, the seed buryers played overtime to complete their plantings. Some actors of this solidarity operation towards the planet have promised to monitor the evolution of the forest and why not to complete it in a next outing.