Environment Sustainable development
C'est plus qu'un jardin
2021
Sous-titres : Français Espagnol Roumain Anglais Allemand Arabe
With the help of Jean-Martin Fortier and Dany Bouchard, two families discover the joys and challenges of self-sufficiency.
Environment | Sustainable development
Episode 1
23 min
Setting an example
It's spring and Caroline and Jonathan are delighted to find earthworms in their kitchen garden. Édith and Emmanuel discover the possibilities offered by their city plot.
Episode 2
23 min
Reducing waste
Édith and Emmanuel are trying to move towards a zero waste lifestyle. Caroline and Jonathan prepare for the new season in their kitchen garden and collect the ash trees that have been cut down on their land.
Episode 3
23 min
New projects
Jean-Martin sets Caroline and Jonathan a new challenge. Édith and Emmanuel want to attract insects and pollinators by replacing their lawn with a flower meadow.
Episode 4
23 min
Making it with your own hands
Édith and Emmanuel continue their move towards a zero waste lifestyle and repair things rather than throwing them away. Caroline and Jonathan agree an exchange with their neighbours which gives them extra space for their kitchen garden
Episode 5
23 min
Taking time to take a break
Caroline and Jonathan decide to try their hand at aquaponics. Édith and Emmanuel contribute to a carbon offset programme and head to Beloeil for a mid-season review.
Episode 1
23 min
A new start
Véronique Claveau and Bryan Audet begin the adventure of growing their own food, with plenty of advice from Édith and Dany. The latter also discover where the Sacrés-Coeurs de Saint-Bruno Academy school is planning to create its future educational garden.
Episode 2
23 min
To work!
The Claveau-Audet family builds a cold frame and makes the most of its daylilies by offering them to neighbours. The team at the Sacrés-Coeurs Academy makes a compost wormery, strips off the grass from the kitchen garden area and Édith reveals her hydroponics project.
Episode 3
23 min
Hands in the soil
The Claveau-Audet family join in "no mow May" and plant clover. Véronique makes her dream come true by enlarging the kitchen garden. The Academy pupils begin their day of planting with Dany, despite the rain.
Episode 4
23 min
It's all coming to life!
There's plenty growing in the Claveau-Audet garden! The family continues planting and discovers wine cap mushrooms. The temperatures are finally high enough to allow the schoolchildren to plant the vegetables that they will later use to make their own pasta sauce.
Episode 5
23 min
Grow, grow, grow!
The Academy pupils get good and muddy as they continue their work in the garden. The Claveau-Audet family are planting strawberries in containers and, with Édith, offer plants to an organisation in Terrebonne.
With the help of Jean-Martin Fortier and Dany Bouchard, two families discover the joys and challenges of self-sufficiency.
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