2016 edition, Permanent art work
La Cantine du Voyage
The Cantine Vegetable garden

When urban hostility is transformed into a plant island in the heart of the docks…

Installed in the continuation of the Cantine since 2016, the notion of a vegetable garden is being reinvented as urban market gardening.

Originally conceived by Nantes-based market gardener Olivier Durand, this is a pioneering urban agriculture site in France that experiments with growing vegetables and other edible plants on a former asphalt car park.

On more than 1,000 m², including 600 m² of cultivated land, it produces several types of salad, the famous Chantenay carrots, runner beans, spaghetti squash, edible flowers , fruit and many herbs such as basil, chives, lemon balm and many others.

Since its installation on the Quai des Antilles in 2016, the Cantine’s vegetable garden has aroused curiosity. Many visitors to the Cantine or, more broadly, to the Parc des chantiers regularly ask the teams of market gardeners for more information about the crops and techniques used.

An exchange of know-how, knowledge and skills between the countryside and the city. Agriculture as a topical, social issue, which resonates strongly in the city of market gardening.

In 2022, in order to best respond to these requests, we have chosen to hire a gardener within Le Voyage à Nantes, Olga Barazer.

Born into a family of market gardeners, Olga studied design and worked in the digital sector before returning to the land to grow delicious vegetables. She will be present throughout the summer, three days a week, to care for, maintain and harvest the products of the garden while providing “cultural and vegetable” mediation for the public.

It’s in the Cantine !

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