OSPPARIS 78W: Urban Gardening Workshop

Instructor: Audrey Strebelle

The “urban gardening” workshop is a project that aims to develop an organic urban vegetable garden in a shared garden located in a subsidized housing area.

The Falbala garden lends us a piece of land and everything is to be done! The students will start a vegetable garden that future students of the Stanford program in Paris will continue to develop. Stanford in Paris has received this small piece of land that we will need to prepare, amend, plant and maintain. We will have to create plots and study the sunshine as well as the plants that complement each other in order to create a permaculture vegetable garden. This course will allow you to learn how to start a vegetable garden in an urban environment with the challenges of sunshine, pollution and poor soil. This course will bring you to meet other volunteers who work in the Falbala garden and as well as the community that lives near the garden and cultivate together.

Several visits will be offered : the king's vegetable garden in Versailles, the botanical garden and vegetable gardens in Paris. Students will be expected to research urban crops, permaculture, and seasonal vegetables. However, this internship is above all “hands on” and interested students will have to get their hands dirty and work in the garden.

In addition to knowledge of permaculture and urban farms, this internship will allow students to improve their level of French, in particular oral comprehension of native speakers, pronunciation, vocabulary enrichment.

The purpose of this course is also to meet Parisians and get to know them around a shared garden. This internship takes place in collaboration and under the supervision of Audrey Calefas-Strebelle who accompanies you throughout this experience.

Units: 1-2 | Grading Basis: S/NC only | Component: Seminar
Category: Elective

*All courses are subject to change.