The document outlines a project to rehabilitate a botanical garden in the Saint-Gilles neighborhood. The key points of the project are to: 1) Renovate the house into an organic cafe that sources from the greenhouses and local farms. 2) Use the greenhouses for responsible farming to supply the cafe and sell organic food baskets. 3) Hold specific events like a monthly farmers market and annual food festival to promote sustainable food and bring the neighborhood together.

2. LE PROJET :
Réhabiliter le jardin botanique et en faire un lieu de rencontre entre les habitants et les étudiants. Ce sera l’occasion de sensibiliser le
quartier de
Saint-Gilles sur la question de l’alimentation durable.
POINTS-CLÉS :
1. La maison
1
2. Les serres
3. Le jardin
2
3
100
m

3. 1. RENOV
ATING THE HOUSE INTO AN ORGANIC CAFE-BRASSERIE.
A café-restaurant where you can both have drinks or organic
dishes,
which products come from the greenhouses and local
ranchers. There’s an open kitchen for more transparency.
Prices are student-friendly.
Here the atmosphere encourage meetings and discussions.
A place which promote projects for
sustainable food and/or neighborhood life
providing:
. flyers about social innovations
. a display wall for classifieds.
The restaurant works in partnership with Forem/CPAS and
promotes integration jobs.
L E
J’IRAI
LAVER
CHEZ
VOUS
RECYCLE
?
RECUP’BOOK
S
TABL
ES
DE
S G II L T
A N
L ES
Une
grandmère
pour
dîner
OPERA
TION
CAN
APE
?
Jeune étudiant
donne cours
d’informatique
Table à donner. venir
récupérer à
l’adress
e
Recherchons baby- :
sitter

4. 2. USING THE GREENHOUSES FOR RESPONSIBLE FARMING.
The restaurant and the greenhouses are run by the same
association and work together.
RESTAURANT
waste for
customers
compost
fruits and
vegetable
s
GREENHOUSES
volunteers
organic food
baskets
walkers/visitors
BOTANICAL
GARDEN
The greenhouses are run by
volunteers
(residents and students). This encourages knowledge transmission,
human development, and makes
closer social relations in the
neighborhood.
V
olunteers share the products grown or
receive
meal vouchers for the restaurant. Money
from sold organic food baskets is used for
operating expenses.

5. 3. SPECIFIC EVENTS PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE FOOD TAKE PLACE IN THE GARDEN, THEY LIVEN UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
One time a month, a local farmers’ marke
takes
place in the garden, the greenhouses also
sell its own fruits and vegetables.
The greenhouses are open to public,
where
you can (re)discover all aspects of
responsi- ble farming.
As EAT! food festival (Bois de La Cambre), the
garden
will host an annual festival concerning sustainable
food and bringing together various stakeholders :
organic restaurants, local producers, social
innovators ...