The Association

Partners of The Herboretum

The Association is supported by several partners who share the same values:

• The harvesting beekeepers

  Mr et Mme PIOGER have been harvesting beekeepers since 2000, with approximately 500 hives, which they move to summer pastures in the Centre region, so their bees can produce quality regional honey. They also work with farmers who produce vegetable garden seeds, setting up beehives on the plot to be pollinated. Indeed bees are necessary to obtain efficient fertilisation in flowers, healthy fruits, and thus good seed germination. In the framework of the partnerhsip with The Herboretum Association, they provide their know-how and advice in the management of an area containing a dozen beehives which they take care of, also taking part in various activities for the protection of bees.

• Actu-environnement.com :
  
  

  Press titles for professional information, specialising in Environment and Sustainable Development topics, accessible via Internet.

• The Caisse d'Epargne bank, Loire-Centre region

  One year into its creation as a regional bank, the Caisse d'Epargne bank for the Loire-Centre region has confirmed its commercial dynamics, its financial solidity, and its economic and social commitment.
  The Caisse d’Epargne Loire-Centre bank is committed and solidary, it develops its commitment further, for the benefit of general interest.
  It recently became a partner of The Herboretum by providing its support to develop projects to make the public aware of the need to protect biodiversity.

• The Cosmetic Valley
  
  

  This competitivity pole encompasses six areas in three different regions: Centre (Eure-et-Loir, Indre-et-Loire, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, south of Paris), Ile-de-France (Yvelines, Paris region) and Haute-Normandie (Eure, north-west of Paris). The Cosmetic Valley is currently the first centre of world resources for the perfume and cosmetics industries, gathering a network of companies, research centres, and training schools which are committed to a partnership philosophy focusing on innovating dynamics and conquering international markets.
  In the context of its partnership with The Herboretum, it offers a communications network for contirbutors who are likely to help protect the environment.

• Les Croqueurs de Pommes (Apple-Biters’ Association)
  
  

  Or ‘National Association for Volunteer Amateurs and the Protection of Endangered Regional Fruit Varieties’.

  This association focuses on protecting and highlighting regional fruit varieties and species, as well as sharing and transmitting knowledge on pomology and arboriculture. It was created in 1978, and counts more than fifty groups and associations throughout France, of various sizes, all inspired by the association’s philosophy, and taking part in the missions: protecting the genetic heritage of local and regional fruits, various types of information action, educating the public, editing technical works, and a trimestrial newspaper.

• Croqueurs de Pommes Terroirs Sud Gâtinais (Centre Region, South of Paris)
  
  

  This section is part of the National Croqueurs de Pommes (Apple Biters) Association. It offers The Herboretum all its know-how and advice on keeping, pruning, and grafting the Apple and Pear tree varieties on the estate. It also actively takes part in the various activities for the public.

• The French Bird-Protection League (LPO)
  
  

  The LPO aims at protecting birds and the ecosystems they depend on, in particular the fauna and flora associated, and more globally biodiversity. The LPO has been the official representer of BirdLife International in France since 1993.

• Noé Conservation

  This association aims at protecting biodiversity, through various actions on the field to preserve endangered species, and by encouraging positive attitudes for the protection of biodiversity and the environment in general. To counter the fall in the number of butterflies in France, Noé Conservation launched a ‘Butterflies & Gardens’ programme in 2006, which acts by both preserving butterflies on the field, and educating the public on the environment, in particular with the Butterflies and Gardens Observatory, an interactive science programme where the general public can count the butterflies in the gardens.

  Thanks to its partnership with the french association Noé Conservation, The Herboretum lists all the butterfly species present in its field.

  >> Discover the Butterflies Meadow

• The Pays Loire Beauce Association

  

  The Pays Loire Beauce is a union of the 40 towns of the areas of Meung sur Loire, Beaugency, Patay and Artenay. Its missions consist of helping with projects to set up services for the population, including care, sports, and culture, highlighting public areas, natural or heritage sites, activating an innovative approcah to agriculture, the environment and culture, towards creating renewed and shared rural areas, so the crafts industry and shops can be restructured.

• The Route du Blé en Beauce Organisation
  
  

  The Route du Blé was set up by the Terre de Beauce association in 2002 in the Eure-et-Loir region, south of Paris, and has now spread to the Loiret region. Its aim is to highlight the area by placing rural land, love of land, and environment-friendliness and protection in the spotlight. It supports The Herboretum and relays communication regarding all events organised on the estate.

• Orléans
  

  The town of Orléans is organising the Sustainable Development Days from 25th May to 6th June 2010.
  This sensitising event aims to convince those among the public who aren’t already aware of it, of the essential aspect of integrating sustainable development and adopting an environment-friendly day-to-day attitude; as well as sensitising the public to the various stakes of the 21st Century in terms of energy, biodiversity, waste-management and local and organic food supplies.
  The Herboretum takes part in this event by organising educational workshops for the children of the Orléans region.
  Furthermore, you can visit us on our booth, at the booth village, organised by the town of Orléans, on 29th and 30th June! We look forward to seeing you!

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The Herboretum Association is supported by specialised suppliers:

• The Conservatoire National de Rochefort-sur-mer, the horticultural CRITT (the Technological and Technical Innovations Research Centre) in Rochefort-sur-mer, Western France and ARRDHOR (the Regional Association for Horticultural Research and Development), have provided technical advice as well as many dyeing-plant seed donations.

• The Ernest Turc Foundation, in Angers, west of Paris, has specialised in cultivating bulb plants since 1869. It provided its know-how in the set-up of a large variety of plants on the site.

The Herboretum Association relies on the skills of national and local associations, and instituional organisms:

• Parcs et Jardins de la Région Centre (Parks and Gardens of the Centre Region)
  
  

  Protecting, improving, and promoting the parks and gardens of the Centre region, south of Paris, is the goal set by the members of the Association des Parcs et Jardins en Région Centre (Association of Parcs and Gardens of the Centre Region), in order to preserve historical, cultural, botanical, and landscape heritage. The Loire Valley (reaching from the Berry, Eure et Loir, Touraine regions and further) is known as the ‘Garden of France’. This fame is due to the wealth of historical and more recent creations, and of a widely varied Art garden. The result is due to the designer’s ability to create a garden with its walls, steps, water mirrors, fountains, statues and plants. The garden doors are open. Come and visit, for the first time or for more, in all seasons, along the Loire river, hidden up close to the pretigious sites of Chambord, Chenonceau, Villandry... at the heart of the Val de Loire region, registered as UNESCO World Heritage.