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Jardin Paysan
Gardening and self sufficiency in France.
Gardening, gardens, home grown produce and seasonal food - for those who love the pace of life in rural France

Welcome to Jardin Paysan - a website for gardeners and garden lovers in France. Whether your passion be potagers, parterres or poulalliers we hope there will be something of interest to you.
The website has a blog, monthly gardening updates and occasional newsletters - Life in le Jardin and The Edible Garden. Subscribe and these will be delivered to your inbox so that you remain up to date with the French gardening year as it unfolds.
We can also help you realise your dream French garden, grown your own fruit and vegetables and care for the environment, even if you have never gardened before. Contact us via the website to discuss how we can coach you in the skills you want to refine or help you with your planting plans and garden layout.
Meanwhile - read on to join the website's editor, Sue Adams, in her own garden where she and her husband grow their own fruit and vegetables, visit local markets, fetes and places of interest and try to live as sustainably as they can as part of their own French adventure.
Fruit and vegetables, trees and flowers, hens and bees, seasonal recipes and ideas for living a simpler life in rural France.
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