activity - Relaxation - Resource locations
Canteen 209 is a third-place association Plant FactoryIts main objective is the promotion of healthy and sustainable food, favoring short supply chains.
An educational garden consisting of a living soil vegetable garden and a very soon-to-be orchard opens the way to putting agroecological principles into practice.
Workshops for gathering/processing edible or medicinal wild plants are offered.
Conferences or screenings can provide food for thought, and concerts, open stages or themed evenings create connections.
The Cantine 209 association contributes to the daily life of the third place Usine Végétale through its various actions.
HEALTHY AND LOCAL FOOD
- The Café and Restaurant Associations are open for events such as training sessions, workshops, cultural events, and third-party venue rentals. Emphasis is placed on high-quality local produce while respecting the environment.
- The Market Gardening stage, relying on a network of identified local producers, facilitates access by offering local seasonal products and bulk products depending on availability.
NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
- The Vegetable Garden Papotage is a sharing of knowledge about vegetable gardening. The vegetable garden in the third place is managed in living soil and is inspired by the ethics of permaculture while remaining on a human scale.
- The Seeds to Swap are at the entrance to the third place, they are there all year round.
- Nature Walks are discovery workshops on edible wild plants and living nutrition in our garden to take a step towards autonomy.
- Participatory construction sites, also known as solidarity construction sites, collaborative construction sites, or shared construction sites, are events during which people come together to work together, voluntarily and in a friendly atmosphere. The program includes: pallet dismantling, design and construction of a sorting bar.
WELL-BEING and SOCIAL LIFE
- Medi-Yoga is a form of yoga built around gentle, flexible exercises combined with breathing, relaxation, and meditation techniques. Medi-Yoga is a practice of stress relief, relaxation, and serenity.
- Wellness Massage is a relaxing treatment performed using the hands, thumbs, and sometimes even the forearms. Different techniques can be used: effleurage, friction, palpate-roll, kneading, or tapotement.
- Ayurveda is a centuries-old practice often described as digestive medicine. It is practiced during a consultation, in a cooking workshop, or on a massage table.
- Music lessons are offered to begin learning a musical instrument or to improve your skills: piano, guitar or bass.
- The Parents & Children Workshop is a fun workshop to strengthen the bond between parents and children with easy and fun games to share a joyful and soothing moment to reproduce at home, rituals to develop a caring family interaction, a source of self-confidence and confidence in others, support activities to learn to observe, listen, feel and share emotions.
- The Handmade Workshop is a manual and creative activity: designing and making simple textile objects according to each person's desires and wishes. A time for exchange, sharing, and passing on know-how and creation: sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet, decorative painting, etc.
- Personal development is individual support to regain self-confidence and feel good.
- Access to local rights involves supporting administrative procedures.
- The Women's Circle is a time for free discussion and to meet in complete privacy: a short Zen assessment, body weather, reading of a short text about a moment of joy or sorrow to share, without judgment, without expected response, just in listening to the moment.
