Urban Farm - BNP Paribas Real Estate
Last modified by the author on 25/01/2019 - 18:36
- Year of commitment : 2018
- Address 1 - street : ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France
- Biodiversity & Ecosystems : / Shared garden , Green roof /
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80 000 €
BNP Paribas Real Estate creates its urban farm with Mugo and Peas & Love!
At the same time laboratory space, demonstrator and place of relaxation for the collaborators, the terraces of the headquarters of BNP Paribas Real Estate in Issy-les-Moulineaux transformed into an urban farm. The objective: to develop an experimentation site aiming to provide a solution to make the city greener and meet the needs of customers, inhabitants and public authorities.
A vegetable garden, laboratory & demonstrator:
BNP Paribas Real Estate, European leader in real estate services, in collaboration with Mugo and Peas & Love, transformed the terraces of its Issy-les-Moulineaux headquarters, a urban farm on 640 m² of terraces. The company intends to experiment with different forms of urban culture in order to offer a demonstrator space and a new eco-friendly offer for its customers, investors and partners.
The two terraces are arranged in two spaces: one dedicated to the testing of rental plots and the other devoted to research and testing to find the best rooftop vegetable solutions in urban areas.
Each Peas & Love plot of 3m² houses more than 71 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and herbs and can harvest on average 30kg of production per year. This vegetable garden maintained by a "community farmers" offering local, nutritious and seasonal products to a community of subscribed collaborators, as well as an educational approach around the cycles of nature, and the link with what we eat; the fundamentals of Peas & Love. The "community farmer" (agricultural engineer) in charge of the maintenance of the plots also animates workshops of discovery of the cycles of season and maintenance of the kitchen garden, or even cooking workshops to valorize the best the products.
Progress Status
Delivered
Data Reliability
Self-declared
Funding Type
Private
Website Enterprise / Infrastructure
https://www.realestate.bnpparibas.frhttps://www.mugo.fr/
https://www.peasandlove.com/
Sustainable Development
Testimony / Feedback
Governance
CSR Department of BNP Paribas Real Estate / General Management / DET and General Management
Private Company
Sustainable Solutions
- Biodiversity :
- Citizen participation
- Proximity services
Potagers Peas&Love
Peas & Love works according to the agro-ecological principles of respect for nature and the rhythm of the seasons, in order to make cities greener, more humane and more sustainable. The company is developing the concept of "renting plots of cultivated vegetable garden" which is aimed for residents who do not have the time, the knowledge or the space to grow their vegetable garden at home.
Each farm consists of a set of three hundred plots of vegetable gardens maintained by a Community Farmer , agronomist training, which are rented to residents customers, urban farmers, through an annual subscription giving access to both the harvest on their nominative plot of local fruits and vegetables, seasonal, grown in organic production mode and sharing of common spaces and experiences through workshops and animations to be in the nature while being in the heart of the city.
Inspired by the principles of permaculture, the crops are grown organically and combining vertically and horizontally technique with no pesticides or herbicides. The plants come from local and organic incubators, and fed with water by a balanced ecosystem, with the presence of microorganisms at the root level.
By following the rhythm of the seasons, Peas & Love proposes throughout the year local and gourmet productions.