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Fleurs Locales at the European Researchers’ Night
On September 24, the ‘Fleurs Locales’ project participated in the European Researchers’ Night thanks to CBMA, a Portuguese partner belonging to UMinho, a university that conducts regional, national and international research. It is a research unit that integrates researchers with experience in functional plant biology, botany and ecology. Its researchers collaborate with stakeholders in municipalities, environmental agencies and companies.
Plantations start on the various pilot farms
‘Fleurs Locales’ promotes the restoration of biodiversity through local seeds, mobilizing actors from three countries: Spain, France and Portugal. To ensure realistic results of this research, fieldwork is carried out with pilot farms whose public and private owners want to solve certain problems using native seeds, for example, vegetation cover, restoration of ecosystems, areas damaged by fires, improvement of ecosystem services, among others.
Fleurs Locales in Agrotec, a reference magazine in Portugal
Reaching our target audience is essential for the development of the project. To this end, the sectoral media is a great ally, as it brings together an audience already interested in these issues. This is the case with the ‘Fleurs Locales’ strategy, which, although still in its infancy, has already gained the attention of industry media. Such is the case of Agrotec, a leading magazine in Portugal, which has dedicated an extensive article to the project that you can see here, on page 16.
Going out to the field to collect seeds. the origin of Fleurs Locales
The summer months are high season for seed collection. It’s the perfect time to go out into the field to collect and find native species, which are the origin of our Fleurs Locales project to fill degraded spaces with flowers and create biodiversity. In the three countries that make up this project (France, Spain and Portugal), we go out into the field to monitor the states of maturity of certain species of flora, and we do the collection almost always manually, with our own hands. Then it’s time to clean the seed and store it in dry places to ensure its preservation.
Fleurs Locales participates in Greenfest, the largest sustainability event in Portugal
Fleurs Locales was present at Greenfest, Portugal’s largest sustainability movement, which was held between 28 and 30 May 2021, in Braga. António Teixeira was in charge of presenting the project at this landmark event.
France, Spain and Portugal join forces to fill degraded spaces with flowers
A seed is much more than just the origin of a plant, a flower or a food. A seed is the beginning of life and is capable of significantly influencing the recovery of degraded soil to the point of converting it into a living space capable of offering an entire ecosystem. These seeds can be used in the most diverse places, as they offer a varied mosaic of possibilities from the gutters of train tracks to the tree pits that we see on our sidewalks, neglected gardens, abandoned urban and peri-urban spaces, vineyard crops, olive groves, pastures, various infrastructures. All these places, if they are degraded, can be filled with life thanks to indigenous flowers.
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