The morning ends with a joyful straw fight.
Schoolchildren from the village of Alluets-le-Roi (Yvelines) found a unique playmate this Thursday with Stéphane Plaza.
The favorite TV host of the French is used to antics in his real estate shows but it is to take up a serious challenge that he has put on his boots and gloves this time.
On the initiative of the association Des enfants et des Arbres, partner of the M 6 group as part of its third Green Week, they are there to plant 250 shrubs in a farm in the village.
A response to the ecological and climatic emergency.
"25,000 kilometers of hedges must be planted each year by 2050 to achieve the objectives of the Paris agreements, when only 3,000 kilometers are currently planted and 10,000 continue to be uprooted, specifies Marie-France Barrier, founder from the Association.
At a time when agribashing weakens and stigmatizes an already precarious agricultural world, we wish to participate in the reconciliation between civil society and those who feed it.
Children are the citizens of tomorrow and the best ambassadors of our cause.
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"Capital to take care of our planet"
“It is obviously essential to take care of our planet, abounds Stéphane Plaza, who grew up in the middle of plants, his mother being a florist.
Being an actor alongside children is priceless.
For the past two years, the system has invited thousands of school and college students to plant trees with farmers in their department, so that together they become actors in the agro-ecological transition.
Guillaume Gousseau rubs his hands on it.
This plantation financed by private funds saved him nearly 20,000 euros.
At 27, the son of the agricultural property started raising laying hens in the spring of 2020.
Guillaume Gousseau, 27, has started raising 2,000 hens on the family farm in Alluets-le-Roi.
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“A childhood dream” for the one who was going to pick up the eggs in the henhouse as a child.
It was to protect and develop the space reserved for his 2,000 poultry that he applied for the device.
“Here, on the village plateau, there is a lot of wind and it disturbs my hens, he justifies.
These tree hedges will protect them from climatic conditions but also from predators.
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2,400 children to plant 10,000 trees this winter
In the middle of the pupils of the three classes of the primary school of the village, the young owner took part in the ecological and educational project.
"We feel the children are interested and involved, it's encouraging for our future," he says.
A documentary filmmaker committed to environmental themes, Marie-France Barrier goes further: “What if planting a tree became an obligatory step in the school career of our children?
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The operation, which will mobilize 2,400 children this winter for 10,000 trees planted, is taking place throughout France.
She will return to the Yvelines on February 15 in Bonnelles, in the Clos farm based on respect for nature and the living.
A perfect summary of the association's approach.