CHANT DU PISSENLIT

“Le chant du pissenlit” is located in the quiet village of Galinagues, situated in the department of Aude, on the plateau of Sault. It is a place of professional training, discovery and experimentation. Its purpose is to animate this place where the respect for ecology, biodiversity and human development are a daily reality. It is a farm belonging, since August 2009, to the SCA movement “Land of links” (www.terredeliens.org). It has 50 hectares, a herd of cattle, goats; as well as a backyard, a livestock building, a multipurpose room, an office, a kitchen and a cheese factory serving as a working basis. It is also equipped to receive people with physical disabilities. There is also a baker that grows its own wheat and make bread two times a week. So you can find a small “bakery” in the farm. The association’s goal is to make you participate in trainings, experiments and discoveries of cultural and agricultural activities such as : mixed farming, breeding, seeds, gardening, botany, landscape arts, green building, theatre, modeling, arts and all other activities related to the development of the human being and the protection of the environment. It allows everyone to attend trainings with personalized modules through the work done in the farm, but also through the discovery of arts and crafts. The farm offers indeed a good setting for different audiences interested in different themes : agricultural settlement projects, school, social gardens, disabled people, etc... In general, anyone who wants to learn how to live on the farm, to learn different organic and/or biodynamic techniques, or that wants to connect with a well-defined project (botany, gardening, herbs, breeding, animal traction, transformation, land art, fosterling…). So, this place offers tools to deal with the current socio-economic development. The farm was until now, a place of production since Jeannine was the head of agricultural holding during 30 years; it produced vegetables, bread, cheese… With the creation of the association, it became a place of transmission with joy and good humor. This association is agri-cultural because it uses arts such as training and expression. Therefore, it makes it possible to associate the various activities of the farm with cultural activities such as landscape arts, theatre, modeling, music and dance…