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From May 5 to 6 November 2007, the House of the tool and Thinking Workers will host an exhibition on the theme of medieval garden, according to the plans of the abbey of St. Gallen. This is a comprehensive reflection on today's society both in the upgrading of gardens and plants older than boosting trades landscapers and gardeners.
Set in a Renaissance Hotel, in the heart of Troyes, the House of the tool, housed in the Hotel Mauroy, has become a repository of the history of trades and technology through its unique collection of tools and pounds. La Maison de l'tool has become an important resource centre for all those who question the past to better prepare for the future. It has a collection of more than 10000 pieces, tools known as "shaping" Hand dating from the 19th and 18 centuries. Initiated by Paul FELLER from 1958 to 1978 - 1953 for the books - the collection is developed and managed by the Companions du Devoir since 1969. The tools are presented in showcases and are divided by gender, profession or function. In this set of tools, there is a library that preserves nearly 35000 books trades, technology, the transmission of knowledge or the working life.
The House of Tool and Thinking worker wants the general public and schoolchildren to conservation and the re-development of production plants medieval. These plants are both steeped in history and secrets. Initiated last year with the exhibition "garden medieval metaphor of paradise", this second edition is devoted to the garden according to the plan hortus ideal of the abbey of St. Gallen. The plan of St. Gallen does not deliver accurate representation of a garden, it confines itself to locate and provide the overall shape occupied this space in the monastery. It differs, however, several specialized areas, probably inherited tradition of the rational organization of cultures described by the Roman scholar Varro (116-27 BC.) To the villa rustica. In addition cloister garden of the small paddocks of medicinal plants, herbularius, the orchard to the cemetery, viridarium, and the vegetable garden, hortus. Although of different sizes, and the hortus herbularius are both divided into regular rooms. And these parterres enclosed by small mounds of earth, are lined with passages, it is likely that this provision was intended to facilitate drainage and irrigation.
The garden is the largest with about 200 m2 of surface. Its ten-eight rectangular flowerbeds aligned two rows are bordered by the home gardener and the various providers of chicken manure. They cultivates herbs and roots, ie plants with edible or aerial part, the underground part: salads and vegetables, onion, celery, lettuce, radishes, leeks, garlic, parsley, parsnips, or beet.
With the active partnership of the Department of green spaces in the city of Troyes and Botanical Garden Marnay sur Seine, the House of the tool and Thinking Workers will present the reconstruction of a garden, hortus, according to the evocation Plan of St. Gallen. The Botanical Garden has prepared Marnay, since the end of the previous exhibition, seeds and plants which will be divided into the plessis. The green spaces have them, the task since the same time, to find, but mostly to make them flourish, to prepare to put in the ground all, early May for the installation of the exhibition.
This year, the exhibition lasts until November for the simple reason that the garden will reach its peak in the fall, it takes time to grow and to demonstrate a variety of vegetables that have blooming or flowering desynchronized from each other. It will be a living garden to be harvested regularly.
Saint Bernard and the Cistercian monks from the edge of the Dawn became the foundation of a cultural renaissance, but also economic in the north of France. County of Troyes was at the forefront of discovery pharmacological, chemical or alchemical, but also techniques. A science garden that rediscovers the 21st century and that is the basis of a particular economic flourishing. An economy that is on the front line about the "sustainable development".
Studying medieval plants, it is also relearn another way of living where each element is used or recycled. It also address a range of traditional trades of the forest, of course, but also dyers, tanners ...
La Maison de l'Tool, by the creation of this garden ephemeral, has tried to educate the city for its initiative to be followed and extended to other gardens of the city. It was also an opportunity to welcome the new corporation Companions, Landscape, which has very actively participated in the installation of the garden.
2006 - Garden medieval garden, the taste of Saint-gall, the hortus the garden ...
Potager The word "soup", which means cooked food in pots. In its ancient sense of vegetables to the pot, the soup was "garden", "vegetable" to appoint the cook specializes in such preparations.
The name olera (holera), olus, which we have already spoken, will be used until the 9th-10th centuries to refer to the vegetable plants themselves, not those of the garden itself, but those who cook the pot (on Also potherbes) and forming soups and sauces. From the eleventh century, many replace the Latin words, as ierbes, courtillage, ortillage, grasses, herbs, vegetables herbs, vegetables, roots, which will nominate as salads, vegetables and herbs. Note that rather sour vegetables or acres were called aigrum (esgrum): onion, garlic, watercress, horseradish, shallots, leeks, turnips, cabbage, and so on. The vegetable word itself comes from the Latin legumen (legere: pick), which meant our current pulses, these plants whose seed pods are edible, such as lentils, chickpeas, peas, beans, which were the staples of our prehistory. This became legumen lesgum, legum or ileum, vegetable and finally to 1530.
Following the example of other monastic gardens, the garden has evolved in history, composed of plants indigenous or collected since ancient times and reconstructed over time depending on the influences, and climate patterns, which cause the introduction new plants in the garden or in some cases, loss of interest or abandonment of some others.
The garden will include several sections - vegetables, roots, potherbes (or herbs to pot - to soups), cucurbits, cereals, spices and condiments. Some names of the plants that we can discover: jarousses, mongette, lentils, horseradish, chervi, raiponce, parsnips, cabbage (vegetable "star" in the Middle Ages!), Cucumber, melon, purslane, purple, spelt, millet, lovage, ache, coriander, caraway .)
In addition to establishing a vegetable garden in the courtyard of the mansion, the House of Tool and Thinking Workers will offer several insights into the garden. We will receive tools Bernard SOLON, last taillandier of France, which won last year's prize for the "intelligence" of the hand, the Foundation Bettencourt-Schueller, which will set more than twenty tools he himself realized. Thanks to the participation of Aube museum of the history of education - MAHE - we also show textbooks from the late 19th century And the early 20th century With a variety of teaching materials created by teachers by 1900. We also discover the technique of plessage (making plessis) and the various applications of it.
The literature on gardens, plants and other architectures of nature, are on sale at the bookshop of the House of Tool and Thinking worker among the titles being available ships. Others are available at the library by appointment. A catalogue book on the garden will be published for the occasion. The book of last year is still available.
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