This upcoming Saturday, June 11th, Sunday, June 12th, and Monday, June 13th at Jardins Albert 1er, more than 100 exhibitors will be on hand to offer the anticipated 40,000 visitors a wide range of products and techniques of all kinds, respecting the natural cycles of plants, animals, and the environment.
Here are 10 good reasons not to miss the now traditional date in Nice with organic culture in all its forms.
Why go?
1) Shopping for Organic Products:
With local producers for fruits and vegetables.
Cheeses, honey, and olive oil, why not try organic duck, not to mention delicious artisanal organic bread.
2) Tasting organic beverages:
Organic wines, craft beers, flower jellies, and syrups.
3) Dressing organic:
Everything is an excuse to wear clothes made of linen, organic cotton, or hemp, from cultivated crops. Don’t forget hemp accessories like bags, clothes, shoes.
4) Building organic:
It’s about having the reflex to insulate well with heat pumps, photovoltaic solar tiles, under tile thermal insulation (roofless houses), with cotton wool, hemp, wood wool, and using mineral paint.
5) Lunching Organic:
The organic buffet-bar is entrusted to the expert hands of Annie-Claire and Alexandre Lamand, from “La Bastide Gourmande”, restaurateurs whose cuisine, certified “AB”, gives each product the same importance to make meals a fireworks of flavors and colors (menus at 16 and 18€).
6) Attending conferences and workshops:
Some themes that will be developed: Plant color therapy, Nature and Beauty, emotional harmonization with Dr. Edward Bach’s flower essences, how to act against muscle tension, Ecology, Ethnology, Well-being, intelligently hydrating the body. As for the workshops, they will allow you to test flower tastes, appreciate the cuisine of Toques Brûlées, or why not: participate in the bio cosmetic making workshop using essential oils.
7) Adopting an Organic attitude:
It’s knowing how to choose and read labels well, but it’s also making some preparations yourself with, for example: bread or plant milk machines and using a sprouter.
Have the reflex: Organic essential oils for their benefits, as there are some available to assist us at every moment of life.
8) Organic cosmetology:
It’s a reflex: use organic cosmetics with traceable, controlled, certified origins, and composed of products whose life cycle and environment have been respected. Conventional cosmetics often contain less than 1% active ingredients, while organic cosmetics sometimes contain up to 95%!
9) Specialties or curiosities:
Seaweed tartare, diabetic chocolates, sweetening without sugar with stevia, doing antioxidant cures with goji, mate, or Rooibos tea, a plant rich in polyphenols without caffeine from the Cape region… Try Bear’s Garlic or garlic without its drawbacks. For our animal friends: organic dog shampoos with fresh donkey milk. To try: “Head Balance” oral gymnastics device or bile soap for cooked stains!
10) It’s so simple and it’s free!
Some figures:
The organic farming area represents about 8.6% of the department’s useful agricultural area (2009 figures), which exceeds the Grenelle goals.
At the end of 2010, the Alpes Maritimes department had 144 certified organic farms and conversions to organic, an increase of more than 40% compared to 2009 in the areas.
The Var plain counts 31 “organic” producers for an exploited area of more than 40 hectares.
7% of French people eat organic every day, approximately 4,606,000 French people.
4 out of 10 French people buy “organic” products at least once a month.
8 out of 10 French people have a positive opinion about organic.
