A not-to-be-missed event!
Held every year (or every two years) since 2006, the event attracts between 4,000 and 6,000 visitors over the course of a weekend, with a market-forum featuring some 80 exhibitors (Simples union producers from all regions, associations, schools, professional training centers, specialized media and various organizations dedicated to aromatic and medicinal plants).gions, associations, schools, vocational training centers, specialized media and various organizations dedicated to aromatic and medicinal plants). The Fête des Simples will be touring in 2024 on 3 dates, in Pays-de-Loire, Centre Val de Loire & Nouvelle Aquitaine. On October 4, 5 and 6, producers of aromatic and medicinal plants (PPAM) will set up shop in the heart of the lake on the emblematicÎle de Vassivière. The festival is organized in conjunction with the Limousin Massif, which organizes the “Summer of Plants” every summer. They can be eaten, cured and perfumed. Plants have a thousand virtues!
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Img 0513Where does water come from?
This year’s theme is water. Water is undoubtedly the primary element linking the three regions where this festival will take place, through the hydrographic network of the Loire watershed. Against a global backdrop of climate change and tense usage patterns, water management is an issue of particular concern to plant growers. The question of water and plants will therefore be explored through a program of conferences, in order to share observations, visions, experiences and also collective practices in the presence of researchers, experts, elected representatives and artists, with the aim of sharing these subjects with the general public.
