Réseau National des

Jardins de Cocagne

Le Réseau Cocagne

Siège social, adresse postale et accueil téléphonique :

2 Grande rue, 25220 CHALEZEULETél. : 03 81 21 21 10 – Fax : 03 81 47 42 58

Antenne de Paris :

21, rue du Val de Grâce, 75005 PARISTél. : 01 43 26 37 84 – Fax : 01 43 26 42 95

E.Mail : rc@reseaucocagne.asso.frSite : www.reseaucocagne.asso.fr

« Jardins de Cocagne » 

The « jardins de cocagne » are organic market gardens which employ socially and professionally excluded people. Getting those excluded people back to work as well as giving them a certain amount of support allows them to gain more confidence in themselves and their professional future and to find their place in society.

In order to ensure the financial stability of the Gardens, the products are sold every week in the shape of a basket of seasonal vegetables to individual yearly subscribers.

Organic market gardens for professional and social inclusion in the context of a sustainable and a united development of the territories

« Jardins de Cocagne »

History 1991 – Creation of the first « Jardin de Cocagne », by the association Julienne Javel in Chalezeule (close to Besançon)

1996 à 1999 – By helping the creation of Jardins de Cocagne, the number of garden increase from 20 to 45

1999 – The « jardins » share the same value based on a charter and create a network : the « Réseau Cocagne »

2008 – 100 “Jardins de Cocagne” are in activity throughout France and include over 16 000 people (gardeners being reintegrated, permanent employees, consumers members, volonteers, partners, project managers…).

Réseau Cocagne « cultivons la solidarité »

“Head of network” of the Insertion by Economical Activity sector (IAE), the Cocagne network is a national organisation which includes all the “Jardins de Cocagne” and hopes to expand into Europe and eventually encompass other structures working in the same spirit respecting quality charter.

Its main tasks are :

Spread, advise and accompany the heads of new “Jardin de Cocagne” projects

Dynamise the network by sharing experience between the existing gardens and further improve the professionalism of the Gardens’ managing teams

Represent and communicate, toward all the actors involved in the gardens.