Séneçons
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Séneçons

Entre l’annuel, le bisannuel ou le vivace : les séneçons avec les chevaux c’est la galère ! Comment lutter contre les séneçons ? Pas de solution miracle en vue… et pas la peine d’espérer labourer ou éradiquer avec du désherbant en permaculture équine : mais alors quoi faire !!!! ?   couper encore et encore…

L’écosystème des orties
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The nettle ecosystem

Who does not remember a painful encounter with our friends the nettles? ... there are many varieties (30) around the world, there are 5 in France, the most common are the greater nettle (Urtica dioica , which has the particularity of being perennial), and the stinging nettle (Urtica urens, which is an annual more ...

Les aubépines et les chevaux
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Hawthorns and horses

There are two hawthorns, did you know that? Hawthorns are part of the Rosaceae family. The leaves are toothed and the branches carry spines that protect them from herbivores. They are slow growing thorny shrubs with a longevity of up to 500 years. The trunk has a brown-gray bark, scaly and cracked….