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Community Gardens in Amboise – Jardins ouvriers à Amboise

photo_142_market_gardenI usually leave photos of Amboise to Stuart on Amboise Daily Photo, but I couldn’t resist this one of the very frosty community gardens on our way from the butcher in Chaumont to the Amboise market.
Normalement je laisse à Stuart de Amboise Daily Photo le soin de prendre des photos sa ville mais je n’ai pas pu résisté cette vue des jardins ouvriers sous le givre sur le trajet entre notre boucher à Chaumont et le marché d’Amboise.

5 replies on “Community Gardens in Amboise – Jardins ouvriers à Amboise”

Ils sont les jardins familiaux (ou d’oeuvriers) pas exactement les jardins maraîchers. Ils sont privés, pas commerciale, n’est ce pas?
These are allotments (community gardens) not exactly market gardens. They are private, not commercial, isn’t that so?

“Bien vu”, dixit Jean Michel. Tu as parfaitement raison, ce ne sont pas des jardins maraîchers, mais des jardins potagers ou ouvriers. Je change le titre du post.
“Ah yes”, says Jean Michel. You are perfectly right. They are not market gardens but allotments or community gardens. I’ll change the title of the post.

Hey, there’s plenty of Amboise to go around. Besides I haven’t published a shot of these gardens yet so you’re filling in the gap. And, yes, they are private. Our neighbor has a plot… and we have benefited greatly from that !

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