Le Cordon Bleu Paris vegetable roof top garden

Le Cordon Bleu Paris has one of the biggest roof top gardens in the capital. The benefits to the institute from this innovative approach are threefold.

Cultivating Paris from a vegetable garden

Firstly it serves as an educational tool in teaching students the multiple stages in the growing of fruit and vegetables and all about produce seasonality. Le Cordon Bleu Paris was in fact the first signatory on the Charter of Commitment to Seasonality and Quality created by the Collège Culinaire de France. Basic level Culinary Arts students have the opportunity of exploring the vegetable garden and tasting the different produce grown there. The company Ecovégétal, professionals in the field of roof top gardens, lead the students in their visits to the garden. 

Lessons on the roof top garden for the students

Curious-minded and keen to learn, they will soon take part in a new lesson to learn more about how to cook fruit, vegetables and aromatic herbs that they came across on the vegetable garden roof of their institute.

The company Ecovégétal, professionals in the field of making roofs and car parks into green havens and soil stabilisation, was in charge of the visit and will return to give forthcoming lessons to students.