Biodiversity and ecology A daily and long-term commitment<\/span><\/h1><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Because ecology runs in our veins, we have made many choices on the farm.
\nFor us, loving and protecting nature is also valid for animals, humans, water, our resources...<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/span>Flora and wildlifeAct for them, live with them<\/span><\/h2><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Starting with the well-being of our animals, we have necessarily made a commitment to that wild animals and biodiversity around and far from us:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Become vegan<\/li>\n
- Donate to several animal welfare associations<\/li>\n
- Become an LPO refuge<\/li>\n
- Fence our 12 ha of meadows to create an oasis\/refuge for wildlife<\/li>\n
- Create water areas\/pools\/ponds by finding sources<\/li>\n
- Operating without treatment since our arrival in 2018<\/li>\n
- Leave wild areas within 24 ha<\/li>\n
- Mow and maintain reasonably around the house and leave plenty of wild areas<\/li>\n
- Respect areas conducive to insects by creating paths in the garden and meadows<\/li>\n
- Build dry stone walls or old tiles to shelter multiple small animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Raise awareness among our customers about environmental protection<\/li>\n
- Store piles of wood everywhere (for small animals, toads, snakes, hedgehogs, mouse, etc.)<\/li>\n
- Leave dead trees on the land<\/li>\n
- Install bird and bat nest boxes, houses for squirrels, insects, toads and hedgehogs<\/li>\n
- Living on good terms with foxes by protecting our chickens well<\/li>\n
- Leave reception areas for owls and swallows under the roofs<\/li>\n
- Plant drought-tolerant flowers<\/li>\n
- Plant numerous hedges with berries and flowers for pollinators<\/li>\n
- Leave the ivy on the trees<\/li>\n
- Planting trees every year since 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Biodiversity](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-19.jpg\" "\\"Biodiversity")
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<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Birdhouse\"](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-04.jpg\" "\\"Birdhouse\\"")
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<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Hedgehog](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-05.jpg\" "\\"Hedgehog")
<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>Energy sobriety and ecologyFor the group lodge and the guest rooms<\/span><\/h2><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>The mission did not stop there, we had to organize the guest rooms and the lodging around sobriety energy<\/strong> and ecology<\/strong>, and all the complexity that this represents...<\/p>\nWe therefore have:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Equipped the entire house with aerators to lower the water flow, as well as the showers with the Hydrao system to give tenants the \u00ab\u00a0color\u00a0\u00bb of their shower<\/li>\n
- Raise awareness among our tenants about energy and water conservation with multiple panels<\/li>\n
- Invested in very water-efficient washing machines and dishwashers<\/li>\n
- Installed solar lamps with motion detectors in the garden<\/li>\n
- Equipped the entire house with LEDs<\/li>\n
- Canceled our Jacuzzi project<\/li>\n
- Passed the Eco Tourism environmental label in V\u00e9z\u00e8re<\/li>\n
- Systematic mulching of the vegetable garden, flowers and flower beds, with straw or wool from our sheep<\/li>\n
- Pushed selective sorting into each bathroom of the rooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Eliminated packaging everywhere, including for our tenants (solid soaps and shampoos or filling)<\/li>\n
- Developed composts<\/li>\n
- Recycled the manure from our sheep in vegetable garden areas<\/li>\n
- Used recycled paper everywhere (printer, paper towels, tissues and toilet paper)<\/li>\n
- Worked with 100% eco-labeled products<\/li>\n
- Chose to serve local, organic, homemade and seasonal products for breakfast<\/li>\n
- Chose to switch to cloth napkins at the table<\/li>\n
- Changed our 2 cars for electric vehicles<\/li>\n
- Limited and optimized our journeys as much as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Eco-Tourism](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/eco-tourisme-en-vezere.jpg\" "\\"Eco-Tourism")
<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Mulching\"](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-20.jpg\" "\\"Mulching\\"")
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<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Mulching](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-10.jpg\" "\\"Mulching")
<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Composts\"](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-07.jpg\" "\\"Composts\\"")
<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Valorization](\"https:\/\/www.fermedespetitesoreilles.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/biodiversite-et-ecologie-21.jpg\" "\\"Valorization")
<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>A grateful and generous natureConvictions and commitment rewarded<\/span><\/h2><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>We try every year to be more and more virtuous and respectful towards this generous nature.<\/p>\n
We regularly discover with joy that Nature gives us so much when we pamper it...<\/p>\n
Several examples demonstrate this well:<\/p>\n
\n- Gradual return of birds, insects, snakes and small animals around the house!<\/li>\n
- Absence of mosquitoes, due to the return of birds and bats<\/li>\n
- Growing collection of blackberries each year<\/li>\n
- Absence of vegetable garden disease thanks to the balance of permaculture<\/li>\n
- Abundance of the vegetable garden thanks to manure and compost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We wish to be ambassadors for the protection of the environment and Nature for people who cross the entrance to our little paradise...<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Because ecology runs in our veins, we have made many choices on the farm.
\nFor us, loving and protecting nature is also valid for animals, humans, water, our resources...<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Flora and wildlifeAct for them, live with them<\/span><\/h2><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Starting with the well-being of our animals, we have necessarily made a commitment to that wild animals and biodiversity around and far from us:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Become vegan<\/li>\n
- Donate to several animal welfare associations<\/li>\n
- Become an LPO refuge<\/li>\n
- Fence our 12 ha of meadows to create an oasis\/refuge for wildlife<\/li>\n
- Create water areas\/pools\/ponds by finding sources<\/li>\n
- Operating without treatment since our arrival in 2018<\/li>\n
- Leave wild areas within 24 ha<\/li>\n
- Mow and maintain reasonably around the house and leave plenty of wild areas<\/li>\n
- Respect areas conducive to insects by creating paths in the garden and meadows<\/li>\n
- Build dry stone walls or old tiles to shelter multiple small animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Raise awareness among our customers about environmental protection<\/li>\n
- Store piles of wood everywhere (for small animals, toads, snakes, hedgehogs, mouse, etc.)<\/li>\n
- Leave dead trees on the land<\/li>\n
- Install bird and bat nest boxes, houses for squirrels, insects, toads and hedgehogs<\/li>\n
- Living on good terms with foxes by protecting our chickens well<\/li>\n
- Leave reception areas for owls and swallows under the roofs<\/li>\n
- Plant drought-tolerant flowers<\/li>\n
- Plant numerous hedges with berries and flowers for pollinators<\/li>\n
- Leave the ivy on the trees<\/li>\n
- Planting trees every year since 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>
Energy sobriety and ecologyFor the group lodge and the guest rooms<\/span><\/h2><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>The mission did not stop there, we had to organize the guest rooms and the lodging around sobriety energy<\/strong> and ecology<\/strong>, and all the complexity that this represents...<\/p>\nWe therefore have:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Equipped the entire house with aerators to lower the water flow, as well as the showers with the Hydrao system to give tenants the \u00ab\u00a0color\u00a0\u00bb of their shower<\/li>\n
- Raise awareness among our tenants about energy and water conservation with multiple panels<\/li>\n
- Invested in very water-efficient washing machines and dishwashers<\/li>\n
- Installed solar lamps with motion detectors in the garden<\/li>\n
- Equipped the entire house with LEDs<\/li>\n
- Canceled our Jacuzzi project<\/li>\n
- Passed the Eco Tourism environmental label in V\u00e9z\u00e8re<\/li>\n
- Systematic mulching of the vegetable garden, flowers and flower beds, with straw or wool from our sheep<\/li>\n
- Pushed selective sorting into each bathroom of the rooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Eliminated packaging everywhere, including for our tenants (solid soaps and shampoos or filling)<\/li>\n
- Developed composts<\/li>\n
- Recycled the manure from our sheep in vegetable garden areas<\/li>\n
- Used recycled paper everywhere (printer, paper towels, tissues and toilet paper)<\/li>\n
- Worked with 100% eco-labeled products<\/li>\n
- Chose to serve local, organic, homemade and seasonal products for breakfast<\/li>\n
- Chose to switch to cloth napkins at the table<\/li>\n
- Changed our 2 cars for electric vehicles<\/li>\n
- Limited and optimized our journeys as much as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>
A grateful and generous natureConvictions and commitment rewarded<\/span><\/h2><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>We try every year to be more and more virtuous and respectful towards this generous nature.<\/p>\n
We regularly discover with joy that Nature gives us so much when we pamper it...<\/p>\n
Several examples demonstrate this well:<\/p>\n
\n- Gradual return of birds, insects, snakes and small animals around the house!<\/li>\n
- Absence of mosquitoes, due to the return of birds and bats<\/li>\n
- Growing collection of blackberries each year<\/li>\n
- Absence of vegetable garden disease thanks to the balance of permaculture<\/li>\n
- Abundance of the vegetable garden thanks to manure and compost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We wish to be ambassadors for the protection of the environment and Nature for people who cross the entrance to our little paradise...<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Starting with the well-being of our animals, we have necessarily made a commitment to that wild animals and biodiversity around and far from us:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- \n
- Become vegan<\/li>\n
- Donate to several animal welfare associations<\/li>\n
- Become an LPO refuge<\/li>\n
- Fence our 12 ha of meadows to create an oasis\/refuge for wildlife<\/li>\n
- Create water areas\/pools\/ponds by finding sources<\/li>\n
- Operating without treatment since our arrival in 2018<\/li>\n
- Leave wild areas within 24 ha<\/li>\n
- Mow and maintain reasonably around the house and leave plenty of wild areas<\/li>\n
- Respect areas conducive to insects by creating paths in the garden and meadows<\/li>\n
- Build dry stone walls or old tiles to shelter multiple small animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- \n
- Raise awareness among our customers about environmental protection<\/li>\n
- Store piles of wood everywhere (for small animals, toads, snakes, hedgehogs, mouse, etc.)<\/li>\n
- Leave dead trees on the land<\/li>\n
- Install bird and bat nest boxes, houses for squirrels, insects, toads and hedgehogs<\/li>\n
- Living on good terms with foxes by protecting our chickens well<\/li>\n
- Leave reception areas for owls and swallows under the roofs<\/li>\n
- Plant drought-tolerant flowers<\/li>\n
- Plant numerous hedges with berries and flowers for pollinators<\/li>\n
- Leave the ivy on the trees<\/li>\n
- Planting trees every year since 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>
Energy sobriety and ecologyFor the group lodge and the guest rooms<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>The mission did not stop there, we had to organize the guest rooms and the lodging around sobriety energy<\/strong> and ecology<\/strong>, and all the complexity that this represents...<\/p>\n
We therefore have:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- \n
- Equipped the entire house with aerators to lower the water flow, as well as the showers with the Hydrao system to give tenants the \u00ab\u00a0color\u00a0\u00bb of their shower<\/li>\n
- Raise awareness among our tenants about energy and water conservation with multiple panels<\/li>\n
- Invested in very water-efficient washing machines and dishwashers<\/li>\n
- Installed solar lamps with motion detectors in the garden<\/li>\n
- Equipped the entire house with LEDs<\/li>\n
- Canceled our Jacuzzi project<\/li>\n
- Passed the Eco Tourism environmental label in V\u00e9z\u00e8re<\/li>\n
- Systematic mulching of the vegetable garden, flowers and flower beds, with straw or wool from our sheep<\/li>\n
- Pushed selective sorting into each bathroom of the rooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- \n
- Eliminated packaging everywhere, including for our tenants (solid soaps and shampoos or filling)<\/li>\n
- Developed composts<\/li>\n
- Recycled the manure from our sheep in vegetable garden areas<\/li>\n
- Used recycled paper everywhere (printer, paper towels, tissues and toilet paper)<\/li>\n
- Worked with 100% eco-labeled products<\/li>\n
- Chose to serve local, organic, homemade and seasonal products for breakfast<\/li>\n
- Chose to switch to cloth napkins at the table<\/li>\n
- Changed our 2 cars for electric vehicles<\/li>\n
- Limited and optimized our journeys as much as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>
A grateful and generous natureConvictions and commitment rewarded<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>We try every year to be more and more virtuous and respectful towards this generous nature.<\/p>\n
We regularly discover with joy that Nature gives us so much when we pamper it...<\/p>\n
Several examples demonstrate this well:<\/p>\n
- \n
- Gradual return of birds, insects, snakes and small animals around the house!<\/li>\n
- Absence of mosquitoes, due to the return of birds and bats<\/li>\n
- Growing collection of blackberries each year<\/li>\n
- Absence of vegetable garden disease thanks to the balance of permaculture<\/li>\n
- Abundance of the vegetable garden thanks to manure and compost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We wish to be ambassadors for the protection of the environment and Nature for people who cross the entrance to our little paradise...<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>