These trees on the side of the road awaiting planting caught my eye. In fact, Paris just held an event bringing awareness to sustainable development and living. From May 22-24, the Champs-Elysees was blanketed with grass (no cars allowed). Trees and flowers lined the street and Parisians spent their days picnicking and strolling down the avenue barefoot!
What motivates a city to shut down its busiest thoroughfare, allow 8,000 plots of earth, 150,000 plants, sheep and cattle to be brought in and private investors to donate 4.2 million Euro to make it happen? Simply a desire to remind the everyday consumer (yes, they have those in France too) where their food actually comes from. In this fast paced world of ours, the best food still starts as a seed and takes months to grow.
The Young Farmers Unions and France Wood Forest provided the greenery.
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Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters
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