The planting season in numbers
Season highlights
Plantation St Denis 13/11/24
📍 Location: Cité des Cosmonautes, Saint-Denis
🗓️ Date : 13 novembre
Participants :Yves Rocher employees and local residents
Organisers : Associations : Plaine Commune Habitat, Fun Être sur l’Ile et Forêt Commune
Trees : Fruit trees
Why : Urban planting projects are crucial both for the environment and for helping residents reconnect with nature — particularly in this Saint-Denis neighbourhood, where trees will:
- Block the view of the nearby motorway
- Act as a windbreak
- Reduce noise pollution
- Raise environmental awareness locally
Plateau de Saclay 05/12/24
📍 Location : Female farmer’s land, Plateau de Saclay
🗓️ Date : 5 december
Participants : Yves Rocher employees
Organisers : Terre et Cité et Agrof’île
Trees : 300 trees including privet, hazel, black elder, dogwood, raspberry
Why :
- A refuge for local wildlife — birds, mammals, and insects…
- A source of fruit and biodiversity for neighbours, walkers and farmers
- A shield against strong winds for surrounding crops
- A natural barrier to retain water, prevent erosion and landslides
Rennes 10 et 11/12/24
📍 Location :La Prévallaye, Rennes
🗓️ Date : 10 et 11 December
Participants : Yves Rocher employees and Marathon Vert attendees
Organiser : City of Rennes
Arbres : 3 000 arbres
Gonfaron 15/01/25
📍 Location :Château de Gasqui (vineyard), Gonfaron, VAR
🗓️ Date : 15 January
Participants : Yves Rocher shop staff and customers (30)
Organiser : Les Résiliants
Trees : 110 trees including hawthorn, pistachio, white mulberry, Bellone fig
Pourquoi : créer une haie bocagère, protéger les vignes etc…
Wavrin 22/01/25
📍 Location :Les Jardins de Basile, La Biovallée (market gardening/horticultural zone)
🗓️ Date : 22 January
Participants : Yves Rocher employees
Organiser : Les Planteurs Volontaires
Trees : 670 trees
Why? To transform an agricultural plot into an agroforestry site
Soisy-sur-Ecole 22/01/25
📍 Location :La Ferme Montaquoy, Soisy-sur-Ecole
🗓️ Date : 22 January
Participants : Yves Rocher employees and site manager Valentine Franc
Organiser : Agrof’île
Trees : 2 398 trees
Nancy 29/01/25
📍 Lieu :Picorette et Compagnie (organic egg-laying hens), Laître-sous-Amance
🗓️ Date : 29 January
Participants : Yves Rocher employees and customers
Organiser : CPIE Nancy Champernoux
Trees : 150 metres of hedgerows
Why? To provide shade for the future hens and support local biodiversity and animal welfare
La Gacilly 6 et 07/03/25
📍 Location : La Marandais (Yves Rocher plots), La Gacilly
🗓️ Quand : 6 & 7 March
Participants : Yves Rocher employees and customers (80)
Opérateur :l’Herbier Yves Rocher, Syndicat Mixte du Grand Bassin de l’Oust (SMGBO), Réseau Haies France
Arbres : 400 organic plants from the Armorican Massif — sessile oaks, wild cherry, hazel, ash, blackthorn
Bonus: Hedgerow workshops to understand how they work, learn their benefits, and identify what makes a functional hedge
Why is planting hedgerows so important?
Did you know? Since 1950, France has lost 70% of its hedgerows, and each year, 23,500 km more disappear. This massive loss is largely the result of agricultural land consolidation efforts from 1955 to 1975, which aimed to boost yields and ease mechanisation. Sadly, these measures also led to widespread hedgerow destruction — despite their crucial ecological role.
And yet, hedgerows are vital to biodiversity — providing shelter, food, and safe passageways for many species. That’s why we continue to plant field trees tirelessly, in partnership with Réseau Haies France (formerly AFAC-Agroforesteries).
Planting hedgerows today means healing past mistakes and building a more sustainable future.
Let’s get planting — it’s energising!
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