A summer of forest fires, cracking soils, groundwater struggling to recharge: we react, we extinguish, we repair. It is necessary, but these are symptoms. The problem lies further upstream: depleted soils, fragile monocultures, a water cycle that no longer works as it should.
Racines de France® works to tackle the problem at the source. On our two demonstration sites, Montignac Forest in the Cantal and Les Arches Castriotes in the Hérault, our method puts the tree back at the centre: a diverse forest, far from monoculture, designed and monitored over time, continuous grass cover, biodiversity monitored and preserved, and living soil that holds water.
A forest designed this way never acts on just one thing: it stores carbon, regulates water, regenerates soil and shelters biodiversity. And because it is not uniform, it better resists fire, drought and pests. The effects reinforce each other.
It is this regeneration that we are spreading, beyond our two sites, with businesses and territories ready to commit.
