On 14 October, around fifteen workers from ESAT de la Croix Verte (a sheltered employment centre) came to Les Arches Castriotes, in Castries, to harvest Sichuan pepper.
Sichuan pepper is one of the species planted on the agroforestry demonstration site. Harvesting it requires care: the clusters of red berries are picked by hand, branch by branch.
The partnership with the ESAT does not stop at picking. The pepper is then sorted and husked in the ESAT’s workshops, where this precision work finds its place.
For Racines de France®, it is a concrete way of rooting the demonstration site in its territory: a site that restores, produces and opens up to the people who work there. Thanks to the ESAT de la Croix Verte team for this day.
