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“The vegetable garden carries me,” says Armand Tanner. The general practitioner hypnotherapist, chief of clinic at the medicine service of the first recourse of the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), welcomes us in a small corner with lush vegetation on the fringes of the channel road, in the Geneva countryside. The sun illuminates freshly harvested tomatoes. A makeshift shelter acts as an office. Tools overflow with a dusty car, parked a few meters from a greenhouse. Three dogs with a shaggy hair sleep peacefully in the shade.
Here there is no fuss. False and pruning shears to cut stubborn weeds, a grelinette and a picker fork to soften the floor, a rake to clear the excess and a watering pipe. A work of arms and calves, carried out with the conviction of the sage. “It took me years of reflection to materialize this project,” explains Armand, while weakening in the field, some 1000 m² arranged in permaculture. He exchanges an accomplice look with Elise, his partner shepherdess, busy storing plants in the trunk of the car. At the other end of the production chain, a small network of amateur gardeners impatiently awaits the future delivery.
