Launched in March 2022, Puls’GARDEN is an initiative that offers baskets of 100% natural fruit and vegetables every week to the fifty or so employees of Pulsar Materiaux, as well as to an association that helps the most underprivileged, all whilst boosting the biodiversity of the city of Anderlecht.
The planning was carried out by Vestaculture, a company that designs, develops, and maintains edible gardens out in fields, on roofs, in vegetable gardens and on microfarms for companies, communities, schools, individuals, and more.
“People told us it was impossible, so that just made us want to try it!” This is what the people behind the project, founder and CEO of Pulsar Materiaux, Bafti Dzeladini, and Vincent Anselin, in charge of development, said to themselves.
They turned an industrial wasteland into a living, nourishing ecosystem as well as a business project.
The original site was dusty and lifeless… Full of concrete, pebbles, and grass growing in compacted, clay soil.
This soil had been abused for years, and it was time for it to be renewed!
Alongside Vestaculture, a partner and player in the project, they needed to dig 35 cm into the ground wherever they wanted life to take root, and then supply new soil and nutrient-rich compost. Work was also done to install rainwater collection tanks alongside an irrigation and electrical network, as well as paving. This edible garden boasts 2 greenhouses, an edible forest, a chicken coop, a pond, and user-friendly spaces for employees and clients.
The first generous harvests were ready to be picked after 4 months, and are now being distributed by the company’s market gardener every Thursday.
For more information on the project
You can also visit Puls’GARDEN for yourself: just contact Vincent Anselin.
See the report on the project on Luc Noël’s program Jardins & Loisirs, shown on Sunday 2 October 2022 on La Une.
