Auteur/autrice : Clémence Fontaine

Clémence Fontaine est ingénieure agronome spécialisée en agriculture urbaine. Elle a coordonné des projets de jardins partagés à Paris et Lyon, et collabore avec l'INRAE sur l'adaptation des cultures aux balcons et toitures. Ses guides pratiques s'adressent aux jardiniers urbains débutants et confirmés.
A vegetable garden in late summer with tall corn stalks, climbing beans winding up the corn, and sprawling squash vines covering the ground around the base, photographed in soft afternoon light.

Polyculture Pairings: What the Three Sisters Got Right

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The Iroquois three sisters — corn, beans and squash grown together in a single mound — has become the most-cited example of polyculture in popular gardening writing. The example is genuinely good, but it has been so romanticised that the broader principle gets misunderstood. Three sisters works for specific botanical reasons: corn provides physical structure…

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A small north-facing apartment balcony in soft diffused light filled with terracotta pots of hostas, ferns, ivy and a wooden bench, with the brick wall of an opposite building visible beyond the balcony rail.

Balcony Shade Gardening: A Working Guide for Low-Light Apartments

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The first balcony I gardened, in a north-facing fourth-floor flat in Lyon, received approximately ninety minutes of direct sun in midsummer and zero hours from October through April. The standard advice — tomatoes, basil, peppers, sun-loving Mediterranean herbs — was useless to me. After two failed seasons of trying to grow what gardening books told…

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