Network Cocagne
The Network gathers the Jardins de Cocagne (Cocagne Gardens) which are collective biological gardens with an integrative and professional vocation. This non-profit organization was constituted upon 1901 association’s law.
These market-gardening exploitations receive men and women of all ages whose situation is precarious since they have professional, social and personal difficulties. Through the production of biological vegetables for their distribution, in the form of weekly baskets, these gardens allow disadvantaged adults to find an employment and build a personal and professional project. Jardins de Cocagne develops social, economical and environmental actions by recreating social links of proximity. They contribute to the social and interdependent economy and to the sustainable development.
It is a more than 16 000 actors’ network: 80 Jardins de Cocagne, 2700 gardeners in insertion, 12000 members consomm' actors, 450 membrers of the supervisory, 1200 voluntaries.
Its main missions
- Spreading, advising and supporting the Jardins de Cocagne projects, in France and in Europe, and developing new experiments
- Activating the Network and mutualizing the dynamics
- Professionalizing the gardens supervisory staff
- Representation and communication: by multiplying the internal networks, and the public and private partnerships; by capitalizing and disseminating the good practices.
Subjects of interest
- Assessment: users (at the quantitative and qualitative levels), associations (economical, social, of cohesion, environmental, of governance, of citizens mobilization, involved in territories).
- Network management
- Sustainable development
- Fight against exclusions
