The Cityculteur’s mission is to promote initiatives that will place garden and green spaces at the heart of urban living.

We see proximity with nature as a way to focus on illness prevention, encourageing a greater personal responsibility for health and enhancing well-being, particularly in the hospitals and medical centers of our cities. Le Carré des Simples created Cityculteurs, a non-profit organization, in order to promote social inclusion, health and well being of vulnerable adults through the use of gardening and therapeutic horticulture.

The company was created in 2003 in Paris by Jean-Claude Charlet, a plant connoisseur. Though it is a relatively young brand, it has already established a strong identity through the sale of herbal teas and 100% natural essential oils - giving a contemporary feel to the art of the traditional herbalist . Le Carré des Simples relentlessly investigates every aspect of a plant’s potential in order to imagine both culinary and cosmetic uses for it.

Le Carré des Simples is the French name for a medicinal herb, or nosegay, garden. The word “simples” originates from medival Abbey gardens tended by monks who called this category of plants "simples.” Today, this word evokes the knowhow of an expert gardener, cultivating in a raised square - a "carré" - of herbal plants for everyday use.

Le Carré des Simples takes this simple idea and with it aims to build havens of peace and relaxation amidst an urban jungle; places that stimulate all five senses, and encourages both hedonism and daily well-being.

Le Carré des Simples wishes to reinforce its attachment to the health as well as the well-being of society by initiating, leading and developing projects that puts gardens, gardening and all things chlorophyll, back into our concrete and macadamed environment. As an alternative lifestyle, Le Carré des Simples seeks to maintain values like simplicity and nature.

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