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Our guided walks in 2011

!! The guide speaks only French !!

February 27, 14:00 : Walk for orientation

You would quite simply like to walk in footpaths without markers, out "off the beaten track". But... you are afraid to get lost!
You consider that it is necessary to know to read a map and to know to direct yourself towards the land. But... that is not really learned any more at school !
You intended to speak about orienteering and that tempts you. But... you know nothing in handling of map and compass!

That will interest you

We propose to learn how to read a map, and to use the compass.
In the past, the orientation was used in all displacements, terrestrial or maritime, to go as fast as possible from a point to another. This technique is lost to the great benefit of the GPS...
Let us rediscover it together and spend a constructive afternoon outside !

A Sunday of the month, since March to October

- except in July ! -, participate to our

Guided walks "Gourmet Nature"

Gourmet ?

A lot of plants that freely grow along the paths, on the banks, in our meadows and our woods are often considered as " bad herbs " and therefore taken in worth considerating, or even destroyed. But they can be used in our food and are often delicious, able to satisfy our gourmet senses.
The aim of our walks is to help you to discover them, to learn you to know them, to indicate you where to look for them – according to soil, to light, to proximity of other species...
Some of these plants, very known of our forebears and widely used, disappeared completely of our food assortment.
Loss of flavors, loss of experience to which you can easily remedy, while combining the pleasure of the explanations of an extremely competent guide and a quiet walk, suitable for the children as for the old people.

Every month offers new discoveries ! We do not use the tansy in March nor the nettle in August...
Your attention, according to the seasons, will be besides drawn to particular aspects of the nature (the song of the birds, for example...). See the list of these topics below.

For all walks, meet at 14:00 at the Ferme castrale of Hermalle-sous-Huy where are located the Gourmet Library and Museum... and their tavern.
The walk of + / - 8 km takes place either in Hermalle-sous-Huy, either in the surrounding area; it ends toward 5.30 pm.
The dogs, keeped on a lead, are welcome!

March, 27 – at 14:00

Under the sign of a god who symbolized passion and sensual force, Mars was the first month of the Roman year, indicating the agricultural beginning of the year.
The vegetation, exit of its numbness, offers euphorbium, lamb's lettuce, pimpernel, dandelion…
What will you choose for your today evening salad?

April, 17 – at 14:00

April again: spring is there, and its time of love. The blackbird sits on its green eggs, the swallows come back in spite of showers.
There is a chance you will discover the Beautiful-Star that perfumes the "wine of May", this Maitrank so prized in the south of our country… and that you can taste in the tavern of the Gourmet Museum

May, 22 – at 14:00

In the month of Maïa (mother of Mercury) and Marie (for the Catholics), nature blossoms, pinecone opens while crackling, sky is full of singing larks. Birds chat in the trees: goldcrest sings, sparrow chirps, blackbird shirps, magpie chatters; to listen to their song completes the research of wild edible or medicinal plants.

June, 26 – at 14:00

Since 26 days, Juno reigns over this month when the year enters in the summer, when days will be the longest.
Last night, the quail called. The oriole sings, the sky is blue and the gardens are full of roses and peonies. Who makes this crumpled paper noise in the coppice ?
It is the redstart that follows you in your discovery of wild edible plants.

August, 28 – at 14:00

In August (so named in memory of the Roman emperor Augustus), grasshoppers crackle on the meadows, lizards run along the walls, trails crack under the heat that, in principle, devastates the earth.
Along the slopes, the tansy raises again its yellow capitulums : pick its leaves to flavor your salads or taste the "allumelle à la ténoisie" in the tavern of the Gourmet Museum.

September, 25 – at 14:00

With the equinox of September 23, we enter in the autumn for three months. The day is more yellow, the evening announces the cold. A good mulled wine or a tea with fresh orange will be the welcome after this guided walk during which you will have looked for a plant that doesn't comprise chlorophyll but interests most of us. For two reasons: either it is edible and can be delicious, either it is poisonous... and it is better to know it! Our walk of September will make you discover the mushroom!

October, 23 – at 14:00

The broad-leaved trees get ready to sleep ; they don't anymore feed their leaves which are going to take a red, yellow or even orange colour before falling and forming a crispy carpet under the feet. Beechnuts, acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, are also strewn over the soil ; these fruits often made the daily of our forebears; we always appreciate them... To the edge of woods, we pick the beefsteak fungus, the" verdelet", the chanterelle. The perfume of the ceps drifts; if it didn't freeze, you will maybe find some...

Others events in the Ferme castrale :

Npo Tourist office of Hermalle-sous-Huy (La Rawète)
in the Ferme Castrale of Hermalle-sous-Huy