Back on the 20th festival of the future to the naturalness

This free annual event aims to present products, often local, derived from organic farming and handicrafts. About 200 exhibitors were there, representing various sectors such as food, aromatherapy, habitat, textile, renewable energy, gardening, education to the environment, or nature protection.
By 2015, more than 30,000 visitors attended the Festival. For two days, conferences and debates have been proposed to the public: diet, self-building, renewable energy, naturopathy, enlargement of the A480 highway to Grenoble, and many other topics.

Late Saturday afternoon, Eric Piolle, Mayor of Grenoble, and Julien Polat, Mayor of Voiron and Vice President of the Isere County Council, spoke during a open debate about the broadening of the A480. Although the Mayor of Grenoble opposes this widening project, the Isere County Council would have already found a financial solution with Area, which would reach 385 million euros.

Throughout the weekend, many workshops for children and adults were also held. Creation of a honey balm, reflexology, massage, shiatsu or biodynamic dance for adults, and game tracks, green puppets, circus, or food waste workshops for the younger.

Moment de détente au Festival de l'Avenir au Naturel

Photo: © Coline Mionnet

In addition to concerts and exhibitions, an open-air bar and different places where to eating organic food, there were a lot of new products to discover on the exhibitors’ stands.
For example, Innov Mountains met Quat’Rues, a small team that designs fair and green clothing, marked with meaningful designs on environment. About gardening, Prestige Amaryllis offers among others bulbs of Fritillaria Aurora, an orange flower, to naturally hunt moles and rodents from one’s garden. For aromatherapy enthusiasts, Lesaint glass lab, located in Manzat, in Puy de Dome county, manufactures and sells hydro-distillers specially adapted to produce its own essential oils. In a different field, the Aquatiris agency offers approved sanitation systems by phytodepuration, so no need of septic tanks neither of repeated and costly maintenance. The concept seems especially ideal for buildings not yet connected to the mains drainage, or simply to make maintenance savings while creating a small setting of biodiversity at home.