Events

A few moments of life at Deffend Vieux

OUR GUESTS ARE WELCOME TO

Happy New Year walk

To celebrate the start of the new year, we invite you to meet us at Le Deffend Vieux on Sunday 12 January 2025 for a lovely walk/picnic on Mont Aurélien. If the weather is fine, please arrive at 10am for a 10:30am departure. We'll prepare a soup for everyone to heat up at the summit, and let you sign up for the aperitif, cheese, wine and desserts. If the sky is too overcast, or it rains, we suggest arriving at 1 p.m. to enjoy the soup at home (bring your reading material, music to share, as well as cushions, plaids, bowls and spoons). A big kiss to you all, and happy Christmas and New Year. Sara, Edouard

Summer paella

Our last Paella Party,! We restarted, on October 11, 2025, August 2023, the first one was a master stroke: maybe not the paella of the century, but surely "a gourmet and festive paella", not only tasted but prepared together, hosts and friends, each with their task, who with peppers, who with onions..., who with cooking, who can-who wants, hands-on. Everyone is welcome!

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Association Nature et Nous

2026 Week 2: Walk-out around the establishment with a class from the Grand Section and residents who volunteer, able-bodied or in armchairs.
Having as its object cultural ex The aim is to promote cultural exchanges around nature and the garden. Since the start of the school year in 2023, Sara has been coordinating nature and garden discovery workshops at Les Colombes nursery school, in conjunction with Ehpad Olympe de Trets: a project to green the school's outdoor spaces and encourage intergenerational encounters.`

Support in the garden

Vegetable Garden 2026
Sowing beans, snow peas and spinach.
Planting of shallots, garlic and onions.
All to be tasted in the spring of 2026, long live the gourmands!!

PAST EVENTS

Evening in partnership with Ateliers Récréation (pottery workshop in Rousset). 

Meal ‘around the Mediterranean’ and Raku firing of the bowl that each participant will have glazed on the spot.

And of course, as usual, the ingredients will come mainly from local organic farming.

The shared garden at Le Deffend Vieux.

We dreamt about it, we wanted to build it on a larger plot of land, we didn't think we were up to the task, we're always thinking about big projects, and then finally we created it, here, on a small piece of land, less ambitious than in our dreams, but for three years we came and made it a real shared garden, friendly, frequented by a few lovers....

The Local Exchange System (SEL) at La Mine de Trets is organising a Local Exchange Exchange at Sara and Edouard's home in Le Deffend Vieux.

The idea is for members to bring along items such as books and records in good condition and offer them to other members in exchange for poppies.

Anastasia, Louison and Noé are students at the Lycée régional hôtelier in Marseille. They have come together as a group to share their passion and broaden their skills by learning new ways of baking and pastry-making.

Philippe Forcioli . Grand prix de l'Académie Charles Cros 1995 for his ‘François d'Assise’ adapted from Joseph Delteil (Grasset 1960), Prix Jacques Douai 2009 for his body of work.

For more than thirty years, he has been touring the country, delivering a song-poem that is both profound and light, accessible to the simple and the literate alike. An outstanding melodist and actor, he sings, declaims and enchants.