The work in the garden occupied above all the lay sisters. However, since the novices were used for weeding, it is presumed that at the most intense times they could be employed in the garden to weed the vegetable patch. This vegetable garden was reorganized in 1890, with a major purchase of seeds.
Apart from this vegetable garden, the garden includes a few fruit trees, and the hay that grows in the meadow, the sale of which brings in very little.
It serves above all to replace the contents of the mattresses, those mattresses stuffed with hay on which the Carmelites sleep. His harvest earned us a beautiful photo of the community hard at work (in June 1896).
The bench sack is a heavy hessian sack, shaped like a mattress with all the corners made and well sewn. It is filled with straw until it is well stuffed.
The bench remains curved for about a month: it was necessary make his hole in it so as not to fall out of bed, because it was difficult to hold on to it in the first days. It was like lying on a small barrel!
We changed the straw when the middle had become a hole because of the broken straw.
The community had a gardener until 1888, according to the account book. Then it comes to the day in the highlights.
There is also a modest barnyard at the end of the garden, which requires daily care. The sisters eat the eggs but this is not enough to feed the community.
