Membership

Application for membership

Membership in the association will enable you to present your garden, and post about your events, on our website (23,000 visitors in 2024), and to be featured in our annual leaflet.
70,000 copies of it are published and distributed to tourist offices, cultural sites, tourism fairs, tourist attractions, hotels, garden centres, plant festivals and other events associated with gardens.

You’ll enhance our region’s attractiveness by joining forces with approximately 80 other members (18 of whom have the “Remarkable Garden” designation) who have chosen the “Parks and Gardens of Alsace”.

Association :
Any owner of a garden meeting the specifications drafted by the association in its charter. Application by email with a description of the garden, its location, your contact details and a few representative photos. Two members of the executive committee will carry out a prospective membership visit.

Associated garden :
Same process as for a full member but without the restrictions for opening days.

Executive Committee :
Apply by email.

Charter :
The goal of the charter is to set the rules ensuring the quality of the offering and the cohesiveness of the network of Parks and Gardens of Alsace.
Member commitments :

• You must present a park or garden that is well maintained, clean, secure, with no work being performed on opening days (except in case of force majeure events), although gardening work may be done.
• Your membership will have been validated by a committee of at least 3 people, and it will be valid for a 3-year term, during which a follow-up visit may take place.
• All new members must present their garden or park during the review meeting or during the annual general meeting.
• Your membership dues must be paid up by 1st February of each year.
• Updated information regarding the garden or park must be provided by early November of the current year at the latest, in order to be included in the leaflet, which will be distributed in spring of the following year.
• You commit to opening your park or garden for the number of days set by the executive committee, in order to make it a genuine tourist attraction. The current number is 50 days per year minimum.
• You undertake to distribute at least 300 leaflets in the area in close proximity to the garden.
• You must personally pick up these leaflets by appointment at the following pickup points:

• The members must present the leaflet on their premises and promote all of the network’s gardens.
• You must have a Facebook account in order to be able to publish on the association’s Facebook Group
• All documents you issue, as well as your website, must display the association’s logo.
• You must be open for the Encounters in the Gardens and/or European Heritage Days events.
• You must send your visitor statistics to the association.
• Non-compliance with the charter may result in your membership being terminated.

Contact

M. Christian Fontaine
76 Rue de la Vallée Saint-Ulrich
67140 BARR

+33 (0)6 09 71 67 99

christian.fontaine67@gmail.com