Les Chevaliers de l’Astrée
A non-profit organisation caring for living places and people in France and Spain.
Become a lifetime member and create a personal connection with one of the estates.
Your membership helps these places continue to thrive: planting and protecting trees, shrubs and flowers useful to pollinators, caring for orchards and preparing harvests that, over the years, become opportunities to come together.
It creates a personal connection with a real, referenced plot within one of these estates, which you can locate and watch evolve over time.
From €29 — one payment, valid for life.
Three founding gestures
Connect
Create a lasting connection with a place, its story and the living beings that inhabit it.
Care
Observe the seasons and support the gestures that allow the living world to continue.
Pass it on
Preserve the memory of the place so that its story can, in turn, be received by others.
A pause
Another way to breathe
Our commitment
Three estates gradually developing as havens of biodiversity
At each place, the organisation observes what is already there and supports changes that benefit the living world, according to the seasons and what is possible.
Fruit trees, perennial plants, wildlife refuges and areas left more freely to nature gradually find their place.
Caring for the living world means preserving balances on which we all depend.
Behind every membership
What memberships make possible
A membership becomes a practical gesture. It helps care for the places, observe their seasons, pass on their stories and prepare their future.
Care for the estates
Protect spaces, plant and create refuges for the living world.
Observe and pass on
Follow the seasons, document changes and preserve the memory of the places.
Prepare the future
Accompany the estates over time and gradually welcome new havens when it becomes possible.
Estates of the Astrée
Real living places
Each estate has its own rhythm, landscapes and vulnerabilities.
The estates of the Astrée are living places, with their seasons, trees, passing wildlife and transformations. The organisation accompanies them through the seasons while respecting the character and rhythm of each one.
Les Eaux de Velours
Meadows, ponds, woodland and wet areas near La Roche-Posay.
Les Mille Légendes
An old orchard, hedges, paths and a stream in the Berry.
Les Terres d’Aragon
An olive and almond grove in the landscapes of Aragon.
One membership, one payment
A single membership, valid for life
Membership connects its beneficiary with one or more referenced plots within a real living place. If they wish, they can create their personal space in the Fellowship using the personal code they receive. Not creating this space does not affect the membership or the connection created with the plot or plots.
There is no annual membership fee and no renewal. Taking part in gatherings and activities remains entirely optional. Some additional offers may have their own conditions.
What membership offers
- Follow the estates. Observe how they evolve and discover the actions, seasons and transformations of each place.
- Take part in gatherings. Meet other Chevaliers at gatherings proposed in France or Spain whenever you wish.
- Enter the Fellowship. Find estate news, gatherings and access to the Imaginaire de l’Astrée.
Membership grants no ownership right and no exclusive right of use over the land.
A membership to give
Give a lasting connection with nature
A membership of Les Chevaliers de l’Astrée connects its beneficiary with a referenced plot within a real living place. It includes a personalised certificate, the possibility of following the estates and, if they wish, creating a personal space in the Fellowship and accessing the Imaginaire de l’Astrée.
It is paid once and requires no annual fee or renewal. Some additional offers may have their own conditions.
A birth
A connection with nature that can accompany a child throughout life.
A wedding
A connection with nature to celebrate a story that is beginning.
Birthday or retirement
A lasting gesture connected with a project that carries meaning.
Nature lovers
A practical way to support living places and help pass them on.
The Imaginaire de l’Astrée tells history differently
Enter Martin’s first chapter
Martin is twelve and dreams of becoming a Chevalier. When he stops to free a robin, he does not yet know that he has just made the first gesture that will change his life.
Chapter I · The day everything changed
Read, understand, observe
Listen to the Scribe, follow Martin’s story, discover what history can teach us, then help him find the seven differences on the building site.
- The story
- The Scribe’s perspective
- The history
- The 7-differences game
Behind the door
The rest of the Grand Livre and the Carnets
The other chapters, challenges and the memory of the estates are reserved for Dames and Chevaliers de l’Astrée.
The adventure begins here
Which door will you choose?
Space reserved for members of Les Chevaliers de l’Astrée.