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The Bec Hellouin farm: agricultural laboratory for the post-oil era

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Charles Hervé-Gruyer, co-founder of the Bec Hellouin farm, makes his own tools.

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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

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Cultivation on mounds, on planks, forest-garden, island-garden... since 2006, Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer have combined different techniques such as agroecology, permaculture or organic farming and the ancestral knowledge of the first peoples in their Bec Hellouin farm, located in Normandy, in the west of France.

Result: exceptional market gardening productivity without chemical inputs or machine tools.

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Summary: It's an oasis, an open-air laboratory nestled in Normandy, in the west of France.

The Bec Hellouin farm, created by Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer, is scrutinized by scientists and farmers from all over the world.

Its productivity without any chemical inputs or machine tools challenges us: have we been lied to?

Is industrial agriculture therefore not the solution to feed the world?

This is already obvious since 80% of the world's food is produced by farmers who cultivate less than 2 hectares.

It is for them and for all those who would be tempted by the agricultural adventure that Perrine and Charles innovate with a golden rule: imitate nature.

Listen carefully, here is a lesson in culture!

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