To compensate for the cancellation of the Agricultural Show, due to the sanitary situation, 200 farms across France are offering to welcome visitors directly to their farms from this weekend until March 7.

For the occasion, Europe 1 went to the village of Orcemont, in the Yvelines.

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This year, city dwellers will make the trip.

While the Salon de l'Agriculture will keep its doors closed due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Peasant Confederation on Saturday launched a vast open house operation on farms in France.

200 partner farms welcome visitors until March 7.

A way for farmers to share their passion, their vision of food.

For visitors, it is an opportunity to immerse themselves behind the scenes, far from the sanitized setting of the Porte de Versailles. 

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With three animals, a small farmers' market and a vegetable garden to visit, this farm in Orcemont, in the Yvelines, takes on the appearance of a mini agricultural fair.

It was the perfect holiday getaway for Betty and her 8½-year-old grandson Marco, mesmerized by Swiss chard plants.

"This is the first farm I see and it is kind of the first time that I see vegetables in the ground", he admits.

"Sharing what we experience every day"

His grandmother welcomes the initiative: "It brings the farm closer to the urban center… Instead of going to park our car in Paris!"

In his arms, a basket with honey, homemade herbal teas and a duck breast.

The last one sold by Christophe Morin, producer of foie gras.

"I find that interesting because for us, it is a way to meet our customers and to exchange ideas. It is to share what we experience every day, what we produce and what we knows how to do ", he explains to Europe 1.

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It is precisely for these exchanges that Rémy de Groulart decided to open his farm to the public in the absence of the salon at the Porte de Versailles.

"This is the opportunity to reconnect the city dweller with the countryside, with the land."

Moreover, here too there is a muse, as at the Salon de l'Agriculture: Bounty, a 15-year-old goat, admittedly a little less dashing than the top-model cows parading in Paris, but much more accessible.