Charles Guyard (in Nantes), edited by Laura Laplaud 09:08, November 27, 2022, modified at 09:11, November 27, 2022

According to Météo France, October 2022 was the hottest October recorded in France since the start of meteorological measurements in 1945. As a result, summer fruits and vegetables are still present on market stalls.

Something to confuse customers and farmers in the aisles of this Nantes market.

There is no need to go see the melting ice on the pack ice to see the effects of global warming.

Just go to the food markets where fresh fruits and vegetables, which shouldn't usually be on the market stalls, are still very present. 

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On the stalls, strawberries and green beans rub shoulders

What makes Pascal proud here are not the carrots or potatoes on his stall but the strawberries produced at home in the Nantes region.

"They are still as good", he smiles at the microphone of Europe 1. Next to his strawberries, he offers green beans just harvested.

"It is above all the cold that is lacking to stop the sap and stop production. With the first frosts, the green beans are finished. We had a frost on November 20 this year instead of having one, often the All Saints' Day, which is three more weeks," he said.

Three more weeks of sweetness and everything is out of order.

“I always heard my parents, my grandparents following the sayings, teaching them to us and trying to play with them [but] no more sayings hold true,” he adds.

"Are there still seasons? I don't know"

Margot is a fruit and vegetable seller and on her stand, we also get a little tangled between the seasons.

"With the heat up to early November, there are things that arrived early and things that are still there when they shouldn't be [like] zucchini. Is there still have seasons? I don't know. You have to adapt to nature and follow the cycle it has chosen," she says.

An increasingly hectic cycle and in the end, menus turned upside down.

"Watermelon at Christmas? It's going to be something to be expected in production schedules."