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The farmers of tomorrow grow here

Just outside Gaillac, in Tarn, the countryside is still asleep, as if refusing to face the dull February sky and the persistent drizzle. The day has just begun, but the sun has already disappeared. The complete opposite of Muriel El-Yafi, a real greenhouse tornado. Having planted the potatoes, an apprentice gardener in a loose sweater and plastic gloves begins to water. In a few days, his broccoli, salads and cabbage will decorate his stall at the Lagrave market, 10 kilometers away. Then he runs to his second greenhouse to remove the remains of last year’s harvest.

After a few hours, the room is cleaned from top to bottom, ready to receive seeds and young plants. The forty-year-old has been following this frantic pace since January 2023, when she joined the L’Essor gardener. One of the oldest agricultural testing grounds in the country, where young start-ups, the vast majority of whom are undergoing professional retraining and “not from an agricultural background” – or “Nima” – come to test their desire, their motivation and their ability to slip. into the shoes of an organic farmer.

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Source: Le Parisien

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