We could marvel for hours in front of the mountains hugging the Matheysine plateau or in front of the beautiful sunsets from the Brittany coast. If we look beyond the postcard, we can see the rural landscape and its fields, its bocage, its farms and those people we sometimes see frequently without really knowing what they do. People who find themselves faced with environmental and societal issues that disrupt certain visions imposed and still defended by a system often unhealthy which gangrene a whole sector of activity, sometimes taking away the human and the environment beyond the limits. In this context emerges a desire to produce better, and differently, searching a better way to work in balance with nature.

“In 20 years will there still be agriculture in the valley? Without the aid... But the aid is also killing agriculture. They give us the help to command us, tell us what to do. As we drift towards an agriculture that no longer wants to produce well, too many farmers are trying to touch the CAP.” Pierre

“It ruins the human these large surfaces. The big structures, they are in debt. They produce nothing, they hurt the planet and they hurt the human. I don’t see a 200-hectare farm operating economically. There are subsidies, loans, so it’s not sustainable. Sustainability is a recipe/ balance of expenses, if you need a perfusion...” Mikaël

“I am convinced that we can live from agriculture happy, without debt, without rotting our health and without rotting the planet.” Mikaël

“I changed the crops, I did a little more spring crops and a little less winter. What we have observed for several years is that we have very rainy winters with often quite dry autumns. There are more weather shots so I diversify to be less impacted...” Julien

“The CAP has worked very well since the 1960s. At the time it was necessary, it worked very well until the 1980s but it is a policy that has not been able to adapt to the changes of issues and contexts, the arrival of pollution, excess production... We could have changed, set other objectives for this policy, which was very effective, with the challenges of preserving the territory, preserving agricultural assets, increasing the quality of products, the intrinsic quality but also the social and environmental impact. There is a disconnection of the CAP from the current environmental climate issues. It has become a great game of influences. It can be very powerful for virtuous influences but also catastrophic if the committed lines are not well thought out. It is a very centralizing policy, it is not co-built with the territories, it was a bit but there with the new reform they have refocused everything on Paris” Julien

“The big groups are pulling the strings, they are the ones who decide the prices. There will always be industrialization. We are nothing. We’re trying to bring something local. We have a very good clientele but saying that everyone will start producing like us... it will be complicated...” Nicolas

“We may not develop very quickly but we develop at our level, we try to do everything by ourselves. We have no loans on our backs, we try to do without the banks. Making big investments is good for good development but if there is a problem, it can be complicated afterwards... Especially if you are dependent on long chains.” Alex