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if I tell you what the peasant
do you think
a person in straw hat hooves
with with a fork or someone from a
little gruff but close to nature and
animals
why not even if I tell you
asks to think in a small way
little more contemporary than what is
you just been actors sometimes
huge fields as far as the eye can see
tons of chemistry food
maybe or agrifood factories
it’s likely nevertheless is that the
peasant term is really suited in this
case there not sure my name is delphine and
with my husband a Benoît we are
bordeaux wine farmer while
I have not put my boots I have not put a
my work blue and I’m
certainly not come in tractors
it is a bit far
yet my daily life is the one
of a peasant
I’ll explain we’ll start with a
little bit of history
originally the peasant was the
person who lived in and the countryside
it was even more of a condition than
a real job strictly speaking in
did not choose to be peasant
we try simply weighing
and then there have been tools that have been
invented to plow to sow for
reap and the peasant he became a
farmer with the appearance of
agronomy
we had access to news
knowledge and news
techniques and suddenly the farmer he
became a farmer so this is
a period that is marked by the
selection of plants and animals
creating new professions like
consultant technicians
or commercial agricultural the
development of mechanization well
sure and then the appearance of the
petrochemistry
so you know these are all
herbicides fungicides insecticides or
it’s all these products that ends
by the suffix this side which means kill
so of course all these advances these
developments
it was intended to facilitate
agricultural activity which is true is
a difficult activity and we thought that
by securing the harvests and
facilitating the work of the farmer
we were going to allow him to live better
only here was the peasant doing
with the living and well we slipped to
the farmer who selects who
loses diversity and then who
use products that kill and the
business continued to evolve and a
activity thought to feed a
local population we went to a
market farming by transforming
the farmer as a farmer and
even though evolution
she allowed this evolution allowed to
France to become a leader in
agricultural production and well
operators no longer needing
look at the natural principles
agronomic and environmental
they simply lost
basic knowledge and then over
time there are difficulties that have
started to be observed declining
yields but increased costs
of production decreased fertility of
soils that can go up to sterility
we can have water pollution
air pollution development of the
disease resistance loss of
biodiversity
and then and then
I have a blower in front of halak is this
What to do
do we have to bet once again
on biotechnology for it to
tries to isolate a super new
molecule or is that which is not more
judicious to relearn to work
with the nature of the art is observed
to work with it and not against
she by concretely we do how
with my husband we grew up on
farms in charente-maritime in the south
West of France
and then life brought us close to
bordeaux to settle us out of frame
family then settling that means
start his activity but out of context
family
it means we have not inherited
the activity of our parents but that we
we created it and then we planted
eight hectares of vineyards then that
represents a plot of 80 thousand meters
squares anyway and even if it remains
a small area for the region
Bordeaux
it still took 48 thousand seedlings
vine 48 thousand holes 48000 stitched and 48
a thousand planting gestures to make
to be born the vineyard of the work anyway
and then Benoit having grown up on a
farm in organic farming
but we chose this same mode of
production that is respectful of
men of the nature of the air from the water of
everything that lives but because inevitably
there is one but the vine is a
monoculture and monocultures are not
no models of biodiversity
so how do we do to relocate the
life our heart of an ecosystem
where do we start and then especially where
are we looking for training
luck is it exists in France
many associations for the
nature and the environment with people
who are passionate and passionate
and especially since they have all the
knowledge and skills that
we do not have
and on their advice we lead
actions to recreate balances
environmental issues around production
wine
for example by planting hedges and
does one protect the cold culture have
provided food and shelter to
animals and then we draw a whole bunch
of insects and then if in addition we
introduced fruit trees and
leafy in the heart of the vineyard and well one
allows to break the prevailing winds and
there again we attract a whole fauna of
predators that will regulate
pests by adding nesting boxes
we attract birds that are big
insectivores and who by chasing on everything
the vineyard but will eat full
insects whose pests of the
vine
and then when we develop the vineyard
to welcome bats
we make sure of their presence on the whole
domain because you have to know that from a
the winemakers are bothered by
small caterpillars that are hanged in
grape berries by butterflies
nocturnal and then on the other side we have
bats that are small
nocturnal mammals and who are when
even able to swallow up to three
thousand insects per night and per individual
at the end of rename is complicated to
understand that has an interest in the
welcome do the job to our
square
and it works then to all this
add the advice of an entomologist
who are insect specialists
the census of snakes akita because
that snakes are part of
he ecosystems
we had the spotting of wild orchids
and protected flowers because we
has a whole wild flora that resurfaces
late mowing to leave the
plants go to the end of their
cycle ie to come to grain for
to be able to sift naturally
creation of wetlands so we have
dug ponds on the vineyard
we also release him
two hedgehogs who are big eaters
snails and slugs t that are
too cute and then we also have the
release of little owls then
it is the smallest raptor of France the
little owl but it’s a big
insect eaters and then small
rodents because in the field we have plenty
small field mice and small
shrew you know little mice
the fields and suddenly we became
subject for two studies so the first
regards the study of the impact of the tree
in a wine-growing environment and the second aims to
to monitor the feeding behavior of
bats on the on the vineyard and
as we are lucky to be part of
a dynamic one learns a lot
we we said it in our turn
had to transmit so we
welcome and we testify
immensely on the vineyard with
many people including
young people some of whom come in
worksite nature summer and manufactures with
we birdhouses lodgings
hot smiles the insects hotels the
hedgehog huts we install on
the vineyards were still that it
begins to make sense of the peso world
women are in fact we can still go
further
so how did I just explain
how to create an ecosystem in
agricultural production ie how
create a harmony between a culture and
its environment its territory but this
that it is not possible to create a
ecosystem
at the peasants operation
that is to say a harmony between
men and their way of working between
they imagine
imagine a place where the winemaker and the
market gardener work hand in hand
sharing their materials their lands
imagine a place where the winemaker but
share his pumps and hoses
vinification with the brewer imagined a
place where the freight elevator he to serve the
tuesday for palettes of 20 th
Wednesday for vegetable crates
and then on Thursday for crates of
beer a place where the potatoes the
onions and the beets thumb to
middle of the vine rows as at
the Gallo-Roman era a place where
roadside apps sit next to feet of
important grape the benefits of
agroforestry to the winemakers and then
by their productions completing the
market gardening basket a place where the
plants are no longer competitors but
Additional
a place where producers are no longer
only
but the solidarity and where we share the
tips knowledge helps
techniques the same commercial circuit or
so we offer more offers
complete more attractive because think
to many where we face together the
emergency situations
we support ourselves imagine a place where everything
becomes possible because we do
together a lion is inventing coworking
peasants take place who create
local employment that initiate projects
innovative takes place that values the economy
circular that revitalizes a territory
takes place that thinks about welcoming the
public even in situations of
handicap or takes place where where can we come from
on vacation to recharge for
discover to understand where everyone has
his role
the winemaker market the armband
but also the walker the picker
and where everyone can act to his measure in
making or investing for
allow others to imagine
a place a place of sharing and humanity
and well this place is in existence
currently and it’s called the possible
laughs it means the place of all
possible and we are already from
many friends of the possible rice to
think another peasantry is
possible respectful benevolent
collaborative is happy and I will
invite everyone to find your place
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