In Saint-Blaise (Alpes-Maritimes)
Cars parade at a regular rate in the parking lot of their organic farm, whose crops extend at the foot of the Mercantour park, on the Var plain. Dominique and Chantal Bagnato, polyculture market gardeners in Saint-Blaise, were hit hard by the closure of the outdoor markets, restaurants and canteens. The arrival of the Covid-19 in France and the ensuing confinement threatened to bankrupt them. They reorganized overnight to save their farm.
" We survive thanks to the D system ," says Chantal Bagnato, while supervising the loading of baskets in the van of her farm. How was it organized in practice? " Ah beh concretely, we shit, what, " she exclaims, laughing in her singing accent from the south of France. " To start, we prepare crates of vegetables for 20 euros which we deliver to Alexis de Levens bakery ," continues Chantal. She sells them for us
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