Here the farmers of tomorrow grow. Throughout France, test areas support apprentice farmers in their first steps.

The vast majority in professional retraining and “not from an agricultural background” – or ‘Nima’ – come to test their desire, their motivation and their ability to slip into the boots of an organic farmer. L'Essor market gardener. One of the oldest agricultural test spaces in the country, where young start-ups, the vast majority of whom are in their early 20s, are tested.