VIDEO. This market gardener manages to grow his vegetables without a single drop of water

“What drought?

Do you see any drought here?

Look at my tomatoes, they have never looked so good!

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This is how Marc Mascetti, market gardener in Marcoussis, in Essonne, welcomes us.

While the whole of mainland France is placed in “drought vigilance”, the vegetables of “Marco”, themselves, are doing like a charm.

Like his grandfather before him, Marco does not irrigate.

Peppers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and aromatic herbs grow without irrigation, fertilizers or pesticides.

“Like in the Middle Ages”.

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Marc's farm is located in arid terrain, 300 meters above sea level.

"We drilled up to 130 meters, we never had any water," he says.

So our only solution was to understand how nature can develop without water”.

Here, in the fall, we don't pull weeds.

Let them mix with the soil.

In February, Marc plows the soil and forces his "workers" - earthworms - to transform it into organic matter.

"As soon as the land is plowed, I re-compact it with cast iron rollers, so as to keep all the moisture in the bottom of the ground", explains the market gardener.

He defends a hard education of his vegetables.

“If when a vegetable is thirsty, we give it something to drink, when it is hungry, we give it food, when it has insects, we kill them... No!

A vegetable must fend for itself,” he says.

And in these times of drought, Marc notices that his vegetables are radiant.

“Before dying, a vegetable always thinks of reproducing.

And right now, the vegetables think that they will soon have nothing to drink.

So they make even more fruit than usual!

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