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"Water, fertilizers, it's easy": in Essonne, Marco grows his vegetables without any irrigation

2022-08-01T19:10:51.096Z


Like his grandfather before him, Marc Mascetti, known as Marco, grows his vegetables in Marcoussis (Essonne) without bringing them the slightest drop of


" The water ?

There has never been one here and there never will be.

I dug, in several places and deep, but there is none.

Marc Mascetti, says Marco, is not a market gardener like the others.

For more than thirty years that he has been cultivating his tomatoes, onions and other aubergines without a drop of water on the 20 ha of family land in Marcoussis (Essonne), this producer has forged a solid reputation to the point of becoming the market gardener star of the Parisian stalls.

If his bagou, his outspokenness and his legendary good nature have something to do with it, his vision of agriculture certainly has a lot to do with it.

Against the tide, Marco claims his freedom: for him, high temperatures and lack of water are not a problem… provided he is not afraid of longer days.

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Source: leparis

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