“One day, a client told me that I had sap running through my veins.
To tell the truth, I'm a vegetarian, I feel invested with a mission and, anyway, I don't know how to do anything else!
» Clément Crété, 39, nurseryman in Lagresguimont-Saint-Martin, in the Somme, gave his body to the forest and that is a good thing;
at a time when the French (and their leaders) seem to have a passion for trees and hedges.
Since 2005, he has co-directed, with his brother Pierre, the family business founded in 1976 by their father Antoine, 70, who passed on to them the passion for… reforestation.
After often difficult years, earning “not a penny”, their profession has regained its letters of nobility “We persisted and we did well.
For three years, we have been experiencing our best years because there is a real desire to plant which did not exist ten years ago, the best example are these mini-forests which are growing in the city.
We have doubled the activity, we have expanded to 60 hectares, we have 25 permanent employees and around twenty seasonal workers.
To hire someone, we tell them: “Come, you’re going to help us save the world!”
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