French Farmers Furious at EU Over Green Agriculture Rollback
After four days of protesting, farmer Florent Sebban was back on his farm. As the rain fell gently on the fields, he hoisted a sledgehammer overhead before driving it down on a wooden stake. He needed to secure his apple trees before spring.
“I think what I enjoy the most about farming is the link we have with customers,” he says.
Sebban’s farm is situated an hour outside of Paris and feeds 120 families in his community. Everything is organic. Not once, he says, has he used chemical fertilizers or pesticides on his hundreds of fruit, vegetable, and herb plants.
“All over this field is clover,” he explains. “It brings nitrogen to our soils… which is the most important thing for plants to grow.”
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French farmers furious at EU over green agriculture roll back
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