The first edition last year was the consequence of the cancellation of the agricultural show, due to a pandemic. The event has been renewed, and allows you to visit farms, breedings, fish farms… The opportunity to challenge received ideas, to ask farmers and breeders the questions you are asking yourself, and why not to arouse vocations?
Objective of these national days of agriculture: to create links and better understand each other, between farmers and neo-rurals explains Pauline Winocour-Lefevre, vice-president of the Yvelines department in charge of Rurality, Agriculture, food and circuits short.
A hundred activities, guided tours, demonstrations are offered in Ile-de-France, to discover the agricultural heritage that surrounds us, including in Paris. They are to be discovered on the interactive map.
At the INRA Center (National Institute for Agronomic Research) in Versailles-Grignon, the visit will begin in the laboratory with a workshop “Make the DNA of plants speak” and will continue in the facilities of the experimental unit and in the fields. Not far away, in Toussus-le-Noble, the brewery The Beer Garage will offer tastings and explanations on the production of its craft beers.
If, for example, you had the idea of dropping everything to raise goats in the Larzac, know that it is not necessarily necessary to go that far. Just go to the Châtenoy farm (77) to discover a sheep farm there, or even a few kilometers from Rambouillet to the La Noue farm (78) where goats reign supreme.
Claudie Le Quere is the farm manager of Ferme de la Noue, in Celle-les-Bordes. With two employees, they manage a farm of 400 goats which are milked a day, manufactures and sells cottage cheese and cheese, on site and via the Amap.
Conversions to jobs closer to nature have increased since the pandemic. If the profession of goat breeder interested mainly women, Claudie Le Quere sees more and more men becoming apprentices. In addition to the contact with her animals and the tranquility of the countryside, Claudie appreciates the contact with the customers who come to buy her cheeses and the transmission of her profession.