The search for new farmers for Maisons continues, at the moment Maisons has three farmers, all of us plants or tree growers. There is a fair chunk of pasture exploited by two shepherds form outside…

Everybody is talking about drought  in our corner of France, the Hautes Corbieres what is going on and what does it mean for farming, gardens, and what type of Summer can we expect. It certainly…

It is Spring, well almost, the temperature is rising and so are the prices, inflation hits hard on an agricultural enterprise. Two simple facts brought that home to me the last two weeks. Last week…

The French word paysanne does not really have an English equivalent, peasant is the literal translation. But in English peasant carries with it a belittling, a sort of mixture of backwardness, and animal cunning, with…