The State of Agriculture in Occitanie 2020 report confirms the region as Frances’s second most important agricultural region. With 64;200 farms providing employment 194,000 a full time or seasonal workers, 7.4% of the working population…
There is a missing organic generation of farmers. I was at the Fete Paysanne de l”Aude selling our herbs, meeting organic farming friends from around the Department and slowly sweating to death in my mask…
L’Aude a la Bio is Nature et Progres Aude annual organic festival,held on the banks of the river Aude in the park at Couiza on the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of August. This…
The Agence Bio report on organic production and consumption in France in 2018 has just been published, 4th June. The results are rather astounding. 2018 saw 5,000 new organic farms being set up, or converted…
Organic rules, what organic rules are and what they are not. The rise in organic consumption across Europe is being primarily lead by the increasing presence of organic produce in the supermarket chains, the supply…
Where do you find organic fruit trees in the Aude? Unlike the Pyrenees Orientale which is famously called the fruit basket of France, will its three major valleys dotted with fruit tree groves the Aude…
Organic Certification is a weird idea. In effect we organic producers, transformers and resellers have to pay an authorised Organic Certification Organisation to prove that we do not do things, we do not use organically…
Organic Certification Organisations are strange things; not unpleasant, far from it, but strange nevertheless. Organic Certification Organisations are civil not state structures, it varies from country to country, some are charities, others companies, some associations….
This book is a superb introduction from Green Books to a tried and tested organic gardening technique perfected by Charles Dowding over 25 years of hands on experience. A highly productive vegetable garden that involves…
Nothing tastes quite like summer that a salad of freshly picked home grown organic tomatoes, sliced and sprinkled with basil and olive oil. A glass of chilled Corbieres Rose is a lovely companion, as are…
