Let's support them by continuing to consume their products!

Apply what you preach!

"That's what I did today when I picked up my vegetable basket at Ferme Saint Aignan at Baptiste MEGARD's (Agriculture, 2012, Beauvais)," says Caroline LELONG, Alumni Network Manager. So just like me, support the Alumni, farmers in the Rouen region who are struggling to regain the confidence of the locals..."

Almost a month ago, some 3,000 producers in Seine-Maritime, Somme, Oise and Aisne were forced to throw their production out of the greenhouse following the fire at the Lubrizol factory in Rouen. While the Prefect of Normandy Pierre-André DURAND announced on Friday 18 October that he was lifting the last restrictions on the marketing of agricultural products, reporting the results of compliant analyses, it is now important for customers to come back and consume farm produce, otherwise "It's a double penalty," says Baptiste, who also thinks of his two employees. Especially since we are not in the markets. Everything is sold directly to us. So, customers have to come to us.... »

Several Alumni such as Aline CATOIR (Agriculture, 2006, Beauvais) or Augustin GUEROULT (Agriculture, 2012, Beauvais) have intervened in several media (press, TV newspaper) to raise public awareness of the disaster that is hitting them...

Now it is time for each of us to meet these farmers and have a face-to-face dialogue and regain confidence in their production!