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Le Jardin Potager de Loctudy, in Finist猫re, Brittany, was established in 1951 by L茅on Larnicol, who learned to grow fruit and vegetables during his time as a prisoner of war in Germany. He had the luck to be assigned to a family who produced flowers and a few vegetables, so when he arrived back in France after the war, he started growing flowers on a small patch of land but quickly realised that people needed food not flowers.

The farm was taken over by Luc Larnicol and his wife B茅atrice Le Douce in 1993 and they switched to organic farming methods nearly 20 years ago. 鈥淲ith all the chemicals we were using, and heating greenhouses to produce vegetables out of the season, we were polluting the earth, we weren鈥檛 in tune with nature. Oil tankers were spilling crude oil into the oceans to meet the demand for heating fuel, and we were heating our greenhouses but other people were dying of cold.鈥�

Today, B茅atrice and Luc run the 30-acre farm with a staff of around 12 people.They grow a wide variety of organic produce including parsnips and rhubarb, both of which are becoming increasingly popular in France. Twenty years ago, many people in France simply hadn鈥檛 heard of parsnips 鈥� panais in French. 鈥淧arsnips are still exotic in France. 麻豆传媒映画 don鈥檛 really know what to do with them. They might add just one to a soup, but the English roast them, mash them, use them in all sorts of ways.鈥�

They grow a huge variety of vegetables, because although they aren鈥檛 vegetarian, they find that vegetables offer more variety than meat, and there are so many ways to prepare them.

鈥淲e opened our own farm shop two years ago and it鈥檚 working well, although we were nervous at the start. But it鈥檚 great; we get to know our customers and people like the authenticity of buying direct from the farm. We work with other local producers so that we can offer other organic products as well as our own. We get a lot of British customers who really appreciate the freshness of our produce.鈥�