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After a Summer of Drought, Vegetables and Market Gardeners Return to Colours

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Elliott Breau, 22, belongs to the fourth generation of this large family farm (100 hectares, of which 20 are organic) in Villebernier, near Saumur, a few hundred meters from the Loire, whose waters are still very low at the beginning of October. It is "not at all discouraged" by this exhausting summer which, according to him, allowed to "improve (their) practices" and "try new things". The sandy soil of the region is ideal for market gardening a…

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Elliott Breau, 22, belongs to the fourth generation of this large family farm (100 hectares, of which 20 are organic) in Villebernier, near Saumur, a few hundred meters from the Loire, whose waters are still very low at the beginning of October. It is "not at all discouraged" by this exhausting summer which, according to him, allowed to "improve (their) practices" and "try new things". The sandy soil of the region is ideal for market gardening a…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The Breau farm, which has been operated as a family for four generations near Saumur, has been through a summer of heat and drought by changing its rhythm... Read more In Villebernier, the market gardeners planted their leeks at two o'clock in the morning to save their summer appeared first on Le Singulier.

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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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