Friendly hobbies or businesses in their own right, urban farms are proliferating in France.
In the XXIand century, the fable of La Fontaine The City Rat and the Field Rat going to have a hard time convincing. Tomatoes, lettuces and radish plants are now growing at the edge of parking lots, on roofs and in containers at room temperature. The era of urban farms has begun.
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“It is a movement reminiscent of that of the neo-rurals of thirty-five years agodeciphers Anne-Cécile Daniel, national coordinator of the French Association of Urban Agriculture (AFAUP). The creation of our association in 2016 is the reflection of a craze for this practice, further accelerated by the health crisis and the revaluation of short circuits. AFAUP brings together more than 110 urban agriculture structures, for 1150 jobs. But urban farms actually employ far more people, and not all of them are meant to be profitable enterprises. “They have various legal formsobserves Anne-Cécile Daniel. There are associations, SAS and a few very rare companies…
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