La Ferme de Grand Lieu

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Welcome to our farm.

We look forward to welcoming you and sharing our profession, our know-how and our passion with you. There are 3 of us working on the farm: Gwenaëlle, Pascal and Dorine (farm employee).

We try to ensure that our animals are as comfortable as possible on our farm, and for as long as possible. Our farm tries to promote animal welfare, grazing, organic farming and well-being at work. Our farm aims to be welcoming and open to all.

We want everyone to feel at home on our farm, whether they're just passing through or not. Respect for people, animals and nature is at the heart of our work. Our farm is a place for socializing, sharing, helping and meeting.

That's why working with the animals (milking, fetching them from the pasture, etc.) is inseparable from our work in the cheese dairy, so that we can understand what's at stake on our farm. How can we talk about cheese hygiene if we don't take milking parlour hygiene into account? How can we talk about cheese color if we don't know our pastures and hay?

Half our surface area is in the marshes of Lac de Grand Lieu. As a result, our farm is entirely focused on this nature reserve. We live with the seasons, adapting the grazing of our animals to the rise and fall of the lake's waters.

Working in this magnificent setting naturally led us to sign up to the "paysan de nature" charter, in order to welcome a high level of biodiversity to our farm, and to think together about how to do this: widening the hedges, for example.

We're also keen to share our work with others, and regularly welcome trainees who are retraining or coming from agricultural training schemes. But it's also with the general public that we want to talk about this beautiful profession of farming, and the fact that a different kind of agriculture is possible. We want our farm to be a place where everyone feels welcome and at ease. That's why we hold regular events at our weekly market for organic and farm produce, and organize special events such as concerts and open houses.

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