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"Walking around the Grand Pic Saint-Loup with an "agricultural" eye allows you to perceive its diversity..."

Marc Pratlong from La Cabane Paysanne

Walking around the Grand Pic Saint-Loup with an "agricultural" eye allows you to perceive its diversity: plateaux of garrigue, therefore an ultrasec environment, with sheep farming; then plains, such as the London basin, where water accumulates in the subsoil, which allows cereal, legume and market gardening crops to be grown," explains Marc Pratlong, creator of Aromatiques du Pic Saint-Loup and La Cabane paysanne.

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In any case, the best way to meet local producers is to go to the markets in the communes: short circuits guaranteed! For example, the "Autumn Day" to be held on the esplanade of Viols-en-Laval on 9 October, from 11am to 5pm, will feature a market of local producers and craftsmen.

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Reportage : Chantal Lamarque
Photo : Alain Hampartzoumian
Réalisé en partenariat avec la Gazette de Montpellier - Parution le 29 septembre 2022.

For our part, we will be organising events in Saint-Martin-de-Londres, from 10 to 16 October, as part of the 5th edition of the Autumn Festival of the Farmers' Shops Network.

  

The production of pélardons in the Buèges valley, the free-range rearing of cows and pigs on the Rouet plateau are just some of the agricultural activities present in the Grand Pic Saint-Loup, not forgetting the production of olives, honey and saffron... 

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