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When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an ancient Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one acquired ever before farmed before. Charles had been circumnavigating the globe by sail, operating a floating institution that educated students about ecology and indigenous ethnicities. Perrine had been an international lawyer in Japan. Each acquired came back to France to start out a fresh life. Eventually, Perrine joined up with Charles in Normandy, and Le Ferme du Bec Hellouin was born. Bec Hellouin has since turn into a celebrated model of innovative, ecological agriculture in Europe, connected to countrywide and international organizations dealing with food security, heralded by movie star chefs as well as the Slow Food activity, and highlighted in the inspiring and COLCOA award-winning documentary film, Demain. Miraculous Abundance is the eloquent story of the couple's advancement from developing a farm to sustain their family to delving into an test in how to expand the most food possible, in the most ecological way possible, and create a farm model that can bring us into a post-carbon future when petrol is no more moving goods and services, energy is scarcer, and localization is a must. Today, the farm produces a number of vegetables using a mix of permaculture, bio-intensive, four-season, and natural farming techniques - as well as techniques gleaned from indigenous cultures throughout the world. It has some animals for eggs and dairy, horses for farming, a welcome center, a farm store, a permaculture institution, a bread range for artisan breads, greenhouses, a cidery, and a forge. It has also end up being the site of research centering about how small organic and natural farms like theirs might confront Europe's (and the world's) projected food turmoil.
