Permaculture: healing the earth, feeding people
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La ferme du Bec Hellouin In 2004, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer created the Ferme du Bec Hellouin in Haute-Normandie. Today, the farm is a benchmark in natural agriculture, attracting visitors from all over the world. This is the story of a family who, in just a few years, succeeded in creating a generous oasis of life on marginal land. It's also a wide-ranging investigation carried out around the world, meeting agricultural pioneers who are exploring innovative avenues and inventing the world of tomorrow.
Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer's approach is based on permaculture. Its principle is to take nature as a model and design human installations that function as productive, resource-efficient ecosystems. The results obtained at the Bec Hellouin farm, thanks to the energy of the sun, astound agronomists today: working entirely by hand, Charles and Perrine produce abundant, high-quality harvests on a very small area, while creating humus, enhancing biodiversity, beautifying landscapes and storing carbon in soils and trees. An agronomic study carried out in partnership with eminent researchers demonstrates the social, economic and ecological relevance of permaculture farming, which outlines a new way of farming in the 21st century, a potential source of millions of jobs.
Perrine Hervé-Gruyer pursued a career as a lawyer in Asia before devoting herself to psychotherapy. Trained as an educator, Charles Hervé-Gruyer criss-crossed the globe aboard the sail training ship Fleur de Lampaul for twenty-two years. He is the author of numerous documentaries and books on nature. Both have since become farmers and permaculture instructors.
Perrine et Charles Hervé-Gruyer - Éditions Actes Sud - 372 pages
