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Demo — fictional farm, no orders possible

La Ferme du Pré Brûlé
Call the farm on 02 61 91 72 19Order

Orders until Wednesday 8 pm

At dawn, rows of leeks and kale covered in dew, wooden crates, a long polytunnel lit by the rising sun and a stone farmhouse in the mist.

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Sold direct · Brévaux-sur-Huisne, Sarthe

Vegetables picked the day before, collected close to home

In Brévaux-sur-Huisne, Élise, Thomas and Yanis grow vegetables in the field and under polytunnels, and keep hens and chickens on grass. Order by Wednesday 8 pm; we harvest on Thursday.

Next pick-up: Friday 23 October

Orders until Wednesday 21 October, 8 pm

Order my box (in French)See pick-up points

Order my box (in French)

Ordering happens in French: products, prices and pick-up slots are listed on the French page. Go to the French shop (Commander mon panier).

The farm and its people

Three people, three hectares

Élise and Thomas Lebreton took over the farm in 2014, with its hedges and old stone farmhouse. Yanis joined them in 2021. Fictional characters, like the farm.

  • Élise, in her forties, chestnut hair tied back, khaki jacket and apron, holds a crate of carrots and leeks at the edge of the field.

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    Élise Lebreton

    Market gardener

    Élise looks after the vegetables: sowing, crop rotation, Thursday's harvest. She also runs the Saturday stall.

  • Thomas, in his forties, greying beard, body warmer and checked shirt, holds a basket of eggs in the yard, hens behind him.

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    Thomas Lebreton

    Poultry farmer

    Thomas raises the hens and chickens, moves the hen house every week and prepares the poultry.

  • Yanis, in his twenties, curly black hair, rust fleece, carries a crate of lettuces and kale at the entrance of the polytunnel.

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    Yanis Morel

    Farm worker

    Yanis has been here since 2021: polytunnel, washing, packing the boxes and the Le Mans delivery run.

A harvest day

  1. Élise, crouching between rows of leeks at dawn, pulls up a leek; a crate of carrots and leeks beside her.

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    6:30 am

    Harvest at dawn

    We harvest in the cool, when vegetables are full of water: they keep better until pick-up.

  2. Yanis washes carrots and leeks in a large stainless steel tub under the stone shelter, crates of carrots and beetroot behind him.

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    9 am

    Washing

    Roots go through the tub, lettuces stay whole. Nothing is wrapped in plastic except lamb's lettuce and spinach.

  3. Thomas, kneeling on the run, scatters grain for the brown hens in front of the mobile hen house.

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    11 am

    The poultry

    The mobile hen house moves every week: the grass grows back behind it and the hens find plenty to scratch.

  4. In the pick-up room, wooden crates packed under each customer's name, filled with vegetables, eggs and lettuces.

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    2 pm

    Packing the boxes

    Each order is packed under its name, in a returnable crate, with the weights listed.

  5. The market stall under the covered market: Élise and Thomas behind a wooden counter loaded with squash, leeks and lettuces.

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    Saturday

    The market

    The stall, built by the Compas & Copeau workshop (also fictional), is the pick-up point under the covered market.

How we farm, in plain words

  • No synthetic sprays

    No synthetic weedkillers or insecticides: mulch, insect nets and regular hoeing.

  • Rotations and green manure

    A vegetable family doesn't return to the same bed for four years; between crops we sow phacelia or rye.

  • Hedges replanted

    800 metres of hedges since 2015: they break the wind and shelter the birds that eat slugs.

  • Poultry outdoors

    Hens and chickens have access to a grassy run all day, moved every week.

Practices of a fictional farm, described for the demo. No certification is claimed.

Inside the polytunnel: rows of lettuces and spinach, the last tomatoes and raspberry canes, a wooden crate in the path.

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The wooden mobile hen house on its grassy run, surrounded by brown hens, with the farmhouse and polytunnel in the misty distance.

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Open day

Come and see the farm on Saturday 7 November

Tours of the fields and polytunnel at 2:30 pm and 4 pm, squash soup tasting, meet the hens. Free entry, boots recommended.

Saturday 7 November 2026, 2 pm – 5:30 pm

At the farm, Le Pré Brûlé, Brévaux-sur-Huisne (fictional)