0:14Hi my name is Moreno, owner and operator of Aromath Farm, here in the eastern countryside of France. The size of the farm is a third of an acre.

0:25It's an old family-style orchard that we converted last year from a grass field into the farm it is today.

0:33We've got a small nursery where we do all the seeding of our crops. we've got a large greenhouse where we do all the tomatoes, some peppers... All in all we've got over 105 beds, full on production right now.

0:49The story of our farm really dates back to early 2013 when my wife and I met for the first time in New Zealand on a mandarine farm. It was really something that grabbed our attention.

1:00We really liked the lifestyle of it. All of this was in monoculture agriculture, pesticide

1:07ridden agriculture, if you will. From that point we exchanged some documentaries with a friend that we met over there on one of the farms, and we were looking at the documentary,

1:17and we were looking outside, and we were like, there's a huge difference!

1:21We actually got back to France where my wife was born and raised in the area here, and

1:28that's when we decided to get into full time market gardening, because its one of the lowest barrier to entry types of farms you can start.

1:42So when we arrived here for the first time, everything was in full production, in terms of all the grasses and the weeds. We opted for an initial tillage of the soil.

1:53We created the raised beds, we got two large trucks full of compost, and we started moving it wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow.

2:05Once we developed all these beds we started mulching all the pathways with the wood chips.

2:12We moved into a no-till system, where we do not even use a broadfork anymore. We continuously

2:19keep adding compost and organic matter to the beds, and this is feeding all of our crops.

2:28And it’s worked out pretty great so far.

2:42So here at Aromath farm, since we're just a third of an acre, we have to be pretty deliberate about the crops we are growing. We cannot just start growing potatoes, onions, leeks,

2:52cabbages. Those things are not profitable on the size we are working with. So we are really focusing on the bunching roots, like beets, radishes, carrots, turnips.

3:03Lots of leafy greens like arugula, mizuna, salad greens.

3:09The use of the Quick-Cut Greens Harvester really allowed us to double down on the production of what normally would be more difficult to grow for other farmers.

3:30Before we started this farm we just had a newborn, her name is Nola. She was just two

3:39months old when we got into this place, so we knew already we wanted to farm. We wanted her to have an environment where she can just walk outside,

3:49put her hands in the soil, and just be dirty, if you will. Myself, I grew up in a city environment, and I actually missed,

3:59without knowing it, this kind of aspect of living. And being able to provide that for our daughter right now is really something that is really important to us.

4:12When we transplant a crop into the bed, she comes behind us to actually take it out

4:18and transplant it back, not always the way it should be done, but that’s OK. And these things, we have to let them free in these kind of things as well, and it’s beautiful to see that she is picking up things so fast.

4:31For us its life.

4:38We need more small scale farmers. We need more people farming in a way that is both

4:45beneficial to themselves, in the first place, but as well to their neighbors, to the local community, the wider community, as well as for the environment.

5:06If I could show by example that there is another way of growing food,

5:12then my mission is a success.