“I am a neo-rural rural person. » Born in the house bought by her grandmother at the very beginning of the 20th centurye century, Marie-Laure Leplat decided, at the start of her professional life, to leave the Ornaise countryside and work in communications in Paris.
When family reasons repatriated her to the Montabard area (Orne) in 2010, the question of continuing the activity of her father and grandfather did not arise. “Calvados is a remarkable product that has no reason to be ashamed of other spirits,” advances the farmer attached to making “something that does no harm”.
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“We can’t just take”
Because agriculture is about it: we must adapt to what nature wants to give. “My father told me: “We can’t just take from the trees. It needs to rest.” »
Without mechanical equipment (the apples are picked one by one by hand) and without chemicals from the tree to the bottle,…
