“If it’s to lock up the animals, there’s no way I’m going to continue”

Marine, born in 1987, grew up on the Treslemont farm, in Yssingeaux, alongside her parents Élisabeth and Jean-Luc Margerit. She signed her first contract on the farm in 2011 and has worked here full time since the end of Covid. Her partner, Charly, was hired two years ago. Today, “everything is going well on the farm” but the young woman, mother of Noémie and Camille, is wondering about her future installation as a farmer. If she takes over the farm, it will be the fourth generation of Margerits in Treslemont.

What would be your wish today?

“I would like to go back to a farm from the 1950s or 1960s. Those were the good times. Even though the peasants worked hard, they were united….