As a reminder: We still had to move our small farm … 5 semi-trailers, 3 trips by horse truck, 2 trucks of 50m cubic. We felt like a circus. We arrived there on April 1, 2007 with luggage and children . What an adventure but it was only the beginning ...
Luckily, the previous owner had not put chemical fertilizers on the meadows for more than 3 years, so the pastures of the farm were all immediately recognized as organic . The Moisière covered 102ha, including 20ha of crops, which allowed us to quickly become self-sufficient by cultivating our own cereals for mares . We bought a 40 groin of mares Percheronnes in the countryside throughout the winter of 2006 in order to create our herd of these beautiful and tender horses endemic . The peasant from whom we had bought the farm , kept them and fed them with cereals and hay organic so that in June 2007 their milk is recognized as organic and that we can enter the most dynamic distributor of organic products in France at the time
Sales of milk fresh pasteurized started quickly thanks to our distributor. We had the impression of responding to a expectation from customers of the organic network who knew about mare's milk and responded to our offer of this pasteurized milk , unique in the world , still today besides
The word of mouth has gained ground, the quality of our products has remained our priority and the sales of milk powder developed. The Internet has become indispensable, which allows us today to send mare's milk all over the world . Chevalait has become in 10 years the French and European leader in terms of production and marketing of organic mare's milk and derived products
The word of mouth has gained ground, the quality of our products has remained our priority and the sales of milk powder developed. The Internet has become indispensable, which allows us today to send mare's milk all over the world . Chevalait has become in 10 years the French and European leader in terms of production and marketing of organic mare's milk and derived products
We learned countless things from our horses whose number increased each year by 40 young fillies who in turn would become dairy mares. We have given birth to more than 1000 draft colts in 15 years and to date, we give birth to more than 10% of the total Percherons born in France
Today, we have around 200 draft horses including a majority of Percheronnes born here, beautiful, sweet, maternal and generous and who do the job of dairy mares with calm and pleasure
We have given a chance to hundreds of foals and fillies who work in the vines, in the woods, in the harness or as broodmares and stallions. Horses born here sometimes live on the other side of the world and we are proud of that
End of this series of 4 episodes
Julie Decayeux