2023-07-30 06:30:11
In Chaillé-les-Marais (Vendée), in the heart of the Marais Poitevin, the harvesting season is in full swing Vendélice. Summer is the busiest time for melon growers and this year the season got off to a flying start. “We don’t really know where to turn” comments with a smile Sandrine Bogers, at the head of Vendélice alongside her two sisters, Ingrid and Émilie. Although the farm has been around since the 1970s, it didn’t really start producing melons until 1989. “With my sisters, we are the third generation. Our father loved melon from a very young age, smiles, nostalgic, Sandrine Bogers. One day he decided to go for it. With my mother, they were able to pass on the family passion to us. »
A French watermelon sweeter than the Spanish
Since then, melons have taken up more space (130 ha out of 319 ha) and other varieties have come to supplement the crops. For seven years, Vendélice has also been producing…
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