Agnes and Richard, farmers engaged, are engaged in the AMAP system for three years. That means: direct production completely to a number of famous people with whom they contract.
This allows them to know in advance the cost of production and invest without going through the box "bank credit" usually inevitable.
By cons, it drives them to ensure their production, regardless of the hazards (climatic, economic, etc.) and therefore sometimes hard to fight to get there. For although these uncertainties are taken into account in contracts they make a point of honor to respect their commitments.
the amapiens, they have fresh, organic, picked the day. They discover the vegetables, those that do not often see in markets, but also the lives of their neighboring farmers, the seasons, patterns of production, nature ... By contract, they must move at least once at the farm, participate in distributions of vegetables, etc..
And after? Mode sores doomed to zap? Over these three years, meetings were held, friendships are born. Martial, Colas has shared his passion for birds, Raoul Nitrate, her eyes tender and comical about farm life, Issouf Ag Maha's call for help from his forgotten people, etc..
links have been forged over the picnics and workshops at the farm. exchanges took place during the distributions.
But above all, moral commitments were born between work and neighbors, trusting relationship outside the system. most time, when we agree in the contract, it is with a credit agency, a bank. Something completely impersonal, and that reassures us, however, more than those we see every day, despite the scandals that have plunged into crisis. We zap a purchase to another, from one mode to another without much time to reflect on our impact on the economy. we choose the shelves of stores, where we can train our own pace.
AMAP, beyond a desire for nature, is born a citizen will, farmers and people, to promote agriculture more environmentally sound . But it is also a great place to re-learn to ask and think together, work together, agree to know, accept, trust, re-establish close ties, re-learn the rhythm of the seasons ... .
If it was a fad, it would be really worrying for the future. Fortunately, this mode would be over thirty years has never ceased in Japan or the United States. It grows exponentially in France. It's a chance to live, let them cast!
