The microoffemes produce on small surface, with a maximum of earth care and respect for biodiversity, and outside the industrial sales networks. They produce and sell locally for people in their region.
For example, the Jardin des Turricules, located in Cernier in the canton of Neuchâtel, cultivates on an area of 8,700 m2 and offers weekly baskets and is also present at the Neuchâtel markets on Saturday and Cernier on Wednesday.
But the garden of Turricles also delivers several restaurants in the region such as the Cardinal brewery in Neuchâtel, the Aubier in Montezillon, the Foundation The Neige in Hauts-Geneveys, von Bergen in La Sagne and the green canteen in Cornaux.
For market gardeners from the Jardin des Turricules, which restaurants love in their collaboration “It is the freshness, the proximity and the relationship of direct trust they have with us”.
In the fields of the microoferm of turricles, there are cultivated around sixty different vegetables including expressions for restaurants such as jalapenos, tomatillos, color radishes, cardons, mescluns, and many others.
The restaurants are looking for original products and the Marco and Jonas challenge, the market gardeners of the Turricles, is to produce them!
