Archive for the ‘road’ category
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Something else Isigny is famous for…
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
At the end of every year, it is common to see oyster sellers outside the entrances to French supermarket entrances. Everywhere you look, there will be tables piled high with France’s favourite seasonal seafood: marquees filled with boxes of oysters of all sizes destined for new year celebrations. Depending on the region, the sellers will [...]
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Back to the land
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Terroir is another word for a living and working environment, one in which food is produced. Production quality and environmental quality are two sides of the same coin: there is a further aspect of Isigny Sainte-Mère’s wood-powered biomass boiler project that literally goes back to the land. The cooperative is studying a use for the [...]
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Environment fit for a terroir (2)
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Terroir is another word for a living and working environment, one in which food is produced. Production quality and environmental quality are two sides of the same coin: there is an international standard that allows this to be monitored by businesses, it is the ISO 14001. The Isigny Sainte-Mère dairy cooperative this year became the [...]
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Model Dairy puts business into butter
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Louis Dupont presented the Model Dairy’s sales ledger every month to the milk producers so that there could be no doubt as to what their hard work was worth. Since butter is 80% butterfat, it was logical to pay for milk in proportion to its fat content and what the finished butter was earning in [...]
