Wheelbarrows and shopping bags are visibly filling up in the shade of fruit-laden apple trees. On this Thursday in August, on a sunny afternoon, there are many who dominate the cultivated fields of the Versailles plain for a few hours. Since 1983, la cueillette de Gally in Bailly has opened its 60 hectares of market gardening, horticulture and arboriculture to visitors who want to pick their own fruit and vegetables.
For Chantal, who came from Essonne with her sister, this experience is a great first. The idea of a country walk, at the end of which they would leave with a basket of raspberries, made him come. Finally, the Fifties beckoned. Rhubarb, apples, and tomatoes were added to the bill. “The prices here are a little lower than at the store where I shop, he notes. I pay 30 cents less for tomatoes. But given the work it entails, we better understand…
Source: Le Figaro
