VERACRUZ → BASSE-CALIFORNIE → VANCOUVER → HALIFAX
Farming being reinvented, farm by farm.
Nine months on the road, from Mexico to Canada: the crops, machines, soils and people changing how food is grown. And for every farm, one question: could it work in France?
First notebook: coming soon, from Mexico
01 · The route
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Veracruz
Mexique
02
Basse-Californie
Mexique
03
Côte Ouest
États-Unis
04
Colombie-Britannique
Canada
05
Prairies
Canada
06
Nouvelle-Écosse
Canada
02 · The field sheet
Every farm visited gets a standard sheet: four criteria scored out of 5 and a verdict on whether it could work in France.
03 · Who writes
A family, a van and nine months on the roads of North America, meeting the people shaping tomorrow's agriculture.
Bruno Tachet — founder of Terravise, self-taught explorer of agricultural innovation
My name is Bruno Tachet. My career has been anything but a straight line: electrical technician, restaurateur, DGAC-certified drone pilot, then Digital Business Developer at Sumi Agro, where I led innovative projects with farmers. I'm not an agronomist: I'm self-taught, learning in the field by listening, asking questions and imagining practical solutions.
Several projects grew out of these conversations: a clip for attaching pheromone dispensers in vineyards, for which a patent application has been filed, a drone service to keep birds away from crops, and now Tour de Plaine, an app for recording field observations by voice.
With Terravise, I'm setting off for nine months from Mexico to Canada via the United States, travelling with my family in Balou, our VW T3. My aim: to visit farms, understand what works elsewhere and bring back useful ideas for French agriculture.
Are you a farmer, researcher or entrepreneur with an innovation to share? Write to me: our route might take us near you.
Get notified at launch
One email for the first notebook, then one a week, no more.