Josée Chicoine, from animals to the planet
Warwick, does that mean anything to you? This surely rings a bell (from Pavlov!) to fans of farmhouse cheeses from the old presbytery of Sainte-Élizabeth-de-Warwick. But what few people still know...
Carole-Anne Lapierre, the woman who thrives on organic food
It is not because our parents and grandparents dug their roots into the subsoil of Montreal East that we are forced to dream of oil refining or chemical factories. Oh, no! Ask Carole-Anne Lapierre...
Ronan Corcuff, the art of making choux pasta
Humanity has not dreamed of transforming raw materials to enrich them, treat illnesses and prolong life. More than 2,000 years ago, Chinese alchemists already claimed to know how to convert lead i...
Marie-Élise Samson, the taste of nourishing earth
It's simple. During her youth, Marie-Élise Samson was literally passionate about horse riding. The young girl from Saint-Nicolas spent all her summers at an equestrian center. The rest of the year...
Jennifer Côté, conquering the other Milky Way
We are not born a pioneer, we become one! Jennifer Côté knows something about this. Raised in the suburbs of Montreal in a family where meat took pride of place on the table, she was completing he...
Claude Vallée, the man who breathes chlorophyll
The year the Beatles recorded Lucy in the Sky with Diamond s at the Abbey Road studios, Claude Vallée had a revelation in Boucherville. Installed at the living room window of his parents' modest 4...
Patrick Mundler, rural recipes
In Quebec, during the COVID crisis , how many times have we heard that our food supplies are at risk? In fact, some may have run out of toilet paper, but no one experienced starvation. The system ...
Julie Francoeur, the lot of femems
Before even looking at the official statistics, we quickly see that girls are now more numerous than guys at universities. They also have more college diplomas. Does this mean that on the job mark...
Stéphane Godbout, the scent harnesser
Some might ask the question. Was Stéphane Godbout, yes or no, influenced by the song All spread out? Remember. THE hit by Robert Charlebois tells the crazy adventure of a guy who studies prestress...
Anne Blondlot, adapt at all costs
On earth, as in the universe, everything changes. Unfortunately, since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has contributed to global warming at a rate 50 times greater than all volcanoes, oc...
It is said that human beings are influenced by the conditions in which they enter the world. It's undeniable, but some impress with their determination to defy their original destiny. Aisha Issa i...
Ana-Maria Martin, doing more with less
A short distance from McGillivray Bay on the Richelieu River, long plots of corn surround a large red-gabled house, four grain silos and a series of farm buildings. In the courtyard, an above-grou...
Yves Daoust, the master of strawberries
At 22, it was very clear in his head. Yves Daoust felt like an engineer at heart. He then left the family farm in Vaudreuil and the shores of Lac des Deux Montagnes to immerse himself in the wor...
Paul Larouche, the alchemist of soil
The Earth is already salivating. The chef has gathered all the ingredients and is preparing to cook up a recipe that's really not worm-inducing. Seasoned with a generous amount of carbon-rich sh...
Alain Chandonnet, the charmer of light
It came into existence the year the prototype Apollo spacecraft was launched, the carbon dioxide laser was invented, the Higgs boson and the quark model were discovered. 1964 also opened the doo...
Valérie Toupin-Dubé, leadership incarnate
15 years ago, city dwellers outnumbered those living in the fields. A first in the history of humanity. Is it any wonder then that over the last few decades the next generation of farmers has decl...
Isabelle Roy, the promoter of local products
Casually, over the past thirty years, the implementation of free trade treaties has had the effect of reducing Quebec's food autonomy from 80% to 30%. The pandemic and the supply difficulties it...
Jean-François Gauthier, methane tracker
Southern Europe is burning, California is thirsty, Asia is drowning in the violence of monsoons and typhoons. Despite increasingly marked climate change on the planet, some continue to remain opti...
Dominic Lamontagne, the last rampart
With his mane of steel wool held in a bridle by a ponytail gathered in a bun, Dominic Lamontagne has the look of a Percheron kicking into the stretchers. Not one to put the cart before the horse, ...
Bryan Denis, the breeder who doesn't cow
The best is the enemy of good. If there is one who has never been convinced by this 18th century proverb, it is Bryan Denis. His family, rooted for five generations on Chemin Taché Ouest in Saint-...
Caroline Dufour-The Arrival, The Lady in Green
When you are born in Grand-Métis on the land of the largest egg producer in the lower St. Lawrence and every summer of your childhood you visit the Jardins de Métis and pay homage to the emblemati...
Nicolas Paquin and David Dupaul-Chicoine, lowland fishermen
At the Central Market, a stone's throw from the Guzzo cinema which serves as a lighthouse, two young freshwater sailors have doubled the cape of Best Buy and walked along the Canadian Tire before...
Audrey Bélanger and Guillaume Lalumière, tenacity personified
Who would have believed, ten years ago, that our good old lands would end up being worth their weight in gold and costing an eye-watering price? In a decade, low interest rates, soaring grain pr...
Jennifer Hayes, the art of making your butter well
She was rocked by the Baie-des-Chaleurs, grew up near the stream that descends from the Chic-Chocs to flow into Shigawake Cove. She is the third generation of the Hayes family to take care of a ...