Gigny-Bussy is one small commune of the department of Marne, France. Usually the people who go there do so by the way or to enjoy their landscapes and wooden architecture. Throughout the last weeks its main claim has been nevertheless another good: a enormous gigantic mountain formed by More than 500 tons of potatoes stacked in the middle of a field.
His farmer failed to find a hole in the market, so he made hearts and made a peculiar decision: to give them among their convecinos.
What happened? That Gigny-Bussy, a commune that does not reach the 300 inhabitantsHe is hoarding headlines For a curious reason: a mountain of potatoes available to anyone who wants to approach bags, bags, cars or even trucks to take them free. The French newspaper L´unionone of the first to give The newscalculate that there may be more than 500 tons of tubers stacked near the D396a road that crosses hectares of crops.
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And what do they do there? If it is not usual to meet a mountain of potatoes stacked in the field, outdoors, it is less frequent that this gigantic battery is available to whoever wants to take the tubers home. If it has happened in Gigny-Bussy (Marne) is basically thanks to a local farmer who, not being able to sell part of his harvest and to prevent gender from being rotting under the summer sun, decided to mount the largest potato -free buffet in the world.
The farmer in question is not known. Only it is from Aube, it has land in Marne and has encountered the dilemma of what to do with the hundreds of tons of potatoes of the last harvest they have not managed to sell.
Maintaining the merchandise in the warehouse costs him money and the perspective of letting it rot also neither convinced him, so, taking into account that the tubers are edible, he decided to stack them close to a path so he can collect them who needs them. If something is left over, it will spread through the fields, as a fertilizer.
How did people respond? The news jumped end of July And the potato free assortment was available for several, enough for all kinds of people to join. There were those who went to fill a couple of bags, who left with the trunk of the car to overflow with tubers even, Slide L´unionwho saw a more than doubtful ethics business opportunity.
“Those who came before we said that they rendered what they took to 15 euros at 20 kg. And they came several times this week,” Explain to the newspaper a neighbor of the area who claimed to collect potatoes only for self -consumption.
Are there more testimonies? Yes. And not everyone goes in that line. Christophe, a 68 -year -old man who passed through the area by car accompanied by his family, account That caught the amount of people in the field, so he decided to approach. “We saw a lot of cars around a lot of potatoes and we thought: ‘Why can’t we take advantage of us too.” No sooner said than done. Shortly after his trunk filled with his wife, daughter and grandchildren.
“The potatoes are not cheap. So when you can get them for free, you should not deprive yourself,” he confesses. He is not the only one who thinks like that. Dylan, a thirty from Saint-Dizier, Explain That a few years ago it was already made with a 600 kg lot that carefully stored in the cellar of his house between straw. “It is well preserved, but I have nothing left. So when I learned that here it was, I came to serve me.”
Is it a unique case? No. Christine, another neighbor who supplied in Gigny Bussy, explains that days before he had already collected potatoes in Sapignicourt in similar circumstances. “It’s fantastic because it helps avoid waste and allows everyone to benefit,” celebrate. Just a few days ago France info He reported For example, the case of a farmer from La Gorgue who found McCain rejected part of his harvest because, in his opinion, he did not adjust to his quality standards.
Given the perspective of storing the remaining genre in their stores until it ended up deteriorating, the farmer made a peculiar decision: he offered about 50 tons of tuber to those who wanted to take it home. The only requirement was to pay before a symbolic ‘entry’ of ten euros that gives the right to collect the amount of potatoes you want. “It is a great initiative for neighbors. Apart from being sad for him, it is a pretty gesture,” confesses A resident.
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