Agricultural engineer, Hervé Covès is what we call a nature lover. He advocates the planting of trees to restore the life of the soil.
It’s a mantra he repeats to anyone who wants to hear it: “Life is beautiful.” Hervé Covès, agricultural engineer for more than 35 years and Franciscan for 12 years, believes in living things. For him, it’s time to help farmers restore life to the soil so that nature can take back its rights and do what it does best: grow things.
The magical balance of nature
Agricultural engineer, Hervé Covès is what we call a nature lover. He advocates the planting of trees to restore the life of the soil.
In this first episode, he talks to us about his journey and the importance of the soil’s useful water reserve thanks to trees.
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Our friends the mushrooms
In this second episode, Hervé Covès tells us about the impact of climate change on the choice of tree species to put in his plots and the necessary decomposition of wood in the ground.
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Change the trees to help the plants
In this third episode, Hervé Covès tackles the subjects of water, societal changes to be made according to him and the sixth report of the IPCC.
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The castor method: a model to imitate
In this last episode, agricultural engineer Hervé Covès talks to us about beavers, Corrèze and the North…
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Eglantine Puel
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