Press coverage
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- Article - Video
- 28/10/2025
Graduates of Staps, Sciences Po Lille or a biology engineer, these city dwellers are retraining with their boots on for a full year. Campus Cultive, a veritable university in the fields, prepares tomorrow's market gardeners from A to Z.
Ouest France
- Article - Video
- 20/09/2025
Based in Montaigu, in the Vendée region, Cultive Farm offers training in intensive organic market gardening, a method developed in Quebec that is attracting young people with no farming background. Little mechanized, this form of agriculture produces several dozen vegetables on small surfaces, a profitable model that also preserves the quality of life of the market gardeners.
France 3 Pays de la Loire
- Article
- 05/09/2025
Cultive, a company with a mission dedicated to the agroecological transition, provides training in small-scale market gardening, with the ultimate aim of creating half a thousand "viable, sustainable and humane" farms. An update from co-founder Baptiste Saulnier.
Ouest France
- Article - Radio
- 05/09/2025
In Montaigu-Vendée, an educational farming couple has launched a farm school. The farm already sells its produce, and at the same time trains young people who want to work in market gardening. At the start of the new school year in September 205, five students are on sandwich courses.
ICI - Pays de la Loire
- Article
- 03/09/2025
In the heart of the Vendée bocage, in Montaigu, a couple of agro-educators have launched Cultive, a demanding and inspiring training center. Their ambition: to pass on the knowledge, skills and tools needed to grow viable and nourishing bio-intensive farms.
We tomorrow
- Article
- 24/07/2025
Vendée-based Cultive raises €1.8 million to help future market gardeners set up in business!
Le Journal des Entreprises
- Article
- 22/07/2025
To develop its model of profitable, sustainable market garden farms on a national scale, the Vendée-based company has raised 1.8 million euros. Objective: to set up 470 farms in ten years and train 700 new market gardeners.
Les Echos
- Video
- 27/06/2025
Inaugurated last January, this innovative farm-school supports a new generation of farmers in the creation of bio-intensive and diversified micro-farms. Covering an area of around 5 hectares, project leaders learn how to combine market gardening, arboriculture and the raising of laying hens. The aim? To encourage the establishment of viable, sustainable small farms, while meeting the major challenge of renewing the farming generation.
TV Vendée
- Video
- 20/03/2025
Welcome to the school for market gardeners!
On the Cultive campus, Vanessa and Baptiste, market gardeners, pass on their know-how to the farmers of tomorrow. It's essential training, given that 60% to 70% of small farms fail after five years. Here, they experiment with and teach more sustainable agricultural models, combining theory and practice to better prepare for the future.
On the Cultive campus, Vanessa and Baptiste, market gardeners, pass on their know-how to the farmers of tomorrow. It's essential training, given that 60% to 70% of small farms fail after five years. Here, they experiment with and teach more sustainable agricultural models, combining theory and practice to better prepare for the future.
Government
- Video
- 06/05/2025
In the Vendée region, a couple took over a farm last October to launch a campus-style training program for apprentice market gardeners looking to set up in business.
France 3 Pays de La Loire
- Article
- 14/04/2025
Since October 2024, they have been working on the Mesnil farm in Montaigu-Vendée. Vanessa Correa and Baptiste Saulnier have launched their Cultive project, turning their farm into a school farm, training the organic market gardeners of tomorrow.
Ouest France
- Article
- 26/03/2025
Ferme du Mesnil had not been used for farming for 18 years. A new project, the Cultive campus, will be set up there, focusing on the training and installation of future market gardeners. Close to Montaigu-Vendée, it includes a training center and a model farm dedicated to market garden and tree production.
Le Journal des Entreprises
- Article
- 15/05/2024
Baptiste Saulnier and Vanessa Correa don't aim for happiness by withdrawing into their cocoon, but rather by taking part in a movement to radically change our agricultural model. (Cultive, their training and support program for small-scale organic and intensive farming, will soon be opening its campus in (...)
Agence Bio
- 18/07/2024
Since 2022, the Cultive company has been helping people set up in farming, particularly in market gardening. Renewal of agricultural generations, economic sustainability of farms, guaranteed farm income... these are the issues that prompted the two co-founders to create a market gardening training program, starting on November 4. 25 places are available.
Apecita
- Podcast
- 28/05/2024
"The school benches are now filled with so-called NIMAs (not from the farming world), driven by a desire to live a life closer to nature. These people didn't grow up on a farm. We need to give them the opportunity to gain experience before they settle down" - explains Baptiste Saulnier.
AirZen
- Article
- 16/05/2024
What are the paths to sustainable conversion? Agriculture and food represent 1,430,000 jobs in France, but are directly or indirectly responsible for a quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions. This sector is at a crossroads: what kind of food do we want? How can we make our agricultural model more resilient? From farm to fork, this fast-changing sector offers a wealth of meaningful career opportunities.
Rebound
- Article
- 03/05/2024
Trading in your keyboard and mouse for a watering can and a few seeds... Utopia? To help you get over the hurdle, there are a number of training courses, like Cultive's, that teach you how to become an organic market gardener. Interview with Baptiste Saulnier, co-founder of Cultive.
Environmental jobs
- Article
- 23/01/2024
To set up 300 market garden farms in France within the next seven years, on a human scale and with a profitable model. This is the ambition of the Cultive project, launched in 2022. After raising €100,000 when it was first set up, the project raised a second €400,000 a few weeks ago, to accelerate its deployment.
Ouest France
- Article
- 08/03/2024
There's a rather striking figure: more than 250,000 French farmers will be retiring by 2030, with no guarantee of resuming their activity. This is largely due to the fact that the profession suffers from a lack of attractiveness to younger generations, who are no longer willing to work themselves to exhaustion for derisory remuneration and little recognition.
Foodbiome
- Article
- 28/02/2024
Vanessa Correa, women in agriculture. The Rencontres nationales du retour à la terre has selected the work and careers of 10 women farmers - market gardeners, livestock breeders, cereal growers... Among them, Vanessa Correa from Tourouvre-au-Perche.
Le Perche
- Article
- 05/01/2024
At the Sival trade show in Angers, we met up with Baptiste Saulnier and Vanessa Correa, who have launched the Cultive project in 2022 to provide concrete solutions for agriculture by offering "a career path for market gardeners wishing to work on organic farms, on a human scale, with a profitable model".
Agri City
- Article
- 24/11/2023
With over 100,000 farms disappearing in France in the last 10 years, and 50% of French farmers due to retire by 2030, our agricultural model is showing its limits. The situation is even more worrying for market gardeners, since it is estimated that 70% of them do not make it past the 5-year mark, due to the lack of a robust economic model.
DNA
- Article
- 19/12/2023
Start-up Cultive has raised €500,000 for its project combining a pilot farm, a training center for bio-intensive agronomic techniques and a service for farmers wanting to start up or change their farming practices. The aim is to install 300 farms by 2031.
Agra-innovation
- Article
- 22/11/2023
The innovative approach of the Cultive project is based on unique training and personalized support for market gardeners, a segment particularly hard hit by the crisis in French agriculture.
Business
- Article
- 08/12/2022
Intensive organic market gardening: how Cultive intends to roll out Jean-Martin Fortier's method in France. Baptiste Saulnier and his partner Vanessa Correa have launched Cultive, a campus, training program and network of farms inspired by the intensive organic model. He explains his project to us.
Réussir
- Article
- 13/12/2022
Baptiste Saulnier and his partner Vanessa Correa have launched Cultive, a campus, training program and network of farms inspired by the intensive organic model. He explains his project to us.
Réussir