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Of the six children, Luc Pasquiet was the only one who wanted to take over his parents' estate. It must be said that he discovered the olive-growing profession at the same time as they did: he was at secondary school when his parents started olive-growing in the 1980s. While helping them with the harvest, the idea gradually took root. When his parents retired, he took over the olive grove scattered in several parcels around the village, and in particular behind the abbey which is the charm and fame of Lagrasse. That's about 7 hectares of trees, the oldest of which are a hundred years old. While his parents favoured integrated farming, Luc chose to go organic and began converting the estate to the AB label as soon as he arrived in 2013. A year when the fly was particularly bad and his entire harvest was lost. However, Luc Pasquiet is still faithful to his post: on the Lagrasse market on Saturday mornings, but also in his little shop at the foot of the old bridge. There, he offers four single-variety oils in fruity green: olive, a rustic variety typical of the Languedoc, the lucques, with which he also makes table olives, the bouteillan and the picholine. The "cuvée du terroir" is a green fruity made from a blend of what the other cultivated trees produce (aglandau, cailletier, arbequine). As for his olive pastes (without capers or anchovies), he makes them in his workshop and integrates, according to his recipes, the vegetables he grows in his garden.
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