Environmental commitments

The apple from les Calades comes from a family firm, which sets strategic goals considering sustainable development in its everyday life, with a certified GlobalGAP management.
The sustainable development is a working way committing on ecology and social key points. It’s a way to progress in preserving nature and human beings; we consider our work tool as a global asset to give to our children.

The apple tree is sensitive to several parasites and different diseases. Once a week a technician controls the trees to observe and carry out an assessment. Each herbicide treatment is compulsorily justified and motivated by parasites presence (minimum limits reached) or the diseases observation. We are cautious about the number of insecticides we use, so we set ALT-CARPO nets on the major part of our orchards.

The use of some alternative wrestling technics against chemical products has been organized since 2008. It’s the sexual confusion against the carpocapse: in April (before the love season) we place many diffusers limiting the carpocapse butterflies coupling, and therefore limiting the harmful larva laying.

Every task is recorded on software to keep a better control of the nature and our impacts. We must preserve the soil structure and its life, so we spread organic fertilizer in winter. All our watering operations are reasonable, depending on the readings of the water pressure monitor and a follow-up of the soils drying.

At Les Calades everyday life is rhymed by a constant work to decrease water consumption, the trash selection, an optimal dematerialization and the use of recycled materials (in packaging for example).

Some concrete examples in Les Calades :

  • Maximizing the use of water resources in placing micro-sprinkling system, or dripping installation in our orchards. It reduces temperatures and enables the control of trees watering; it limits the use of fertilizers as well.
  • Limiting the use of fertilizers inputs using organic fertilizers in winter (that improve the soil resources).
  • Considered a CO2 well on the planet, such as every agricultural trees plantation, les Calades contributes to catch the carbon dioxide in atmosphere, which decreases the greenhouse effect on earth.
  • Generalizing the trash selection and boosting the trash treatment to limit the environment pollution.