Around a paddock, right by the mountains, I met with the blossoming Lydvine with her hands in the soil and her heart in the flowers. One year ago, she left her 9 to 5 job, switched off the computer and quit the office to go back to the countryside. She literally claimed her soul back by a creating flower farm called ‘D’Âme des Champs’ and located in the Drôme region in France.
It’s a beautiful encounter, delicate like the buttercups which slowly open up in these early days of spring. Finding purpose… There are so many of us these days trying to find meaning in our work and daily activities: going back to something more natural, more in tune with the seasons, with our soul and ultimately with our human nature. Everyone finds a different answer to the recurrent findings of our unbalanced livelihoods.
Lydvine chose to bring the flowers back to the backcountry. There used to be so many horticultural farms in all the regions of France. But they almost entirely disappeared to the benefit of intensive flower farms located in far away and sadly poorer countries.
Lydvine’s challenge is to help us discover the flowers which grow in abundance under our latitudes but that we barely know anymore: buttercups, yarrows, tulips, hyacinths, alliums, cosmos, nigella, dahlias, peonies… She is a member of the French Flower association, an organization promoting sustainable flower businesses in France.
In her farm, the flowers grow in the ground, in non-heated greenhouses. All year round, Lydvine sells fresh flowers during high season, and dried flowers during low season, on the local markets, at the farm, or in local producers shops.
You can support her by coming visit to the farm, buy bouquets from her or take part in one of her workshops at the farm.
The address is 535C chemin de la Rouaille, 26120 Montmeyran
You can reach Lydvine on +33 6 71 34 88 77 or via email contact@damedeschamps.fr
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