"We can also do it because we have a financial guarantee on the side," admits Marie Paitier, who is in charge of human resources part of the week, when she is not harvesting apples to produce her cider the other part of the time. Like her, a number of half farmer/half employees, are starting out in agriculture out of passion, but want to keep a salary to ease the transition. They have gone through training thanks to 'Slasheurs-cueilleurs', a platform co-created by Julien Maudet after he took account of the shortage of farmers and the low attractiveness of the profession. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES