Even though retirement is on everyone's lips and in all our streets, water, this vital resource in a critical situation, does not benefit from the same media attention. However, the scarcity and quality of this resource are crucial issues, which should generate much more passionate debate and concrete action.

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Beer, this essentially masculine and barbaric drink... What if I told you that until the monks in the Middle Ages took over the brewing tradition, there were almost only female brewers? And that during Antiquity, the biggest beer drinkers in the West were female drinkers?

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When was the last time you bought meat in the supermarket? How much did you pay for it? Who did you pay? What are the intermediaries between the producer and yourself, the final consumer? And of the 10 euros paid for your bib, how much went to the farmer directly, excluding charges?

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Beer is a product that the average consumer is today unable to assimilate to the terroir in France. However, our country has always been a massive producer of beer and its raw materials. So how could beer be so far removed from the notion of terroir? What can a local beer be today?

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Due to his family background, the current manager of the estate in Juliénas told me that he could no longer attend as he did for 4 years to lead the estate. I am therefore looking for a courageous manager or a young person with an installation project. Who wants to become a winemaker?

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Armand Heitz beers are the result of the meeting between a winemaker and a brewer sharing the same peasant values: work with nature, local development and transparency. Grégoire Blanc, the student I chose for the Épistemê 2022 cuvée, a fine beer connoisseur, talks about this partnership with Brasserie de France.

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For millennia, man has built out of necessity, with the materials he had available. A handful of men was enough to build a village and make their community independent. Just a century ago, a family lived in two rooms, warming themselves over a wood fire, taking advantage of the warmth of animals, placing fodder to insulate the attic.

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Man domesticated cereals 12,000 years ago. They quickly became the basis of the human diet directly and indirectly for meat, they were at the heart of many civilizations, economic and political decisions in the same way as money itself. How did we come to no longer know what we are eating, to always consume the same ultra-processed cereals without realizing that it was harmful for us and for the planet?

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The peasant must make the land more fertile year after year. The architect must construct buildings which improve the life of man year after year. These are two professions that seem to have an interesting synergy. My wife is an architect, I am a farmer, and our project is to put nature back at the heart of our business. Here are a few sentences that summarize the values ​​we would like to share if you decide to work with Astrid & Armand Heitz Architecture.

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