Posted AT 12:05 AM EDT on 20/12/07
The hush-hush regreening of Europe
BUAIS, France — To look across the rolling fields of Jean-Claude Thibert's Normandy farm is to see the past, present and future of the European countryside.
A pig farm, in business for 50 years, occupies the front of his 90-hectare plot on the edge of a scenic valley not far from Mont Saint-Michel. Behind the piggery stretch fields of corn, which has proved more lucrative than pork with today's rising grain prices.
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