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A Quiet, Ancestral Farm Life in Western France (20 photos)

Over the course of several months recently, Reuters photographer Stephane Mahe visited and photographed a farmer named Jean-Bernard Huon, on his farm in western France. Huon, now 70, grew up here, and deliberately lives a traditional, non-mechanized farm life, favoring ox teams over tractors. From a Reuters article: “When farm machinery revolutionized French agriculture in the years after World War Two, a young Jean-Bernard Huon turned his back on the new technology. Half a century later, in a corner of southern Brittany on France’s west coast, Huon still uses oxen to plow his fields, determined to preserve an ancestral, peasant way of life.”