We saved 25% of our working time

by switching to electric pruning shears!

After six months as assistant vineyard manager at Clos des Costières, a well-known Gard estate specialising in stone fruit, Domitille Carton took over responsibility for the farm in November 2023. She has seen and piloted the arrival of electric pruning shears on the farm.

Domitille Carton has been passionate about fruit production ever since she studied to be an agricultural engineer, and is a young farm manager who is 200% committed to the orchard's performance. The athletic-looking thirty-something with steely blue eyes leads her pruning and harvesting teams, moving from one plot to the next with determination, as they work the 223 hectares of the Clos des Costières at Aubord in the Gard department. The farm produces 6,300 tonnes of peaches, nectarines and apricots, labelled as eco-responsible orchards and marketed by the Ille Fruit cooperative, based in Ille-sur-Têt in the Pyrénées-Orientales region.