{"id":8687,"date":"2025-10-31T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:42:11","slug":"a-la-decouverte-de-la-culture-du-safran-provencal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/a-la-decouverte-de-la-culture-du-safran-provencal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 la d\u00e9couverte de la culture du safran proven\u00e7al"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>\u00ab <i>L<\/i><i>es gens sont tr\u00e8s curieux de d\u00e9couvrir la culture du safran embl\u00e9matique de la Provence.<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb <span class=\"mln_uppercase_mln\">\u00e0<\/span> la safrani\u00e8re d\u2019Anne Jeanjean, la ferme du L\u00e9zard vert, les visites organis\u00e9es ce week-end affichent d\u00e9j\u00e0 complet. Et pour cause, elle n\u2019en propose qu\u2019une par an. \u00ab\u00a0<i>La floraison du safran est tr\u00e8s courte<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>: un mois environ, donc on ne peut faire que tr\u00e8s peu de visites<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, explique-t-elle.<\/p>\n<p>Surtout qu\u2019\u00e0 Cuges-les-Pins, on cultive depuis longtemps le crocus sativus, cette fleur violette dont est extrait le safran. \u00ab\u00a0<i>Les agriculteurs les faisaient pousser sur les restanques [mur de pierre s\u00e8che permettant de cr\u00e9er des terrasses en agriculture] pour utiliser tous les espaces cultivables<\/i>, explique la safrani\u00e8re. <i>Ils le faisaient surtout pour leur consommation personnelle.<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb Aujourd\u2019hui, ils ne sont plus que cinq \u00e0 cultiver cette fleur dans la commune.<\/p>\n<p>Si cette plante originaire du Moyen-Orient prosp\u00e8re, c\u2019est qu\u2019elle est parfaitement adapt\u00e9e au climat m\u00e9diterran\u00e9en. \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Le safran \u00e0 une floraison invers\u00e9e. Elle fleurit \u00e0 l\u2019automne, fait des feuilles l\u2019hiver et d\u00e8s le retour des chaleurs, elle rentre en dormance. Donc elle supporte tr\u00e8s bien l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 proven\u00e7al<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb<i>, <\/i>explique la safrani\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>Une culture embl\u00e9matique de la r\u00e9gion et une \u00e9pice mondialement connue. Pourtant, son ramassage reste un myst\u00e8re pour beaucoup, ce qui explique l\u2019engouement des visites \u00e0 la ferme du L\u00e9zard vert. Des gestes m\u00e9ticuleux et lents : apr\u00e8s avoir cueilli les fleurs, il faut en retirer le stigmate, les fameux pistils rouges qui, une fois s\u00e9ch\u00e9s, deviennent cette \u00e9pice tr\u00e8s puissante. Un travail lent et minutieux. \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Pour un gramme de safran, il faut environ 200<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>fleurs<\/i>, explique Anne Jeanjean. <i>Mais il suffit de seulement 0,1<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>gramme pour faire un repas pour 5 \u00e0 6 personnes.<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>La ferme du L\u00e9zard vert organise, pendant la floraison, des visites de groupes, en plus de la visite grand public.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><i>Contact mail : lafermedulezardvert@outlook.fr<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&laquo; Les gens sont tr&egrave;s curieux de d&eacute;couvrir la culture du safran embl&eacute;matique de la Provence.&nbsp;&raquo; &agrave; la safrani&egrave;re d&rsquo;Anne Jeanjean, la ferme du L&eacute;zard vert, les visites organis&eacute;es ce &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[450,10,417,1893,1589,35,1288,3418,1621,1286,3420,3419,86,1283,53,61,167,988],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environnement","tag-agriculteurs","tag-bouches-du-rhone","tag-climat","tag-consommation","tag-cuges-les-pins","tag-culture","tag-decouverte","tag-fleurs","tag-la-commune","tag-la-provence","tag-provencal","tag-ramassage","tag-region","tag-repas","tag-travail","tag-visite","tag-visites","tag-week-end","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9575,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions\/9575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}