French farmer Jean-Bernard Huon, 70, walks with his oxen on his land near his farm in Riec-sur-Belon, France, October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
RIEC-SUR-BELON, France (Reuters) - 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 plough his fields, determined to preserve an ancestral, peasant way of life.
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