Context
Created in 2011, the ESAT Pessac Magellan (Establishment and Service for Help through Work) enables people, guided by the MDPH (Departmental House for the Disabled), to exercise a profession and benefit from medical and social support. The ESAT Pessac Magellan welcomes 115 disabled workers aged 18 and over with an intellectual disability, with or without associated disorders, a mental handicap or autism spectrum disorders.
In order to meet the needs of the collective catering of products already prepared and thus facilitate their supply of local products, the ESAT (Establishment and Service of Help through Work) Pessac-Magellan created a vegetable cutting workshop and offered work for a dozen people with disabilities. This workshop buys organic and conventional vegetables directly from farmers or from Loc’halle Bio, in the South West of France. They transform these vegetables into fourth range products, that is to say ready to cook (peeled, washed, cut, packaged, whole, minced, grated, in cubes or slices, vacuum-packed or in sachets) for central kitchens and collective catering, for example.
Project
Implementation
The Légumerie de Magellan therefore offers collective catering establishments an ethical supply service of organic quality fruits and vegetables, ready to eat. Following the French Law No. 87-517 of July 1997, the State requires any employer of more than twenty employees to hire people with disabilities in the proportion of 6% of the total workforce. The partnership with an ESAT or EA (Adapted Establishment) allows the company to partially fulfill this obligation, by contracting subcontracts or services with one of these establishments.
The ESAT of Pessac Magellan offers this pre-cutting service for fresh food, but it also engages in a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) approach by offering fresh, quality products from local, organic or sustainable agriculture . Based on purchases and consumption in short circuits, the Magellan vegetable factory has an offer dedicated to collective and traditional catering.
The Légumerie de Magellan aims to meet three objectives:
- create jobs for people with disabilities,
- allow accessibility for all to quality organic and local products via collective and traditional catering.
- support the development of market gardening on the territory.
The vegetable factory wants to be part of this approach and has obtained the AB (Organic Agriculture) certification, through Agrocert (merged with QualiSud), which is a private certification body.
Means
The production tool has been designed according to the latest standards. By relying solely on purchases and consumption in short circuits, the Magellan vegetable factory has created an offer as close as possible to the needs of collective and traditional catering.
Since July 2018, the Magellan vegetable factory has been certified Organic Agriculture by Qualisud.The Magellan vegetable factory is also committed to establishing partnerships to recover their production waste.
Results
The Magellan vegetable factory was awarded the Agenda 21 - Gironde Trophies, 2015 edition (Food capacity - Special Jury Prize).
The Little Extra
In March 2018, 3AR (Aquitaine Association of Responsible Public Purchases) organized in partnership with Adapeii 33 and ESAT Pessac Magellan (La Légumerie) a training day open to all, on the theme of socially responsible purchasing in collective catering in through various workshops. A visit to the vegetable factory was organized on this occasion.
Written by Claire Caillaud, LFC volunteer - June 2019.
Last modification : 03 Apr 2020.
La Légumerie Magellan
Created in 2011, the ESAT Pessac Magellan (Establishment and Service of Help through work) allows people, referred by the House of disabled people, to exercise a profession and benefit from medico-social support. The ESAT Pessac Magellan welcomes 115 disabled workers aged 18 and over with an intellectual disability with or without associated disorders, a mental handicap or autism spectrum disorders.