Vosges: no picking of wild arnica this year due to drought

Clément Urion evokes “a symbolic decision”: “We wanted to mark the occasion, to show that no one can pick. This peasant herbalist on the heights of Tholy (Vosges) is also the representative of the fifty or so arnica pickers, who come each year from all over France to a 120 ha site around the Markstein, the Alsatian side of the massif, which concentrates more than three quarters of the French arnica harvest.