Lycée Nature

What Lycée Nature does

Lycée Nature is a French public agricultural educational institution (EPLEFPA — Établissement Public Local d'Enseignement et de Formation Professionnelle Agricoles) operating under the French Ministry of Agriculture from its campus in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée. It delivers agricultural education across four integrated divisions: a Lycée (secondary education), a CFA (apprenticeship training center), a CFPPA (adult continuing professional education), and an Exploitation Bio — a 135-hectare certified organic farm that has held organic certification since 2010 and functions both as a production operation and a pedagogical platform. The institution serves secondary students, apprentices, and adult learners pursuing agricultural qualifications, and operates international cooperation programs spanning six partner countries.

The underlying "platform" is the integrated farm-school structure: students, apprentices, and adult learners rotate through the operating organic farm, which doubles as a commercial production unit and a teaching laboratory. The core technology is the certified organic production system itself, supported by the pedagogical framework defined by the French Ministry of Agriculture's national diploma programs. The institution has registered multiple trademarks covering its institutional identity (LYCEE NATURE), commercial exploitation (EARL DES MOULINS), and associative activities (EDENN, NATUR'ASSO), suggesting branded activities extending beyond pure teaching.

The business model is that of a French public educational establishment: core funding flows from the French Ministry of Agriculture (state budget), supplemented by apprenticeship taxes (taxe d'apprentissage), tuition-related fees, and revenue from the commercial sale of organic farm output through the EARL DES MOULINS entity. There is no private fundraising, no equity issuance, and no disclosed revenue figures. Customer segments are distributed across secondary students, apprentices, adult learners, and indirect beneficiaries of organic product sales.

Name

Lycée Nature

Legal name

LYCÉE NATURE

Website

https://lyceenature.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lycée Nature is a French public agricultural educational institution (EPLEFPA) under the Ministry of Agriculture, based in La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, operating four integrated divisions — secondary school, apprenticeship center, adult education, and a 135-hectare certified organic farm — serving students, apprentices, and adult learners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Education Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511), Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming (111219)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Agricultural Services (700), Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Agribusiness, Farm Management & Compliance (EDAOAOAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable/Regenerative Agriculture & Conservation Practices (EDAOAOAO), Crop, Soil & Agronomy Technician Training (EDAOAOAF), Instructional Delivery & Pedagogy (School-Led) (EDAJAFAB)

Keywords

• Agricultural education
• Vocational training
• Organic farming
• Apprenticeship programs
• Adult retraining

Headquarters

HQ city

La Roche-sur-Yon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Agricultural Education Funding: As a public agricultural educational institution (EPLEFPA), Lycée Nature operates primarily through government funding from the French Ministry of Agriculture. Revenue comes from public subsidies, tuition cost coverage from regional authorities, and the sale of agricultural products from the on-site organic exploitation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lycée Nature is a public French agricultural teaching institution that delivers secondary education, apprenticeship training, and adult vocational retraining across agricultural disciplines. Its teaching is anchored by a 135-hectare certified-organic farm (Exploitation Bio) used as a real-operations learning environment for students, apprentices, and adult trainees.

Product overview

Lycée Nature is an agricultural public education establishment offering a multi-component portfolio: (1) Lycée for initial secondary and higher education programs including general and technological baccalauréat and BTS degrees; (2) CFA for apprenticeship-based vocational training; (3) CFPPA for adult professional continuing education including short courses, VAE, AFEST, and CLéA certifications; and (4) Exploitation Bio, a 135-hectare certified organic farm serving as both a pedagogical tool and a commercial operation with direct-to-consumer sales through an on-farm shop and Ma Cagette online drive platform. The institution integrates internal educational management tools (Pronote, Elyco, Ypareo) for administrative purposes rather than as user-facing product integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lycée (Secondary Agricultural School) Secondary-level agricultural education (lycée) for school-aged students, delivering national curriculum tracks leading to qualifications such as CAP agricole, Bac Pro agricole, and BTS agricole, with integrated classroom and on-farm learning on the Exploitation Bio.
• CFA (Centre de Formation d'Apprentis) Apprenticeship training center (CFA) delivering alternance (work-study) programs in agricultural occupations, combining in-center instruction with on-the-job training at host employers; funded in part via OPCO apprenticeship-tax contributions.
• CFPPA (Centre de Formation Professionnelle et de Promotion Agricoles) Adult continuing-education and vocational retraining center (CFPPA) offering short courses, certifications, and career-change pathways in agriculture for adult learners, typically funded via CPF, Pôle Emploi, or employer training plans.
• Exploitation Bio (Organic Teaching Farm) 135-hectare certified-organic production farm operated by the institution to serve as a real-operations learning environment for students, apprentices, and adult trainees, and as a commercial organic-production unit generating product-sales revenue.

Quantifiable outcome

• Fully certified organic agricultural exploitation since 2010 with diversified production systems
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and moderate.

• ADAPEI-ARIA VendéeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with ADAPEI-ARIA Vendée provides reserved space for their members to conduct practical field work and greenhouse activities, supporting vocational training and social inclusion through agriculture.
• CAVACminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCooperative (CAVAC) handles commercialization of agricultural products through long distribution circuits, enabling bulk sales through cooperative channels.
• International Cooperation Partners (Europe, Morocco, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Brazil)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing international cooperation programs and projects involving students and adults in training across multiple countries, promoting cross-cultural agricultural education and sustainable development.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan: French private agricultural engineering school in Toulouse with focus on agriculture, food, environment and sustainable development. Comparable as another competing French agricultural higher-education provider with overlapping curricular themes.
• Schumacher College: UK-based higher-learning institution offering short courses and postgraduate programmes in ecological design, regenerative agriculture and food systems. Comparable as a smaller, mission-driven education provider focused on ecological transition and sustainable land management.

Direct peers

• ESA Angers (Ecole Supérieure d'Agricultures): French private agricultural higher education institution offering engineering degrees and BTS programmes in agriculture, food, environment and landscaping. Comparable as a competing agricultural education provider with overlapping curriculum focus on sustainable agriculture and agribusiness in western France.
• ISARA Lyon: French private agricultural engineering school offering engineering degrees, BTS and continuing education programmes with strong focus on agroecology, organic farming and sustainable food systems. Comparable as a competing agricultural education provider with differentiated sustainable-agriculture positioning.
• Royal Agricultural University: UK agricultural university offering undergraduate, postgraduate and short courses in agriculture, land management and agribusiness with a strong applied-farming orientation. Comparable as a specialised agricultural higher-education institution serving both initial students and adult learners.
• MFR (Maisons Familiales Rurales): Federation of French rural family houses offering alternative agricultural and rural vocational education through apprenticeship and alternating work-study models. Directly comparable as a parallel public-interest agricultural education network targeting the same rural youth and adult segments.
• EPL de Loire-Atlantique (Grand Blottereau): Another EPLEFPA public agricultural lycée in the nearby Pays de la Loire region, offering similar secondary, BTS and CFA programmes in landscaping, agriculture and food transformation. Closest direct operational peer within the same institutional network.

Broad incumbents

• AgroSup Dijon: French public higher education and research institution under the Ministry of Agriculture, providing engineering degrees and continuing education in agriculture, food and environment. Comparable as a larger public agricultural education incumbent within the same ministry framework.
• UniLaSalle: Larger French private agricultural and life-sciences higher-education group with campuses across France. Comparable as a broader agricultural education incumbent offering engineering and professional tracks that overlap with Lycée Nature's BTS and continuing-education portfolio.
• Wageningen University & Research: Globally leading Dutch agricultural university and research centre, the benchmark European institution for sustainable agriculture and food systems education. Comparable as the upper-tier European reference for the kind of applied, systems-level agricultural training Lycée Nature offers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

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