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My weekend à la Lyonnaise
Meet the farlers and pick your own
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By Florence
Published on 27/06/2023
Just because you don’t have an allotment, it doesn’t mean you can’t pick your own fruit and vegetables!
To your wheelbarrows!
From father to son
Henri and Olivier, father and son, have been organic market gardeners since 2008. Beans, courgettes, strawberries and much more are available to pick or buy from their farm shop in Fleurieux-sur-l’Arbresle. Keen to share their knowledge, they also organise educational tours of their farm
Open-air market stall
With your wheelbarrow and basket in hand, pick a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and even flowers. Red fruits for the kids and vegetables for the grown-ups, or is it the other way round?
You can check the handy online harvest calendar before you leave, to see what the day’s offering will be.
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For your summer recipes
New potatoes, melons, courgettes and tomatoes are some of the things you will find starting in July at Les Jardins de Chaponnay. Plus point: everything is organic! You’ll find all you need to fill your picnic hampers...
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Apples and more
Guillaume’s farm is mainly focussed on apples, but that’s not all you will find. This market garden located in Bessenay for two generations also offers an excellent range of fruit (including strawberries, peaches and prunes) and seasonal vegetables (including tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes and peas), as well as 100% natural home-made apple juice.
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Return to earth
Fancy getting your hands dirty? At the association Côté Jardins, you can become a member and do gardening on seven Sundays a year in return for a weekly basket of fruit and vegetables, grown collectively on a one-hectare plot using organic methods.
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Calling all animal lovers!
Bib’ et compagnie
If you come as a family (ages 10 and up), depending on the time of year, you can see the sheep being sheared, help bottle-feed the lambs and/or taste the farm’s produce. What’s more you can even hold birthday parties here!
Dairy story
Here, you can meet all the farm’s animals, and the lovely dairy cows in particular, to learn how dairy products are produced, from the birth of the calves to the butter on your table.
La ferme d’Antoine Facebook pageFrom grazing to milking
At Emmanuel’s farm, you can take a two-hour guided tour like no other. After bringing the cows back from the fields, you will feed them the fodder you will have prepared beforehand.
As a reward for your efforts, the tour ends with an afternoon snack including organic milk, also milked by you.
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