The best local producers Lot-Et-Garonne

Set high on the hillsides, the estate combines a historic building with a beautiful wooded workshop-boutique. It's here that the gourmet products of this beekeeping enterprise are imagined, concocted, jarred and labeled. In the boutique: honeys, honey sweets, honey candies and cosmetics from this family-run business, which places quality, taste and traceability at the heart of its requirements. A boutique in Bordeaux, another in Lille, it works! Their star products include honey and poppy candies and lemon honey sweets.

Currants and tomatoes, zucchini and potatoes, rich in flavors and vitamins, for your basket! Bertrand Meffe uses agroforestry and permaculture to produce organic fruit and vegetables in an environmentally-friendly way. His orchard is made up of old varieties from the Montesquieu conservatory. Most of the produce is transformed into soups, ratatouille, compotes, spreads, jams... Available in organic stores such as Lulubio in Casteljaloux.

You can buy meat produced by Claire Saint-Marc, breeder of genuine Gascon pigs, direct from the farm. The pigs are raised in the open air, and the products are available as fresh meat, cured meats and preserves. Choose from sausages and roasts, coppa, pâté de campagne, boudin, saindoux, filet mignon, rouelle, ventrèche... The meat is processed according to the breeder's family recipes.

The David family has been producing honey for several generations. The small Porte des Landes apiary is located around Poussignac and does not practice transhumance. It is at the edge of the forest and in the surrounding wasteland that the bees search for the nectar that will give the honey its aroma. This traditional, ancestral and natural beekeeping method produces a range of delicate, fruity honeys. Today, Marie-Claude David is the beekeeper.

Ferme de Marauli offers direct sales of free-range poultry from the South-West of France, raised in a natural environment according to regional farming traditions. The farm's poultry is fed on quality cereals and treated with essential oils. The chicks arrive at the farm from the age of one day, and have access to grassy runs from 6 weeks of age. Chickens, turkeys, whole guinea fowl, cut up or in confit, galantine, but also products from neighboring farmers, dried duck fillets, foies gras, terrines...

Beekeeper Philippe Labay and his bees produce a fine range of honeys. His beekeeping operation was set up in a special wildlife conservation area on the edge of the Landes forest. Most of the honey is produced on fallow land, woods and natural clearings, biotopes that offer generous botanical diversity and a wealth of pollen and nectar for the bees. You'll find pure honeys on site, with no added honeys from elsewhere...

A mixed farming operation with two very different focuses. The farm raises free-range, antibiotic-free fattened ducks for foie gras and confits, and beautiful fleece sheep for mohair wool. Sales are direct from the farm, by order and by appointment, of whole, live ducks, or cut up fresh, vacuum-packed or canned. You can also find the farm's products at the Lamigeon canning factory in Bazas.

At the helm of this friendly farm is the Bidan family, well known for their asparagus production. During the spring production season, generally from mid-April to early June, you can order your asparagus and pick it up at the farm on certain days. But the Bidans don't just grow asparagus, they also produce organic table grapes of the Exalta (sweet white seedless) and Muscat de Hambourg varieties. So the harvests come thick and fast in September, and so do the sales.

Direct sales of fruit from the orchard, apples and pears of various varieties. You can buy fruit by the case (with deposit) or in 3 kg bags and bottles of apple juice. The fruit harvest begins in the last week of August and lasts until April, depending on production. The first varieties harvested are "Williams" pears and "Gala" apples, and later, in autumn, Chanteclerc, Golden, Fuji... and for pears, Conference and Comice. A true conservatory orchard!

One of the region's leading honey producers. Jean-Pierre Troia, a beekeeper, sells his range of honeys direct, in a number of local producers' stores and at markets. He raises his bees and sets up his apiaries along and around the Avance river. He makes his honey just with the nectar of the flowers his workers gather, for which he is truly passionate. His collection includes acacia, borage, heather, chestnut, all-flower and forest honeys, as well as a creamy breakfast honey.

You're in the middle of the countryside, on the heights of the hills, and it's magnificent! This farm produces and sells raw-milk goat's cheese direct from the farm. You can come and buy at the farm on Friday mornings, or visit the markets in Grignols (Wednesday mornings) and Sainte-Bazeille (Sunday mornings) to stock up. You can visit the farm all year round by appointment. As the seasons go by, you'll see the goats and kids, the donkey, the draught horse, the pig and the dogs.

Come and visit SARL Daguerre's farm direct sales store in the commune of Sainte-Marthe, where fields and greenhouses are lined up for market gardening. As the seasons go by, the harvests produce fruits and vegetables to fill your baskets with fresh produce and vitamins. Salads, apples, grapes, vegetables to concoct a ratatouille, melon or pumpkin, depending on the season. All ethically sourced, locavore and at very reasonable prices.

Cantelause? Cantelause means "sing the bird" in Gascon. At the gateway to the Landes, this family-run farm is located in a clearing in the middle of a wood planted with hardwood trees to protect the farm's homes and buildings from fire. Ducks are raised here, hand-fed on corn grain. Duck dishes and other ready-made meals are 100% homemade, including foie gras and jams. The farm's Solognot lamb is used to enhance Cantelause's famous couscous.

Julien Lavergne is a real daddy hen, with his pullets and two young daughters who help him harvest the eggs in the henhouse. His hens are raised in the open air in a vast wooded field in Poussignac. During the festive season, he offers geese, turkeys, roasts, capons and guinea fowl with stuffing (foie gras, fig or chestnut stuffing). You'll find his stand with whole or cooked poultry, and poultry roasted on the spot in a rotisserie.