Organic stores Loire-Atlantique

There were few bakeries in this part of the island of Nantes. In the summer of 2019, thanks to the generosity of Internet users and to the delight of lovers of good bread, La Maison Boulangerie was born. It is in this luminous and rough waxed concrete setting that Pierre-Antoine Arlot, Chin-Jy Cheng and their team of passionate baristas, bakers and pastry cooks are busy. Graduated as an organic artisan baker at the International School of Baking, Pierre-Antoine has worked in beautiful houses throughout Europe. At La Maison, the bread is artisanal, organic, leavened and made on slow fermenting millstone flour. As for the coffees, they are roasted by Allpress, percolator and gentle extraction. The teas are selected by Patchouli & Co., a Nantes-based tea-springer. In the shop window, the breads are beautiful and the crumbs delicate. On the premises, the coffees are tasted and processed according to the rules of the art. In the heart of the creative district, delicacies inspired by international traditions will give you inspiration!

Lovingly born in Nantes, that's what you can read about the rice pudding of its creator Yann le Corre, a promise proudly inscribed on his scooter that travels around Nantes! Rice pudding, that smooth and comforting sweetness engraved in the depths of our memory... Well, you won't believe it, but we found the time machine! Aboard his BeeOne scooter with its midnight blue dress (as in a dream), Yann has been inviting us since 2018 to rediscover the taste of our childhood. This former commercial director of the famous Maison Pradier has chosen to give a new direction to his professional life (a sort of return to his roots as a tribute to his grandparents' dairy farm in Brittany), by devoting himself to the most emblematic dessert, rice pudding. But not just any dessert! Indeed, he focuses on quality: certified organic artisanal, with milk from the Savenay area, rice from the Camargue, natural and seasonal products, without additives, colourings or preservatives and with 30% less sugar. Because its particularity is to offer a range of 80 different flavors. You can taste the classic Bourbon vanilla from Madagascar, salted butter caramel, or the most original, cinnamon lime rum, yerba maté, vanilla apple compote or Caribbean chocolate... Special attention is paid to respect for the environment: short circuits are preferred and the containers are compostable and biodegradable. Yann welcomes you during the day on Wednesday in front of the Nantes University Hospital, and in the morning on the market of Talensac on Friday, and Vertou on Saturday and Sunday. You can find his creations in some organic shops and all the good creameries. You can also order online for a fresh delivery in France.

Known for their production of apples and pears grown in organic and biodynamic agriculture, the Coteaux nantais offer about forty varieties of apples, ten varieties of pears, as well as quinces, kiwis, strawberries and peaches. Alongside the classics, Golden or Belle de Boskoop, Conference or William pears, there are also lesser-known varieties such as the Delsavor, the President Heron pear, the Patte de Loup apple or the Topaz. A wide range of apple products, cider, compote, jelly, etc.

Les Hameaux Bio is a family business belonging to the Biocoop network of independent entrepreneurs. The fifth Les Hameaux Bios store opened in Nantes in 2017. Everything is sold here: bulk products such as pasta and cereals (semi-complete pasta, small spelt pasta, round Camargue rice, long rice, couscous semolina, etc.); seeds (pumpkin, flax, sesame, quinoa, etc.); pulses (white beans, lentils, lentils, etc.).), pulses (white beans, lentils, coral lentils); or fruit and vegetables from La Ferme de Levera (Guérande), Agari Breizh (Moustoir Remungol 35), GAEC des Champs Paradis (Bourgneuf en Retz), Jardins de Domhéry (Guérande); groceries with fair-trade products, butchers, cheese products, fresh produce, a well-stocked cellar... In addition to being a distributor of quality organic products, the Les Hameaux Bio Biocoop Nantes store offers associations a space with unlimited tea and coffee, for workshops, presentations... It's also the place to be for 100% free cooking classes, to learn how to make your own hummus and lupin-based feta, for example. Animations around particular products will delight your taste buds while helping you rediscover traditional products, like this animation around honey, lupin and olive oil. You're sure to find what you're looking for in this friendly, varied grocery store! There's also an organic restaurant, Restaurant BON, a bakery, La Panetière, and an organic butcher.

Born in 2010 from an initiative by the Bio Loire Océan producers' association, and 2 social and professional integration structures, the Jardin de Cocagne de Carquefou 44 and Aspire 49, this project promotes local, organic produce from players in the agricultural sector and encourages professional reintegration. Pick up your basket at one of the 230 relay points available in Nantes, the surrounding area and Loire-Atlantique, as well as around Angers, 72, 53 and 85! Delivery takes place on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, depending on the delivery point. Each week, the basket contains 5 to 7 portions of vegetables and fruit, plus recipes.

The Nantes-based organic store chain, created in 1985, is present through 7 stores in Nantes and its agglomeration. The Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire store, opened in 2017, is located in the artisanal zone near the route de Paris. With a surface area of 710 m², the place is airy and spacious, the aisles are wide and you can easily find the departments that can be spotted by the indications at the top of the walls: butchery, delicatessen, cheese shop, breads and pastries, fruits and vegetables, drinks and wines but also a gluten-free department, bulk groceries, food supplements, cosmetics, hygiene and cleaning products. We also discover a water osmosis machine to fill your reusable bottle directly in still or sparkling water... An ingenious idea to reduce waste! As a reminder, the concept of the store is simple: if you wish, you can join the organic products consumers' cooperative, and you will then be entitled to a 10% discount at each checkout in all Chlorophylle stores. To consume organic products in an eco-responsible and fair way is the credo of Chlorophylle, the lung of the planet!

You want to eat organic for cheap and save fruits and vegetables? Well, you should know that it is possible! Antoine Rubalec from Nantes has set up "Sauve ton bio", which allows you to eat good food at half price, while paying the farmers fairly. To get products that do not meet the standards, nothing could be simpler: go to the site or the application to locate the various places of withdrawal and thus participate in reducing food waste! Bananas, zucchinis, watermelons will inevitably find a place in your plates! A good plan that values the unsold products of organic producers: smart!