The best local producers Vendée

The inescapable cookie factory recognized as a quality artisan! Pierre and Géraldine are always innovating: raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond slivers, crunchy biscuits, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. Our flagship product, caramel, is available in a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé style. All homemade with exceptional regional raw materials (including the island's fleur de sel) without preservatives or artificial coloring.

Brigitte, Philippe and their son Dylan's salt works consists of 118 carnations. They produce coarse salt and fleur de sel (plain and flavoured) and, depending on the year, salicorne. To vary your dishes, season them with fleur de sel with lemon, ginger, 5 berries, chilli pepper, curry, basil... If you want to know everything about the life of the saunier, the history of salt, how it is harvested, how it is preserved..., Dylan has no equal to captivate his audience.

Owned by a collective of 245 members who have turned it into a " cooperative third party venue allowing for cross-fertilisation and collaboration between audiences and players from different backgrounds, specialities and sectors". At the organic products shop you will find farm products, but not only. On its stalls you will find vegetables, aromatic herbs, eggs, free-range chickens (to order), products from reuse, but also fruit and vegetables, groceries and dairy products... Once a month, parcels of beef and/or pork, on order. All organic and good!

Ile-d'Olonne is a commune close to Les Sables-d'Olonne and yet has a very different appearance. A natural environment, a little wild, a paradise for birds but also a land where salt is cultivated. At the Raffin's, we have been sauniers since 1744! The salt is harvested by hand, in the respect of tradition to produce a quality salt. Flavour your dishes with fleur de sel, plain or flavoured salt and salicorne. Get on your bikes for a peaceful ride through this magnificent landscape with its carnation pattern.

Here is a multiple address! There is the farm with its 180 ewes, 140 of which are of the Solognese breed, which can be visited and which sells the wool of the ewes, but above all you come here for the products of the farm: lamb rillettes, lamb liver pâtés, jams and red fruit coulis. In compliance with the standards of organic farming. On your way back from the beach, take a break for herbal tea or red fruit sorbet and why not let the time fly by until sunset, on the terrace around tapas of ewe's meat, lamb rillettes and vegetable spreads from the farm.

Emmanuel Moreau, a fervent defender of short circuits, created La Petite Soupe in 2021. We like the spirit: artisanal production, originality of soups and spreads, and all this with as few intermediaries as possible between the producer and the consumer, favouring local and organic products. He produces tasty soups with original flavors. We fell in love with the delicious mogette/peanut soup and the Coffee Pot with its original combination of pumpkin and coffee. 100% vegetable products! Discover the foügra vendéen (mogette spreadable), ideal on a toast.

Lucie (known as Lulu) and Fabien's fish shop is without doubt the best fish shop on the island and the warmest welcome. Freshness, regularity, daily arrivals. No farmed fish, only local fish! In its nets: red mullet, turbot, sea bass, sole, scallops, shrimps, tuna, oysters, mussels, shellfish, home-made smoking specialities. Vacuum packing of fish to take away. Seafood platters to order. Present at the market.

This is the direct sales store of the Noirmoutier Island salt cooperative. Here, you can buy Noirmoutier salt directly, harvested by the island's salt-makers in keeping with age-old traditions. The fleur de sel is delicately hand-picked from the surface of the water and dried naturally in the sun, under the Nature & Progrès label. A wide range of salts - coarse salt, fine salt and fleur de sel - natural or flavored, as well as a range of complementary products (salicorne, caramels, chips, etc.).

It is the fish shop on the island! The place is pleasant and the enthusiastic atmosphere. The stall offers a splendid fish galore, like the bar, tuna, the conger and many others, also of shellfish and superb lobsters and crayfish. Prices are the same as in mainland ones, but freshness is impeccable. It is a real pleasure to find a fish shop of this quality. Moreover, you will be revealed some recipes and small tricks ideal for cooking and the choice of the ingredients.

Born in 1945 from an observation, tired of being exploited, the farmers of Noirmoutre decided to create a work tool allowing them to pool all the means of mutual aid. It gathers 50 producers, who cultivate approximately 450 hectares of potatoes on the island. At the Noirmoutier Agricultural Cooperative, a retail store (l'Île aux Jardins) open to individuals. You will find the famous bonnottes of the island, as well as vegetables and regional products..

The Biscuiterie incontournable of Noirmoutier has this^2nd store. Enjoy raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond glaze, croquants, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. The flagship product, caramel, is available as a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé. All homemade by chefs, in the Noirmoutier workshop, with exceptional regional raw materials and no preservatives or artificial coloring.

This is the direct sales shop of La Sablaise cannery, but not only. You will find grocery products around fish: canned food, fish soups, smoked fish... A multi-faceted place, a discovery site where you can use virtual helmets to find out about the jobs at La Sablaise Cannery and the entire industry; touch-screen tablets for the youngest visitors to understand in a fun way how seafood products are produced, from fishing to eating... And regularly gastronomic workshops, animations, demonstrations...

A family business created in 1926, Soulard exports its foie gras and duck to South Africa and supplies many catering professionals. In the shop (located in Ernest's family home) you will find duck in all its states: fat or lean, the latter is a Barbary duck, well-fleshed, with a firm, low-fat meat. Both are available in different forms: whole, magret, fillet, leg, sleeve... Another flagship product is foie gras, from raw to semi-cooked and canned.

Alice and Vincent David have been oyster farmers for about ten years. They obtained two medals, gold for their special oysters of clear, and silver for the open sea in the General Agricultural Competition in 2020. You will find their oysters and shellfish on order at their shack, but also on the markets of Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche and Mouilleron-le-Captif. From July to October they offer mussels from Pénestin. In summer, from 8 people, book your fishing boat trip (1h30) to discover the bay and taste its oyster production.

The 15-hectare estate is situated in a preserved natural environment. Concerned about the environment, Éric Sage's estate is in conversion to natural agriculture. He produces wines made from Chenin (called Franc blanc sur Brem) and Pinot Noir grapes, giving wines with a mineral character and a freshness in the mouth at the end. On reservation, guided tour in a horse-drawn carriage drawn by the horses of the vineyard to discover the different grape varieties and the work in the vineyard, visit followed by a tasting. An instructive visit at the rate of 15 €.

Jean-Noël, Annick, René, Vianney, Alice and Christian have combined their skills and their love of the land. They raise organic ducks, which they offer in fillets, aiguillettes, legs and sleeves. Vianney and Alice raise chickens and guinea fowl and offer eggs. Frédéric raises cows and offers steak, rump steak, tournedos, entrecotes, sausages, brochettes and minced steak. Jean-Noël is the market gardener of the group. While Nathalie and Frédéric prepare excellent fresh dairy products: plain and flavoured yoghurts, fromage blanc, faisselle.

This farm has been established in the Marais Breton for many years now. Marc, Xavier, David and Patrick produce and process mulard duck on their typical Marais Breton farm. Here, everything is homemade and produced on site. Specialties include foie gras confit, terrines, rillettes and a wide range of traditionally prepared dishes. Direct farm sales all year round. 5 self-catering cottages with gardens, each accommodating 3 to 6 people. The property has a fishing pond.

This small artisanal cannery is hidden behind the pier. Régis and Christophe sell in their shop and on the market, artisanal tuna products made on the island. Among the products: tuna in natural or olive oil, tuna pâté (plain or with green pepper), tuna mousse, monkfish liver, tuna rillettes (plain, with tomato or green pepper), mackerel rillettes, sardine rillettes and sardine pâtés. The products are delicious and of high quality. You can also buy your products by mail order.

Bertrand Souchard and Gaelle Courtin are producers and processors of ducks, raised according to the agriconfiance sanitary standards. The farm covers 50 hectares, part of which is reserved for raising cattle. They make farmhouse foie gras preserves and offer duck-based products: stuffed neck confit, duck breast stuffed with foie gras or plain, fresh products, rillettes, terrines, smoked duck breast, duck confit. For groups, visit of the farm and the force-feeding workshop possible. Products for sale on the spot, on local markets,...

He is THE snail specialist in the Vendée! Raised in the open air, the snails are cooked with natural products, in the tradition: stuffed snail shells, mini-snail queens, snail beads, cabbages or wafers stuffed with snails, stuffed potatoes... Snails which benefit from the AB label, organic farming. The visit ends with a tasting. And also a range of natural cosmetic products made from organic snails from the Vendée with many virtues; cream rich in allantoin, collagen and elastin.