Honey and jam producers Midi-Pyrénées

Welcome to Bernard and Anne-Lise, passionate beekeepers at Domaine de Villeneuve. Their tempting products include a wide range of honeys, gingerbread, mead, wax and honey vinegar. The choice is endless among the fifteen honeys on offer for sale (and regularly for tasting). From May to August, take advantage of free open days on the last Sunday of the month to discover the fascinating world of bees and the honey house. The estate is also renowned for its wines: a promising visit that will appeal to many wine lovers.

Alain Merit evolves in his universe made of bees and honey. It is with know-how and passion that he makes many delicious products derived from this gold: like nougat, mead, a delicious gingerbread, and of course a wide variety of honeys. By appointment, it is possible to visit the honey house and the hives in complete safety. He will tell you about his farm, the importance of such an ecosystem and the methods of production. It is a pleasure for the curious and the greedy and no doubt that it will please the little ones!

Le Clos de la reine is an artisanal operation of friendly beekeepers who offer a variety of delicious honeys. One comes here to buy its jars of treasures of the hive directly from the producers. You can enjoy tastings, observe bees at work in the hive on the field and guided tours are available. Among the honeys produced here, you can taste nectar from Vic, garrigue honey, forest honey, rosemary honey, acacia honey, chestnut honey or oak honey. Propolis-based products and royal jelly are also offered.

Maurice Guillaume and Patrick Lesgards have been transforming fruits and berries into jams and jellies for 20 years. Blueberries, raspberries, redcurrants, blackberries are their favorites, but they have extended their range and know-how to many other fruits. They have also made a specialty of daring chutneys, to accompany foie gras, cheeses and grilled meats. The "apricot and cumin madness" accompanies cheeses with a bloomy rind, while you can opt for the "cranberry-red fruit" on a fresh cheese, or the "black cherry and licorice" on a sheep's milk cheese.

As in Bashung's song, Thomas is a happy farmer, and he claims it. He has 240 hives spread throughout the department in order to experience the influences of the sea or the mountains. He obtains very varied honeys: lavender, garrigue, rhododendron, maquis, etc. The cold extraction with the centrifuge allows to keep all the virtues and the best aromas. Let's not forget the production of honey vinegar, propolis or the inevitable gingerbread. Many beautiful things to discover and taste.

In Fenouillet, one of the most beautiful villages of the department, at an altitude of 550 metres, Le Rucher de Flora is a family farm with 250 beehives. Stéphanie and Frédéric practice transhumant beekeeping, that is to say that they move their hives according to the flowering season to obtain diversified honeys. During a visit, you will discover a wide variety of honeys, but also a gingerbread whose manufacture is inspired by an ancestral recipe called "Couque de Dijon". Come and meet them, they are fascinating!

In the heart of the old village of Eyne, Amandine and Aurélien welcome you to their little shop in the honey house. You will of course find their honeys (our preference goes to the mountain honey - rhododendron) and the products of the hive: propolis, soap, comb honey... Very committed to the environment, they will tell you why it is necessary to save the bees and stop using pesticides at all costs. Less resistant than militant, this couple in love with the region (the valley of Eyne is one of the most beautiful of the Pyrenees), travels the markets of the region.

Jean chose the Toy country to raise his bees and two very specific sites house his hives: one in Lourdes for the production of chestnut honey and the other in the Luz valley for four typical honeys: heather, mountain wildflower, lime and rhododendron. The beekeeper will show you around his honey house. From the hive to the jar, you will learn everything about the honey circuit. It is instructive and fun, thanks to the exhibition of a hive visible through a glass window. Meet Jean on the markets of Luz, Monday and Friday.

Red roses, yellow roses, apricot-mint, shallots and onions, rosehips or mirabelle plums, strawberries, rhubarb and raspberries... Naomie Morez-Pons puts magic in her jars of jams made at the foot of Montségur. Subtle combinations make up her chutneys and confits. Passionate about fruit, especially in pasta, but also in jams, jellies or compote, Naomie cultivates, picks, assembles and concocts in a traditional way fabulous mixtures: nettle pesto, Chardonnay jelly or red wine with spices...

Carole and Laurent Gomez currently work with 350 beehives, scattered along the Mediterranean coast. They sell their products mainly at the farm and at local markets. You will have the opportunity to learn more about the work of the beekeeper through panels, slide show photos ... Their products - honeys, gingerbreads, caramandes (subtle mixture of almonds and caramel), royal jelly, pollen, boxes - are sold directly from producer to consumer, either on the markets from June to September, or in the shop at the farm all year.

Malou, a passionate beekeeper, takes care of her bees with love, as they gather wild flowers in the mountain pastures of Bordères-Louron. She not only produces honey with an incomparable taste, but also organic honey jams, gingerbread, and black nougat. Malou has also recently taken care of several hens that will provide you with fresh eggs. Don't hesitate to make a detour, this visit is really worth it, as much for the quality of the gourmet products as for what you learn. You can also find Malou at the market of Arreau on Thursday morning.

For almost 50 years, the Pradier family, beekeepers from father to daughter, has been established on the edge of the southern Cévennes. Thanks to the hundreds of hives that Flora moves to different regions as the seasons change, she can offer honeys with a wide range of flavors: white heather, forest (fir and hawthorn), chestnut, lavender, lime, acacia... In addition, you'll find many other products: royal jelly, propolis, pollen, gingerbread, candy, lollipop, nougat, soap... quality products and unheated honeys to delight your taste buds!

Xavier and Benoit have sublimated the know-how of their uncle, a master jam maker, by keeping a traditional cooking process in a cauldron for their sweet and savory jars. The promise: an insatiable combination of tastes, the preservation of textures and flavors of carefully selected ingredients. With their team, they wish to share the joy of eating well by proposing a pretty range of jams, spreads, chutneys, confits, condiments, pestos and sauces, oils, vinegars and hummus, spreads or even fruit, herb and wine confits.

Wisco and Florence Romanzin welcome you to their bee farm. Lauriol's apiary operates about 200 to 300 colonies and pollinates the surrounding orchards. Passionate, they share the love of their profession. Pedagogues, the visit will be particularly appreciated by children. The honeys harvested from May to September and cold extracted are on sale in the shop: rapeseed, acacia, chestnut, sunflower and a thousand and one flowers from the Garonne valley. You will also find homemade gingerbread, propolis and honey vinegar.

Corinne has decided to make her passion her profession... with success! She practices "traditional" beekeeping, with the aim of producing quality honeys with different tastes and textures depending on the site and the year: the same flowers do not bloom every year at the right time depending on the weather conditions. Pollen, propolis, beeswax... are also part of the precious treasures collected in the hives. "Les Apidélices" is currently 300 hives spread over different locations.

Isabelle Marret-Desconet cultivates a chestnut grove of about four hectares near her farm and concocts in her laboratory delicious chestnut creams with vanilla, chestnut flour, natural chestnuts, etc. She also produces honey, including a delicious chestnut honey and an original honey flavoured with orange blossom that delights children. Also on the shelves, donkey milk and chestnut soaps. An excellent house and excellent products that can be found at local fairs and markets.

In this family of beekeepers, if no one has the bumblebee, it is surely thanks to the delights resulting from the 400 hives laid out between the valleys of the Neste and the Louron. Visiting this artisanal company is both educational and instructive but also a real pleasure which ends with the tasting of the famous honey sweets, melting pastilles with a thousand virtues. You can also find them on the local markets. A gourmet tip: honey jam is one of the specialities of the house: listen only to your heart!

In the hamlet of Puigt, on the road to Rabouillet, this small processing workshop produces high quality certified organic jams. They are made in the pure tradition of artisanal jam making in a cauldron over a low heat with a minimum of 70% fruit. Most of the fruit used comes from a nearby farm that grows organically. Jams with cane sugar, fruit purees without added sugar, onion and fig jams...

Pierre Dannoy, a passionate winegrower and a great defender of organic farming, welcomes you to present his natural wines, but also to let you taste his figs, pomegranates, grape juice, jams and olive oil. This man has more than one trick up his sleeve, and depending on the season, there is always something to taste. We love the environment of the domain, wild, arid and so endearing. Pierre's natural wines are fresh and light - a real fruit juice in the mouth! They are perfect for summer meals!

In the Edo family, we meet passionate people who raise bees to offer delicious honeys entirely local and from the family production. Sensitive to its environment, the Edo family pollinates local crops with hundreds of beehives installed around the Thau basin and its surroundings. In jars, one discovers a beautiful diversity of honeys with textures, colors and perfumes which vary between the honey of lavender, scrubland, rosemary and heather, sunflower, chestnut tree..

The Miellerie du Salagou, built in 1989, is a must for beekeeping enthusiasts and the curious. Guided tours, exhibitions, projections, an active glass hive... everything is provided to discover this insect essential to our environment. In addition to raising awareness, the Miellerie offers a wide range of bee-related educational activities, as well as creative and culinary workshops. The visit ends with a tasting session, which makes you want to drop into the store to buy some regional products.

Nathalie invites you to discover the flavours of our land: honey, gingerbread, jams and products of the hive. This passionate person, through a real tasting, will know how to initiate you to the universe of the hive, to speak to you about the virtues of honey and to present you its derived products. It's not next door, but the road is so beautiful, and once up there in the coolness you'll feel like you're in paradise, that it's really worth the climb.

As the namesake of her department, it's only natural that Aude Mercier should present over 250 products, many of them organic and from the surrounding area, in her delicatessen. Among the savouries, discover preserves from Ferme des Garrigues, rillettes from Domaine de Peyremale, and vinegars from Cyril Codina. Sweet treats include pomegranate juice and jelly from Rouge d'Oc, as well as cookies, almonds, and other treats. Wines such as "La tempête sous la couette", beers from "La mer à boire", Carthagène, and other liqueurs are also there for you.

In the heart of the PNR, Lucie, or Lulu, is a true beekeeper and harvester. In her beekeeping farm she cultivates the Gold of the hive by breeding her queens and pampering her workers to obtain great honeys. The hives are installed in the nature, far from everything, and on all the reliefs, from the Pyrenean foothills to the mountains, even the high mountains. Lulu's honeys are tasty and authentic. They are harvested and bottled by the beekeeper, who was awarded a gold medal at the Concours Général Agricole de Paris 2023 for her lime tree honey.

The honey house is the perfect place to find genuine, authentic, local and organic honey, in monofloral varieties that are becoming increasingly rare. The annual selection includes chestnut, acacia, white heather, lavender and fir honeydew. Situated on a mountainside, this tour of the site will give you a glimpse of the extraction area and the environment dedicated to beekeeping production, run by this family for two generations. You'll also come across peacocks and other farm animals.

Renowned throughout the region and beyond for the quality of its products, this workshop focuses primarily on the development of local fruit, and offers a fine range of products with no additives or preservatives. Jams, coulis and fruit jellies, many of them based on red fruits (strawberries, blackcurrants, raspberries, blueberries) and chestnuts, are available in a range of twenty-five to thirty products, including a surprising rosehip jam (or more colloquially, confiture de gratte-cul). All, of course, handcrafted to the highest quality.

This beekeeper, a specialist in mountain honeys, has chestnut, heather and causses honeys among his favourite varieties. During the visit of his installations, he explains their differences and presents less known products of the hive such as mead and honey vinegar. Gingerbread, royal jelly, sweets and soaps are also to be discovered... The quality of its products has long been recognised by all the experts and the company wins numerous prizes in national and regional competitions every year.

Caroline Davelu cares about beauty, goodness and respect. More than a profession and know-how, this producer is passionate about passing on the fundamental values of life through the priceless treasures of beehive products.
Organic honeys and beehive products, royal jelly, propolis, pollen (a real treat), oak-aged mead vinegar, beeswax candles, gingerbread... All products come from beehives and are certified organic (honey without pesticides or chemical residues).

7 km from Auzat, in the charming little village of Marc, at 1,070 m, the last of the valley at the foot of the Soulcem dam, the beekeeper Sylvie is the queen of bees, she watches over her 100 hives and harvests the precious golden honey. All the products of the hive are natural antibiotics, each with its own virtue. From the sweetest to the strongest flavour, there are many varieties of honey: acacia, rhododendron, lime, chestnut, heather and of course "all flowers in dry stones". Children will enjoy discovering the small eco-museum.

Christian and Chantal Chalvidan are at the head of 350 beehives installed on the Lozère mountain, producing different types of honey: mountain, raspberry, chestnut, callune, sainfoin, all in organic agriculture. You can get your supplies from the farm or from the markets of Bagnols-les-Bains or the night market of Villefort. In addition to honeys, they offer gingerbread, but also soaps, mead and honey vinegar. A visit to the honey factory allows you to learn about the history of beekeeping, the stages of honey processing, with a tasting session to back it up!

Beekeepers, Bernard and Anne-Lise sell a wide range of products: about fifteen different honeys, gingerbread, mead, wax, honey vinegar... The choice is difficult, especially among the fifteen honeys they offer. From May to August, they organise free open days (the^4th Sunday of each month) which allow visitors to discover the world of bees and the honey house. But the estate is also famous for its wines. So here is a visit that will please more than one person.

The beekeepers of the territory raise hives to make honeys rich of all the biodiversity of the flowers of the Cevennes National Park. In this honey factory, created in 1937 and passed down from generation to generation, you will find chestnut, callune heather and mountain honeys. Note that the farm, which can be visited free of charge (on Fridays from 10 am to noon in July and August), shows all the stages of production in organic farming, and offers a tasting of the products of the hive. An immersion in the profession of beekeeper.

Welcome to the farm ! Welcome to the house of the lock! On the banks of the Canal du Midi, the Confiturerie de l'Écluse makes delicacies with fruits and vegetables produced and transformed on site according to original recipes. For example, melon jam with cinnamon or watermelon/lemon, onion jam, elderflower, thyme and rosemary. So many sunny flavors of the Aude declined in 25 jams and a dozen jams. Sales also of cassoulets, honeys, wines.

Olivier Galache welcomes you to his beekeeping micro-farm and answers questions you may have about bee products and beekeeping. His passion was passed on to him by his grandfather, and despite the years, it is still intact. Her honeys are delicious, in the height of this passion. You can choose from a beautiful collection: dandelion honey, acacia honey, linden honey, rhododendron honey, callune heather honey, callune heather honey in comb, thousand-flower honey, woodland honey. He also supplies you with pollen from the Hautes Pyrénées.

Le temps des confitures is a jam manufacturer located in Montpellier. They offer a wide range of homemade jams made with seasonal fruit. Their products include semi-seeded blackberry, citrus, bitter orange, orange, Corsican clementine, citron, mirabelle, apricot and strawberry rhubarb jams. They also offer a special Mariguette strawberry jam called "L'Impériale".

Les Ruchers du Tigou is a farm store offering a wide range of beekeeping products. Visitors can find honey of different varieties, such as all-flower honey, acacia honey, chestnut honey, forest honey, Pyrenean honey, linden honey, Montagne Noire honey, buckwheat honey and Gavarnie honey. The store also offers honey-based pastries and confectionery, such as gingerbread, nougats and spreads. Customers can also buy fresh royal jelly, propolis and pollen.