Honey and jam producers Pays De La Loire

In Vritz, Isabelle Clérot (a former cook by training) has set up her laboratory where she now makes jams, jellies, chutneys, syrups and other spreads. This traditionally fruit-growing region offers the ideal conditions for her fruit-based productions; her jarred preparations are in fact mostly made from the processing of fruit produced on her farm. In organic conversion since 2019, "here, no chemistry!", as Isabelle likes to say. Only natural products are used in the making. You can find her products on the Internet, in producer's shops and on the markets of the region. All sorts of tasty jams (pear, greengage with vanilla, apricot with vanilla, red grapefruit, rhubarb...) or jellies based on perfectly original recipes as well as delicious chutneys (such as the Norman chutney: apples, onions, raisins, lemon, spices), marvellously presented in pretty jars, or the delicious syrups (savory, oregano, mint syrup, sweetness of childhood...). We give in to the very high quality of these sweets but also to the mode of production and distribution, directly from the producer to the consumer, which is a sure guarantee of quality. You can find them, among others, at the Épi du fermier near Canclaux, Little Britain Café in front of the Grand Blottereau park, or Lecoq and also the new space of Brison traiteur at the Nantes train station.

Lucette and Jean-Marc Campas give you an embarrassment of riches to choose from, with some fifty different jams and jellies prepared with produce from the farm: enough to give character and variety to snacks and breakfasts. Orchard fruit, cow's milk for milk jams, garden produce and even field products (dandelion flowers, wild blackberries, etc.): all are used to delight young and old alike.

Patrick Legeay is a passionate beekeeper and you will be able to discover the fascinating world of bees with the help of specially crafted hives in a glass area. After a passage in the miellerie, you can directly savour the products from the hive. Patrick Legeay regularly receives schools and proposes the manufacture of wax candles by children.

Micro-entrepreneur since 2009 and now based in the Nantes countryside, Véro works from home, producing her homemade jams in over 75 original flavors. The only employee, she distributes her jams to selected retailers such as delicatessens, hotels, restaurants, bakeries, crêperies, tea rooms, coffee shops and designer boutiques. The fruit comes from the garden, local markets and seasonal donations, some of it organic.

Les Ruchers du Pays Blanc is located in Herbignac. This beekeeper offers a wide selection of honeys from the Brière region, such as miel de la Presqu'île and miel de Brière. They also organize courses for those wishing to learn more about beekeeping. The Ruchers du Pays Blanc website doesn't offer online sales at the moment, but it does provide documents and videos about their operation. In addition, they have a strong social link with the ESAT in Leniphen.

Divided between two beekeeping farms in the Vendée and Savennières, Anthony and Mathilde juggle their two operations. Started more than 20 years ago, the farm has more than 300 hives producing chestnut, hawthorn, lime, acacia honey... Au Vent des Abeilles offers other products such as pollen, propolis and royal jelly, natural sweets with a variety of nougat, gingerbread and onion or fig chutney prepared with honey. In Savennières it is Evelyne and François who receive and sell all the productions.

With 17 stores in France, family Mary shows that honey and its benefits remain a trend. " Feeling good thanks to the trésor of bees ", this is an idea and a gold slogan. Family Mary has been specialized in organic honey and its derivatives since 1921. Know-how that you can enjoy depending on what you want to achieve: relaxation, immunity and beauty. Whether you choose an edible product or not, it will delight you with its originality or its nutritious, benevolent and stimulating contribution. By entering the store, don't trust your small size; it is full of products to panic a bee: From royal jelly, infusions, pollen, gingerbread, but also honey shampoos, products to help digestion, honey mustard, freeze to relax and regenerate painful joints… You don't hesitate to taste a honey. Counsel: test the Caramiel… a true caramel and honey delight.

Here, we have been beekeepers from father to son since 1856. The honeys from the Paumeraie apiaries are sold at the Nogent-le-Rotrou market on Saturday mornings and at several farmers' markets in Paris and the region. You can order from about fifteen varieties of honey including chestnut, bramble, acacia, fir, heather, lavender, garrigue, forest and other transhumance sites of the Sarthe beehives. Also on the stand gingerbread, pollen, sweets, soaps.

In 2021, the Mary family celebrated its 100th anniversary! A century of trading in honey and its derivatives for this fine family business, which today boasts over thirty franchised boutiques. The French honey section has been expanded again this year, offering an exceptional choice: lemon, rosemary, thyme, heather, eucalyptus honey... A real exclusive? Cointreau honey, sold both in jars and by weight. Hive products are also available here in royal jelly, propolis, pollen, confectionery and cosmetics.