The best local producers Marais poitevin

The Ferme du Marais Poitevin in Benet offers authentic immersion in the heart of Green Venice. This educational and vacation farm invites you to enjoy a unique experience in close contact with the animals on its 10-hectare estate. A range of accommodation options, including bed and breakfast and gypsy caravans, are available to extend this immersion experience. The farm also offers pitches for camper vans. In addition to visiting the farm, other activities include hiking, biking, boat trips and escape games. A store selling farm produce is also available.

The Vendelice melon is the fruit of a passion: that of the Bogers family, farmers for several generations, who by challenge innovated in the 1980s in the cultivation of melon in the Vendée. Their melon is produced on different sites in France (in Chaillé-les-Marais) and in Spain to ensure a distribution over more than 6 months of the year. To choose a melon, do the stalk test (the tail of the melon). It always comes off when the melon is ripe. Another alternative in summer, the mini black watermelon from Vendée that they also produce.

A trio of cattle breeders offer a whirlwind of local dairy flavors: raw-milk tomme, creamy fromage blanc, plain and fruit yogurts, and the famous Paloubéen with its flowery rind. The small farm produces around 50,000 liters of milk a year - a very small quantity, in other words, but a guarantee of the extreme quality of its products, which are snapped up by restaurateurs and gourmets alike. Local, local, local! The house also offers parcels of Parthenaise meat: place an order or drop in to see them...