La fromagerie du Domaine Saint Hippolyte
Four kilometres South from Lisieux, on the historical Gallo-Roman site stands Saint’s Hippolyte manor – an example of the typical Norman farm, dating back to the Middle Ages. The high courtyard brace the traditional master’s house, while lower down lays farmyard with preserved buildings, such as old bakery and cheesery. Unfortunately, the modern cheesery is…
La Ferme du Champ Secret
It is in the south of Normandy that my heart beats for the Norman cheese tradition. Here, the fields are free of pesticides, the rivers are protected from pollution, the cows are local and eat only grass. It is with their milk that the camembert I’m now going to tell you about is made, and…
La fromagerie de Pain d’Avaine
Out of Brittany Following the coastline eastwards, we finally, albeit regretfully, left Brittany behind and entered that part of France which introduced it to me as the country of cheese par excellence! Although this region counts a couple of very old pastes in its records, its current fame owes to a youth: white, bloomy, rather…
La Ferme du Clos du Val
The setting sun was shining through the magnificent crowns of the old oaks, it was reflecting in the puddles, spreading between wide shadows over the lush pastures and being absorbed by the black fur of the buffaloes. The landscape inhabited by these massive, gentle beasts carried me for a moment to India, but the cool…
La Ferme des Hirondelles
There was something unusual about Trémargat. On the surface, however, nothing but ordinary: a church in the middle, a crossroad, clusters of houses… in short, a small village like many others in France. So, what was it? At first I put this scent of strangeness on the account of the children who ran here and…
GAEC La Rainette
This time we pitched our tent in a pasture, straight down from donkey heaven: the grass was long and thick. I could listen to Fifi chew all night, unfortunately the first thunder of the year stole all my attention: I was counting the odds of being struck by lightning! But obviously they weren’t good enough,…
Les Cabrioles de Laoul’âne
One of the purposes of our trip is to find out which dream-animals we would like to work with. We travel to different farms to get an idea of which would be the easiest or most interesting to handle and which milk we want to process. However, the more we travel, the more confused we…
La Ferme de Kerlu
This article could be just about Pauline — the timid little woman who took the housewife position to a completely new level. I have always been fascinated by women who continued (or started!) their own business after the birth of a child, and I never expected to see women doing it after two, three or four…
Ferme de Logodec
Her parents were not farmers, yet young Céline dreamed of becoming one. Who knew then that this childhood passion would survive maturity and that Céline would one day make it her profession? and — who can top that? — a way of life? Today, twenty-five years after setting up her first farm with Christophe, she is…
12/03 — Suscinio
Journée de chien Suscinio se signale par son bord de mer, son château et un fromage dont les oiseaux font un sacré ramage. Si bien que l’on croit généralement en Bretagne que les rois mages sont descendus de leur bateau les bras chargés d’or, de myrrhe et de tome de Rhyus. Cela est faux —…
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