There’s something very satisfying in using the fruits and vegetables you grow to create your own unique recipees.
It all started with onions in 2000
A very special sweet onion, renowned around the world, appreciated by top chefs as THE sweet onion.
Onion Seedlings
Onions grown from seed in one season.
Seeded from the beginning of January till the 15th March in outdoor seedbeds, then pulled up by hand and replanted further apart from 1st may till 10th June. Harvesting starts from mid August and can last till the beginning of September. All work is carried out manually hence the relatively high cost of this delicious onion. Produced by just over a hundred farmers in a small part of the Cévennes. Exclusively cultivated on mountain terraces retained by granit our shiste dry stone walls.
Beignets d’Oignons Doux des Cévennes
In 2000, shortly after our first harvest we introduced ‘Les Beignets d’Oignons Doux des Cévennes’. An onion fritter made with chickpea flour. Inspired by an indian recipee.
This has now become a regional recipee, copied by many but never equaled!
“Our farm is a small family run business, everything is available in limited quantities. The main ingredients in all our products are home grown at La Clède.”
One of our adult Tamworth Pigs
Paul with Nelly and Julia, two of his sows
Some hungry adolescents
Habanero Maya chillis
Heirloom Tomatoes
Ready for picking
Berkshire pig
Salads in early spring
The river that flows all along our property on a quiet day.
Our Passerelle, main acces to the farm, taken away by floods in September 2020
View from the passerelle (RIP) with the Mont Aigoual in the background
Our beautiful Cévennes
Carolina Reaper, Hottest chilli in the world! Valleraugue July 2023