Expérience
A la rencontre de nos producteurs locaux

Our local producers have talent! Go to the discovery of their savoir-faire. Let them tell you about their job with passion and, above all, do not miss the chance to taste their products.

Step 1- In beekeeper’s shoes

In Pays du Roquefort, we have ewes but also bees! They gather nectar in a patchwork of landscapes, between Rougier, Causses, heaths, and valleys, on a dozen sites rich in biodiversity, preserved by passionate farmers. Follow Nadia and Bruno for a real immersion inside bees’ world. Share a moment of amazement before the world of bees, improve your link with nature!

Glazed hives, open hives in total safety and short movies about hives: it is all there for you to discover, with all 5 senses awakened, the world of bees in real time, and the contemporary profession of organic beekeeper!

Observe the live opening of a hive, without any risk, and enjoy the macro details thanks to a live camera. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to witness a birth!

Discover the inside of a beehive, the wax and smell its scent live, assemble and disassemble a hive to understand how it works, take a frame of honey in your hand.

Learn to recognise the different types of bees, their daily harvest, their exchanges, and take part in the extraction of honey (during the harvest period) in the workshop...

After this personal meeting with our bees, what could be better than a tasting? During an introduction to organoleptic analysis of flavours, you will have at least 10 honeys to taste. Will you know how to identify wooded, floral, and wild hints in our honeys?

A memorable experience, guaranteed to awaken the senses within a world as fascinating as gourmet!

Step 2 – The Alcas Farm

The goal of the day is to discover the wonderful, fortified village of Saint-Jean d’Alcas, in the bucolic settings of the Alcas Farm.

Alexandre, a breeder at heart, and Emilie, a seeker of meaning, have been picked up the family torch that has kept the Alcas Farm for over 5 generations. They look after 300 ewes which produced a certified organic and Demeter milk. This milk, so carefully harvested, is partly delivered to the Société company to produce Roquefort, and for the rest, it is transformed into cheese at the farm: the Bleu d’Alcas as well as yogurts in a wide range of flavours, that make those biodynamic producers well-known, well beyond the Aveyron department.

Proud of this savoir-faire, they share their passion by offering you a warmly welcome to visit their farm. Through a photography exhibition that recount the steps of the production of a yogurt and a cheese, their work and the biodynamic farming particularities will no longer hold any secret!

At the end of the visit, it is the gourmet time with the tasting of their ewes’ unpasteurised cheese, their yogurts, or their jam. Your surely come away with a different perspective on agriculture and the living world.