Soil and Know-How festivals

Festivities Programme:

- From farm to farm throughout the Ardèche.
- Festival « La bio dans les étoiles », in Annonay.
- Ethnoplante, the plant festival, in Largentière.
- Olive festival, in Vallon Pont d’Arc.
- Cherries and Picodon cheese en Fête, in Désaignes.
- Bilberry festival, in Péreyres.
- Winegrowers festival, in Ruoms.
- Fete de la Bouirade, at Thueyts.
- Bilberry market, in Mézilhac.
- The Autumn Sweet Chestnut Festival 'Castagnades d'Automne'.
- Fête de la Maoche, in Coucouron.
- Wine market, in Cornas.
(And even more in the French section !)

April: From farm to farm throughout the Ardèche
Next edition's date : Each year, the last week-end of April.





Children and adults will set out to discover the best of our land: tours, guided visits, farm product tasting and sales…




Practical information:
FDCIVAM07- Domaine Olivier de Serre
Le Pradel
07170 Mirabel
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 36 77 64 - Email - General website

"Le Bio dans les Étoiles", in Annonay.
Next edition date : 12 April 2013.

The Nature Vivante () (EKIBIO Group) business foundation has held the Bio Dans les Etoiles organic festival () in Annonay () since 2009. An organic market, cooking workshops, outdoor events, children’s activities, shows, film showings and wine-tastings round out the programme.

Contact :
« La bio dans les étoile » official website ()
Groupe Ekibio
Z.A. La Boissonnette
07340 Peaugres
Tel. : +33 (0)4 75 32 74 10 - Email

May: Ethnoplante, the plant festival, in Largentière
Next edition's date : Not yet communicated.




Cooking with wild plants, herbal medicine, cosmetics, vegetable dyes, children’s gardening workshops.






Practical information:
# Association « Savoirs de Terroir » () (=> Ethnoplante webpage )
Le Pradel
07170 Mirabel
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 35 88 50 or +33 (0)6 17 63 37 74 – Email.

# Largentière tourist office ()
BP 39
07110 Largentière
Tel +33 (0 )4 75 39 14 28 – Email.

Multimedia :
Overview of Ethnoplante festival, on a French video (2007).
Overview of Largentière, on a French video.
Sources : TV Ardèche and Ardèche-guide.

May: Olive Festival, in Vallon-Pont-d’Arc
Next edition's date : Not yet communicated.



A market with olive trees as the theme, tasting local olive oils, accompanied discovery walks, talks, visits to oil mills…




Practical information:
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc tourist office
Le Village
07150 Vallon-Pont-d'Arc
Tel. +33 (0)4 75 88 04 01 - Contact

July: Cherries and Picodon Cheese en Fête, in Désaignes
Next edition's date : 7 July 2013.




Events, competitions, producers market...





Practical information :
# The picodon official website ()

# "Au coeur du doux" tourist office ()
Place de la mairie
07570 Desaignes
Tel +33 (0)4 75 06 61 19 – Email.

# Désaignes town hall ()
07570 Désaignes
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 06 61 49 – Email

July: Bilberry festival, in Péreyres
Next edition's date : not yet communicated.



Demonstrations of collecting, gourmand workshops, tasting the blue gold of the Cévennes, small artisan market.



Practical information :
# Association « la myrtille sauvage d’Ardèche » ()
Baptiste Teyssier
Mairie
07190 Marcol-les-Eaux
Tel +33 (0)6 21 86 13 70.

# Péreyres town hall
Le Village
07450 Péreyres
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 94 51 59- Webpage about Péreyres ()

August: Winegrowers Festival, in Ruoms
Next edition's date : not yet communicated.




The great summer festival of the wines of southern Ardèche, visits, tasting, performances, regional products






Practical information :
# UVICA - Vignerons Ardéchois()
07120 Ruoms
Tel. : + 33 (0)4 75 39 98 00 - Email.

# Pays Ruomsois tourist office (=> direct link for Ruoms)
Rue Alphonse Daudet
07120 Ruoms
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 93 91 90 - Email.

# Ruoms town hall ()
Tel + 33 (0)4 75 39 98 20 - Email.


Multimedia :
Overview of the winegrowers festival, on a French video.
Source : Pays Ruomsois tourist office.

August : Fete de la Bouirade at Thueyts.
Next edition’s date: not yet communicated

For one night only, the narrow streets of Thueyts and the park surrounding the Château de Blou () take a step back to the turn of the 20th century as 300 costumed figures recreate the trades and traditions of times past. - a nostalgic look back to another age.


Practical information:
Anima’Thueyts (at Thueyts Town Hall ) - Page about the festival ()
Tel. : +33 (0)4 75 36 41 08 - Email.

August : Bilberry market, in Mézilhac
Next edition’s date: not yet communicated.

Taking place in the small village of Mézilhac, at 1,100m high, wild bilberry stalls grown in the Ardèche mountains, craftsmen, bilberry jam producers, bilberry juices, as well as how to collect this little fruit.

Practical information:
# Association « la myrtille sauvage d’Ardèche » (

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Baptiste Teyssier
Mairie
07190 Marcol-les-Eaux
Tel: +33 (0)6 21 86 13 70.


Multimedia:
Overviews of the Bilberry market, on French videos, by clicking here (2006) and here (2005).
Sources : TV Ardèche .

From mid October to mid November: the Autumn Sweet Chestnut Festival 'Castagnades d'Automne'
Next edition's date : Not yet communicated.



The celebrated sweet chestnut festivals () organized on 1 or 2 days in different villages: meetings with producers, artist craftsmen, artists, producers markets, tasting, chestnut roasts.



Practical information :
# The Monts d'Ardèche Regional Nature Park ()
Domaine de Rochemure
07380 Jaujac
Tel. : +33 (0)4.75.36.38.60 - Email.

# The Castagnades “Log book”() is available on request or for download (PDF) on the Monts d’Ardèche Regional Nature Park website ().

Multimedia :
General overviews of the Castagnades, by clicking here and here (French video).
Overview of the castagnades, in Antraigues, on a French video (2005).
Overview of the castagnades, in Privas, on a French video (2005).
Sources: Ardèche-Guide and TV Ardèche.

October: Fête de la Maoche, in Coucouron
Next edition's date : Not yet communicated.


The founders of the “ Maoche” brotherhood () had the idea of setting up a competition between professionals and individuals to make the stuffed pork dish that is a gastronomic speciality of the Ardeche Mountains. A great gastronomic moment in a very convivial atmosphere.


Practical information:
#Maoche’s brotherhood ()
Tel : +33 (0)4 66 46 13 99 ou  +33 (0)4 66 46 10 75 - Email.

# Coucouron tourist office ()
Av Joseph Bonhomme
07470 Coucouron
Tel: +33 (0)4 66 46 12 58 - Email.

# Coucouron town hall ()
Place de la Mairie
07470 Coucouron
Tel +33 (0)4 66 46 10 22 - Email.

Multimedia :
Overviews of the festival, on French videos, by clicking here (2005), and here (2007).
Source : TV Ardèche.

1st weekend in December: Wine market in Cornas
Next edition's date : Not Yet communicated.


Wine makers from all the northern Rhône Valley vintages come to show consumers the subtlety of their productions. Over 50 wine makers offer tastings of the Cornas (), Saint-Joseph (), Saint-Péray (), Condrieu, Côte-Rotie, Hermitage and Crozes-Hermitage AOCs.



Practical information:
# Cornas tourist office () (=> Direct link to Cornas webpage )
Rhône Crussol Tourisme
1, rue de la république
07130 Saint-Péray
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 40 46 75 – Contact.

# Cornas town hall ()
1 place de l’église
07130 Cornas
Tel : +33 (0)4 75 81 81 65 – Email.

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