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Honeys - Les ruchers de Bastien

Adresse du bénéficiaire

Lieu-dit Conches
Saint Frézal de Ventalon
48240 Ventalon-en-Cévennes
France

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Nadine Vilas ©

Honeys - Les ruchers de Bastien

Very attached to the Cévennes region where he was born, Bastien is a young beekeeper. He produces honeys with changing colors, just like his living environment.

After training as a beekeeper in Nîmes, internships with professionals, and a few years of practical experience, he chose bees, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, to stay in the mountains where he feels at home. After rearing queens early in the spring, he sets up his small apiaries as close as possible to successive flowerings, transhuming until late summer, less than an hour's drive from his honey house.

Since 2018, he has won medals every year at the Miels de France national competition!

Branded products:

Chestnut, acacia, white heather and wildflowers from the steep Cevennes valleys.
Wildflowers and callune from the Mont-Lozère massif.
Fine lavender and wild flowers from the Causses.

Direct home sales in Saint-Frézal de Ventalon.

Other points of sale in local stores in Lozère, Gard and Hérault.

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Very attached to the Cévennes region where he was born, Bastien produces honeys with changing colors, just like his living environment, and has won several medals at the Miels de France competitions.

I have been a professional beekeeper for several years a few years, this is my 5th year. It is really a partnership and an exchange with the living and the nature.

The advantage of the Cevennes is that, i would say, we are in areas protected areas.

There are practically only wild flowers and we also the chance to have different terroirs. We have the schist in the Cevennes, we have the granite in Mont-Lozère and we have the limestone on the Causses. Çallows us to make very different honeys in a very limited space.

Ji have a small sales room on the spot. Sf people are in demand I can explain them a little bit some things from here and in connection with the Parc national.

It is, i think, important to preserve at least some areas like the Parc national des Cévennes or other national parks in France.

Tveryone wins, as much for the inhabitants as for the people who come to walk around, the animals, the insects, the plants...everyone is a winner.