Monday 9 May 2022

Spring Vegetables in the Touraine

We are very lucky to have a wonderful organic market garden on the outskirts of town, where I pick up our weekly veg every Monday evening. Here is a selection from recent visits to their farm shop and to the market in La Roche Posay, where I buy the best asparagus, freshly picked the morning of the market.

Organic spring vegetables at a farm shop, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Turnips, cabbage, celery and cauliflower.

Organic spring vegetables at a farm shop, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Celery, broccoli and cauliflower.

Organic spring vegetables in a farm shop, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Cave grown button mushrooms and spinach.

Organic spring carrots, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Organic spring carrots.

Organic lettuce, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Organic lettuce.

Organic radishes, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Organic radishes.

Organic pumpkins, Indre et Loire, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
Organic pumpkins, stored from when they were harvested in autumn.

Green asparagus, Vienne, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
The best freshly harvested green asparagus, grown in Saint Pierre de Maillé and sold in the market at La Roche Posay.

White asparagus, Vienne, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
White asparagus from the same producer.

The organic market garden is at La Petite Rabaudière, on the outskirts of Preuilly sur Claise. Their farm shop is open Monday evenings from 4 pm to 7 pm, and they come to the market in Preuilly on Thursdays.

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