Mont d’Or takes centre stage in Pontarlier at a feast hosted by Julien Locatelli. Cheese tasting, a wrapping workshop and a Mont d’Or quiz explore the product through flavour, practical skills and play. Cow milking and vintage tractors bring farming into the programme, while wooden games, drawing and a giant slide give families further ways to take part.
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Farmers’ Market & Barbecues in Dole: Local Flavor
Marché de producteurs & Barbecues Paysans brings local producers and craftspeople together in Dole. Shoppers can buy food at the stalls and eat it at the barbecue tables, with benches provided for the shared meal. Concerts accompany the market, organised by Rendez-vous saveurs bio et savoir-faire in partnership with Arts tout terrain and with municipal support.
Les marchés au Clair de Lune in Foucherans: Local Delights
At Les marchés au Clair de Lune in Foucherans, producer stalls share the night market with craft sellers. Fruit and vegetable vendors stand alongside food stalls serving barbecue, chips, hot dogs and other snacks. A refreshment bar with draught beer provides drinks to accompany the food available at the market.
Marché bio de Tarragnoz in Besançon: Organic Market
Marché bio de Tarragnoz is Besançon’s only weekly farmers’ market devoted entirely to organic produce. It is organised by the Village Tarragnoz association, which brings local residents together with organic producers from the area. The association also runs a wider programme of events alongside its market activity.
Ribesthèque in Nuits-Saint-Georges: Liqueur Tasting
Fruirouge’s Ribesthèque centres on Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne IGP Bio en Sélection Parcellaire, an organic blackcurrant liqueur made with fruit from selected plots. The Olivier family presents rare cuvées from its collection in a historic cellar. Tasting across vintages explores the liqueur’s concentration and the character of its terroir.
Printemps Bio in Montigny-le-Chartif: Farmers’ Market
Printemps Bio takes place at Ferme Beauchêne Paillot in Montigny-le-Chartif. Local organic producers bring seasonal vegetables, red berries and eggs to the market. A family workshop accompanies the stalls, and the programme introduces La Table d’Annick, a cooking project centred on local ingredients and creative dishes.
Farmers’ Market in Montargis: Local Delights
Farmers and craftspeople gather in the central streets of Montargis for a producers’ market and artisan fair. Food stalls provide opportunities to taste local products, alongside handmade goods offered by their makers. The programme brings agricultural produce and small-scale craft into the same town-centre gathering.
Open Day at Durbois Farm in Billancelles: Pig Festival
Ferme de Durbois opens its pig farm in Billancelles for visits and activities around livestock. The programme includes encounters with farm animals, horse-drawn carriage rides and activities for children. A local producers’ market accompanies the farm opening, followed by a spit-roasted pig meal with music; the meal requires a reservation.
Martiz’agri in Martizay: Farming Festival
Martiz’agri gathers farm animals, livestock equipment and agricultural demonstrations in Martizay. Sheep and shepherd-dog activities accompany machinery displays and games for children. A local producers’ market and on-site food complete the programme, with folk music joining the practical demonstrations of farming and rural life.
Lentil Green Festival in Vatan: Taste & Celebrate
Vatan’s Fête de la lentille verte du Berry puts the region’s emblematic green lentil at the centre of public life. Tastings allow visitors to understand its culinary character, while new-crop sales create direct contact with the people who cultivate and prepare it. A farmers’ and crafts market broadens the celebration to other local products and forms of making, giving the festival a strong rural economy dimension. Street music and parade floats carry the subject beyond the stalls and into the town, joining food culture with collective spectacle. Jérôme Maugis contributes a stage show devoted to Patrick Bruel, adding a familiar popular-music reference to the programme. The festival’s identity remains grounded in the lentil itself: a Berry product encountered through taste, knowledge, trade and the community that celebrates its harvest.