With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row… Just before the slanting earth turns into the beaches of the Mediterranean, you’ll find Mas Les Ripouilles—home to a local vegetable farm and organic grocery store providing many of our picnics with fresh ingredients. Follow the farm-stand signs past fields and orchards…

We were eager to meet an organic local beekeeper when Vincent Bellande agreed to introduce us to his bees. But it wasn’t until we tasted his honey that we understood the real beauty of Vincent’s approach to apiculture. Vincent’s goal isn’t to harvest loads of honey, only to harvest good honey. He says happy bees make good…

Amongst the famous vineyards of the village of Calce, Carmen and Didier Lamirand care for their 50 year-old olive trees with a devotion nothing short of inspiring. A Franco-American-Cuban-South American family, in 2002 they moved back to Didier’s native France intent on making a go at organic olive oil production. “Historically this was the most…