Festival Gourmand'ici

Tastings, activities, botanical walks, shows, exhibitions, cooking workshops…

Entertainment stands, demonstrations and tastings for the whole family 

• 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.: Two workshops “compose your funny plate with fruits and vegetables” led by the Association Famille Laïque

• 10 a.m.: Animation: “Experiment on water, soil, wetlands and hedges” with the Syndicat Mixte du Bassin versant Aveyron Amont, Adasea d’Oc and the Arbres Haies Paysages 12 association.

• 10:30 a.m. and 14 p.m.: Two Nordic bread making workshops. On registration here

• 10:30 a.m.: Cooking demonstration with students from Lycée St Joseph, EREA de Laurière and Lycée Savignac

• 11:30 a.m. and 14 p.m.: Two sessions of the Garde-Manger Game with the E'sème association (from 8 years old to 99 years old)

• 11:45 a.m.: Local aperitif with music – Refreshment bar offered by the associative café Les Hauts Parleurs 

• 12 p.m.: Large, friendly and local meal – With Chef Aurélie Cailhol from the Liens de Rodez integration restaurant and the organic market garden cooks from the “Piquant Léger” collective in Saint-Salvadou

Bowl with local flavors: flower falafels, pulled Aveyron veal with wild herbs, pitas, vegetables, fresh salad

Fruit garden and sheep's yogurt cake

Menu for adults: 10€ / Menu pitchoun: 6€

No registrations

• 15 p.m.-17 p.m.: Dedication of the cookbook “La Marmite qui milite” with Hélène Leclerc and the Librairie La Folle Avoine

• 15:30 p.m.: Game on the different methods of preserving prehistory in the 21st century (from 8 to 99 years old) with the E'sème association

• 16 p.m.: Musical show “Radishes don’t count as butter!” » Cie du Zézargo. 45'. From 6 years old.

“A garden musical show for children, with dirty hands and feet under the table”. Léa invites us to her farm and introduces us to the world of market gardening.

• 17 p.m.: Great snack from here and elsewhere with the participation of the Villefranche-de-Rouergue charity network, the artisan Laurence Gineste and the gourmet snack “Le Lieu-dit”.

The sustainable food forum all day with more than 25 stands:

• Lactofermentation and anti-waste workshop with the Najac cannery

• Workshop “A label around the world” and presentation of Social Food Security with UPPCOA

• Demonstration, tasting and sale of spit cakes with Laurence Gineste

• Tofu making workshop with the Third Place of Ségala

• Nutrition workshop with Mar Bordanova and Karine Veque

• Screen printing workshop with Hors Cadre

• “Around seeds” workshop with Esème

• Book sales stand at the La Folle Avoine bookstore

• Thematic book stand at the La Manufacture media library

• APABA stand on organic agriculture in Aveyron 

• Stand on agriculture of the Aveyron Chamber of Agriculture

• IRVA stand: Consuming meat sustainably, tasting veal from Aveyron and Ségala 

• “Edible flowers on your plate” stand with Les Jardins de l’Instant Végétal

• Blind tasting stand with the Saveurs Paysannes producer store

• School stand presenting accessible training around food in Villefranche-de-Rouergue: EREA de Laurière, Lycée Savignac, Lycée Beauregard, Lycée Saint Joseph, Lycée Beauregard transformation workshop

• Honey tasting stand and activities around bees – Rucher Ecole Villefranchois REV12

• Smoothie bike: make a low-carbon smoothie, using your legs, in partnership with Biocoop 

All day: Refreshment bar offered by the Les Hauts Parleurs associative café

Cooking workshops for the whole family (from 5 years old) – upon registration*

• 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., La Ruche social center: Easy cooking workshop led by Florie Pouzoulet – artistic animation by actress Laetitia Cador, meal on site at 12 p.m.

• 9:45 a.m. – 12 p.m., Les Hauts Parleurs associative café: Cooking workshop led by Hélène Leclerc, head chef of Bienvenue en Transition on the theme “I don’t like vegetables, or how to get children to eat vegetables”, meal on site at 12 p.m.

• 14 p.m.-16 p.m.: La Ruche social center: Pastry workshop led by Claire Bergon, mother and cook at the Martiel school on the theme “making a local snack with your children”

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Around plants, gardens and bees – upon registration: 

Registration opens approximately 15 days before the festival

• 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.: Two walks to discover wild edible plants with Michaël Fayret, wild gatherer. Departure in front of the Town Hall. Upon registration here

• 14 p.m.-16 p.m.: Opening of the Generation 12 links garden (crossing the alleys, behind the cinema): Discovery and manufacturing of a solar dryer and different conservation methods with Boris Kubiki. Free tasting

• 14:30 p.m.: Shared garden of Les Ruelles (crossing the alleys, behind the cinema): walk in the vegetable garden: “the medicinal qualities of vegetables” with La Botanique pour Tous

Exhibitions : 

“MEAL” exhibition by the artist Léa Curtis – Bar Associatif Les Hauts Parleurs 

ADEME exhibition on food waste 

Exhibition and games “Cooking in the Middle Ages” at the Pays d’Art et d’Histoire des Bastides du Rouergue

The plus points of the festival: 

• At the La Manufacture media library: find a thematic selection of documents (books, magazines, CDs, DVDs) on the theme of sustainable food for several weeks.

• The game library will offer games around food during the week of the festival 

• Saturday September 28 at 18 p.m. at the Café Associatif Les Hauts Parleurs: Exhibition opening 
“Meal” by the artist Léa V. Curtis, blind test & soup 

This event is organized by Ouest Aveyron Communauté in partnership with the Bastides et Gorges de l'Aveyron tourist office.

Funded as part of the 4th Regional Health and Environment Plan – PRSE – Occitanie