Sunday Afternoon

After La Ferme des blés d’or we headed off to Chessy-les-prés, a small village on the south western edge of our region. I had wanted to visit the jardins du Val d’Armance, a nursery for flowers and plants. They are actually open all year round, but as we hadn’t visited before we took today as the opportunity.

I have to say they did not disappoint. It was a really healthy, well stocked nursery, with a glorious display of colourful plants, both annuals and perennials. I was conscious I had bought quite a few plants recently, so didn’t want to over-do it, but I still couldn’t resist buying a few trailing plants for some troughs I am going to pot up to go on top of the wall between the courtyard and garden.

We then drove to Cusangy, the village of our mushroom producer. He sells at our local market in Bar-sur-Seine on a Friday morning. I had wanted to visit the mushroom farm for some time, so what better day than today. They had various cellar rooms filled with compost filled, black plastic bags which had various types of mushrooms growing out of them. It wasn’t a pretty environment, but I adore mushrooms, so this was heaven for me. The earthy, savoury smell lingered in the damp conditions. They have a very attractive shop on the premises, which sells all of their mushroom varieties, mushroom pastries, various mushroom sauces and pastes. We will definitely be visiting this shop again.