PICK YOUR OWN

Les Fermes de Gally...a reference in French self-pick farms

One of the best pick-your-own farms in France, Les Fermes de Gally, is not far from Versailles, and therefore, not that far from Paris. A real treat tiptoeing through the tulips and digging up leeks even on a drizzly Sunday in the mud.

Vocabulary
cueillir:  to pick
la gadoue:  the mud
une pluie fine:  a drizzle
pluvieux, ieuse:  rainy
bottes en caoutchouc:  rubber boots
For your easy listening pleasure

La Gadoue with Petula Clark or try Jane Birken's more graphic version of the same tube (that's French slang for hit). Fun.

Text & photos ©2011 P.B. Lecron

FANCY PANTRY

My word, is that jar of apricots wearing a tutu? Be the first on your block to dress up your preserves with a round of tulle netting and gold elastic ribbon like these French cherries, prunes and apricots soaked in wine. A ballet on the shelves of the épicerie of Les Fermes de Gally, near Versailles.

VOCABULARY
une griotte:  a Morello cherry
une cerise:  a cherry
un pruneau:  a prune
un abricot:  an apricot
un garde-manger:  a pantry, a cupboard
une épicerie:  a grocery store
une ferme:  a farm
Text & photo ©2011 P.B. Lecron

An update...
Charming in another way, and teaching a lesson in the importance of helping others, is the newly published children's story Le lapin et la lune, écrit par Marianne Lecron, illustré par P. B. Lecron. It and its English version translated from the French, The Rabbit and the Moon, are available worldwide on Amazon.