Le Jardin de Cydonie

Nestled in the heart of the Pays de Mayenne, in St-Fraimbault-de-Prières, the Jardin de Cydonie (Garden of Cydonia) is a small green paradise with beehives, fruit trees, herbs and spices.
In this preserved environment, we cultivate our orchards and our plantations carefully respecting the cycles of nature and the seasons, and produce high quality local products: quince jelly and quince cheese, mixed berry jelly, saffron, sichuan pepper and herbs. The pollination of flowers is done by the bees from our hives, which produce throughout the season a high quality honey, with which we prepare a delicious gingerbread and traditional nonnettes flavoured with home made bergamote jelly.

Summer Honey

Gold color, slightly orange-yellow, this honey comes from the nectar of flowers blooming in summer Mayenne countryside: bramble flowers, chestnut and wildflower meadows. We harvest it in July.

Harvesting site : Saint Fraimbault de Prières (Mayenne, France)
Net weight : 350 g
Price : 6 euros
Gingerbread (Pain d'épices)

From the honey of our hives, we elaborate a tender and tasty gingerbread, ideal for breakfast or for a snack.

Ingredients: honey, milk, rye flour semi-complete, wheat flour, butter, eggs, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, baking soda.
Net weight : 415 g
Price : 5 euros
Nonnettes

With our honey, we elaborate delicious nonnettes perfumed with our home made bergamote jelly.

Ingredients: wheat flour, honey, water, sugar, butter, baking soda, home made bergamote jelly
Net weight : 60 g
Price :1 euro
Beeswax
We sell the best beeswax from our beehives, melted and purified. Beeswax is a natural material, ideal for making your own candles or other artistic creations (sculpture, etc). You can also use it to prepare your own polish.
Price : please contact us.
Quince Jelly

Our quince jelly is made from the fruit of our own farm. The fruit is picked when it is ripe, when it is a beautiful golden yellow colour and when it begins to give off a delicious and enchanting aroma.

Use: Quince jelly is very popular on toast in the morning, as a topping on an apple pie or as an accompaniment to foie gras, cheeses such as Roquefort...

Ingredients : quinces, sugar, water
Net weight : 300 g
Price : 5 euros
Quince Fruit Paste

From the fruits of our farm, we elaborate a delicious quince fruit paste. The fruits are picked when they are ripe, when they turn a beautiful golden yellow and start to exhale a delicious and bewitching perfume.

Ingredients : quinces, sugar, water
Net weight : 125 g
Price : 5 euros
Red Fruit Jelly

We make our red fruit jelly from the best fruits from the blackcurrant, redcurrant, raspberry and bramble plants grown on our farm, without any added jelly: the pectin naturally contained in the fruits, and carefully controlled cooking are enough to produce a jelly rich in flavour and deliciously melting in the mouth.

Ingredients : raspberries, blackberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, sugar, water
Net weight : 300 g
Price : 5.50 euros
Safran
Coming from the stigmas of the crocus flower (Crocus sativus) that we grow, our saffron is harvested in the autumn, hand-trimmed and carefully dried. To preserve all its properties, we sell our saffron only as whole stigmas. Saffron is a much sought-after spice, deliciously flavoured: essential in paella, Indian-style rice pilaf, bouillabaisse, risottos, rice cakes, fruit compotes... It also accompanies seafood, fish, curries and flavours a large number of liqueurs.

Price : please contact us.
Sichuan pepper

Produced from pepper trees (Zanthoxylum piperitum, also known as clavaliers) planted on our farm, we harvest this pepper every autumn. With its unique flavour, it can be used on its own to season a dish with its powerful peppery, aniseed and lemon aromas, to spice up meat and poultry dishes, for example. Sichuan pepper can also be used successfully with desserts: it will enhance the sweet taste of a chocolate mousse by giving it a spicy, tangy note; it will be wonderful in a fresh fruit salad or with sorbets.

Price: please contact us.
Contact us
We are present on Saturday mornings (8am-12.30pm) at the Mayenne street market, place du 9 juin 1944, where we offer most of our products for sale, depending on the season.
Le Jardin de Cydonie
Thierry Le Guillou
6 rue Florence Arthaud
53100 Mayenne
France