As every third Sunday in October, the apple and onion fair took place in Le Vigan, in the heart of the southern Cévennes, on Sunday 26 October. All the Gard and the Hérault had agreed to meet there. It is the season for autumn products, products of this so singular terroir of the southern Cévennes, sweet onions, reinette apples and chestnuts.
Cultivated in terraces, the "Oignon doux des Cévennes", PDO, is a pearly white onion for ageing. Its flesh is white, sweet and juicy. It can be eaten raw or cooked.
Le Vigan's reinette apple was already served at the table of kings in Versailles. It is a firm, fragrant apple with a firm flesh, rich in taste and full of energy.
The chestnut tree is the emblem of the Cévennes. The fruit of this true "bread tree" is eaten toasted, giving flour, cream or jam. The brand Châtaigne des Cévennes is in the process of obtaining a PDO.