Vergers de la Vallee
- Type
- Farm / Primary Producer
- Location
- Éghezée, Belgium
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products
- Domains
- Fruit, Plant based primary products
About Vergers de la Vallee
Vergers de la Vallée is a family-run fruit orchard in Hanret, Wallonia, focused on apples and pears grown with an environmentally responsible approach. The business says it has moved from integrated pest management to fruit production without pesticide residues and then to certified organic apples, with pears also in organic conversion.
The company serves consumers looking for fresh fruit and fruit derivatives such as juices and syrup. It positions itself around respect for the environment, biodiversity, and fruit quality, while also emphasizing a long family history on the same orchard site and direct contact with customers through its local sales points and farm presence.
Core Values
- Environmental respect: The orchard repeatedly stresses that its fruit is produced in the strictest respect for the environment, with reduced chemical inputs and a focus on natural methods.
- Biodiversity: The company uses hedges, bird boxes, perches for birds of prey, and beehives to support a balanced orchard ecosystem and natural pollination.
- Fruit quality: It presents its work as a search for good taste, nutritional quality, and dietary value, while also broadening varietal choice for consumers.
- Family continuity: The business highlights three generations of the Fallon family working the orchard, underlining continuity, know-how, and long-term stewardship.
Unique Aspects
- Long family history on the same orchard: The orchard was acquired by Edouard Fallon in 1968, and the family says it is now in its third generation on the domain.
- Historic pear trees still producing: The site preserves a row of pear trees planted in 1938, described as among the first low-stem trees in Belgium and still productive today.
- Certified organic apples and organic pear conversion: Apples were certified organic in September 2021, while pears entered organic conversion in December 2021.
- Ecological orchard management: The company combines integrated pest management, no pesticide residues, mechanical weeding, biodiversity measures, and springtime placement of around thirty beehives for pollination.