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Selecting our local terroirs

Selecting our local terroirs

Offering you the best fresh vegetables means choosing and caring for the terroirs best suited to their production – all through the seasons.

Our activity is concentrated in areas with a great vegetable growing tradition : Val de Saire, Créances, Baie du Mont Saint Michel, Champagne, Val de Saône, Landes, Provence, Costa de la Luz and Samora Correia.

Each production basin has its own geographical, climate and geological conditions.
These ideal growing conditions, combined with the know-how and requirements of our growers, enable PRIMEALE vegetables to flourish in the best possible environment.

RESPECTING THE SEASONS

PRIMEALE grows lettuces in Normandy from May to October, and in Provence from October to May – bringing you truly seasonal salads all year round!

Démarches qualité

Most production sites have ISO 9001 version 2008 (packaging) and Globalgap (production) certification.
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GLOBAL G.A.P is mainly designed to reassure consumers as to the way in which foods are produced on the farm, by reducing the environmental impact of farming and guaranteeing a responsible approach to health and safety at work.
Landes carrots and Manche leeks and carrots have received the “Certified Quality Criteria” label.
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The “Certified Quality Criteria” label guarantees that your chosen vegetable is of better quality than “standard” vegetables.

Each type of vegetable has its own criteria: these are the subject of detailed specifications. They also undergo stringent controls by a mandated body.

So for example, Landes new carrots bearing the “Certified Quality Criteria” logo have guaranteed optimum freshness:
- Picked and dispatched in less than a day
- Made from selected varieties
- Traceability from the field to the consumer
Landes sand asparagus and Créances sand leeks have received the PGI label (Protected Geographical Indication).
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What is a Protected Geographical Indication?

The Protected Geographical Indication (P.G.I.) label was created by a European regulation in 1992. The P.G.I. label protects the name of a product from a limited geographical area, where the link to the origin is guaranteed by a reputation, quality or other specific characteristic, and with the production, processing and formulation taking place in the same geographical area.
Créances sand carrots and sand leeks have received the “Red Label”.
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The Red Label is the only official sign certifying that a food or farm product meets a set of previously established specific characteristics, guaranteeing superior quality. To achieve superior quality, the specific characteristics of labelled products are laid out in defined “specifications”. Whatever the product, in addition to strictly adhering to health and safety rules, the quality requirements and considerations for the label relate to production, processing and marketing. This Red Label concerns specific production requirements with regard to the work of growers and processors; the know-how for each aspect is adhered to by means of extremely strict specifications. The same is true for packaging, preservation, shipping and marketing techniques. The Red Label therefore provides better taste qualities.

For example: Red Label sand carrots are the result of stringent specifications relating to soil quality and preparation, phytosanitary protection, soil irrigation and carrot sorting.

This stringency ensures this vegetable’s unique taste (pleasant and mild, with no bitterness, crunchy, juicy and fine), as recognised and acclaimed by consumers during tests.