Breakfast at the Alps farms

Lunch at the Alps farm

Manufacturing of the Gruyère AOC

Destination Gruyère offers you the opportunity to spend some time at the alp with a typical farmers familiy who produce the Gruyère AOC. You have the possibility to stay a full day, spend a night in the farm or spend just a few hours with them!

Breakfast at the Alps farm

The breakfast is certainly the most important meal on the Alps. Very early in the morning the farmer wakes up, call his cows to be milked. After collecting our white gold, he starts the process of our AOC Gruyère cheese making ! If you want to participate in the farmer’s daily routine and don’t mind for a little walk early in the morning, you are welcome to join him! Once the main daily job done, the farmer will share with great pleasure his breakfast with his guests!

A lunch at the Alps farm

Spending the day working in the fields or in the forest, it is suddenly lunch time! Coming back to his chalet, the farmer will prepare a good plate of macaronis or a home-made soup!

The manufacturing of the Gruyère cheese

The famous cheese has been manufactured for more than 800 years and it is still produced in our region today. Every year about 50 farmers living in the Alps of the Swiss French region produce about 400 tons of Gruyère AOC (the annual production is about 27´000 tons). Proud about the distinction AOC (appelation d`origine controlée) received in July 2001 the farmers cheese-makers would have a great pleasure to teach you their secrets…well, almost all of them…

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