La ferme des Châbles

Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut - Joël and Estelle Mottier rear twenty or so suckler Angus cows on their organic farm, La Ferme des Châbles, in Les Moulins. The grass fodder harvested during the summer months at La Lécherette and Les Mosses keeps the herd well fed throughout winter. In the summer, the cows and their calves graze on the pastures of the family’s Grand Ayerne mountain farm of in the L’Hongrin valley.
Joël and Estelle are committed to local food, which is why they only sell their meat directly to families and commercial customers in the surrounding areas. They provide customised variety meat packs, with a quarter-beef box the smallest they offer. They also use the meat from cows at the end of their productive life to make dried meats, salami, minced beef and other beef-based products. These fresh and frozen products are then sold on to retail outlets.
For more than 10 years the Ferme des Châbles has also rented out rooms to short-stay guests, including the more recent addition of a separate holiday let

on the farm.