Ardelaine

Rural topic(s): (Agri)-tourism and rural heritage, Local food Chains, Rural entrepreneurship and diversification of activities

City: St Pierreville

Country: France

Web site: http://www.ardelaine.fr

Local cooperative processing local wool in an environmental and social way, in cooperation with local sheperd. It has also devloped other activities like a wool museum, workshops, restaurant and local shop.

Scale of intervention : Local, Regional

Keywords: locally-based economy, local supply chain, local partnership, local food processing, crafts, local community initiative, wool processing, social and solidarity economy, sustainable tourism, rural heritage, safeguard of knowledge, rural entrepreneurship, job creation, organic farming, solidarity customers, fair price, territorial project, higher added-value products

Places: France

Actors: self-governing social enterprise (cooperative)

Methods: partnership, facilitation

Success stories:

[EXP] Ardelaine: a cooperative project based on wool-processing becomes a driving force for local development.