The art and local produce shop
The abbey shop offers a range of Saintonge farm produce, food and wellness products, as well as a cultural bookshop.
- farm products and crafts from Saintonge Romane:
- Sweet biscuits including galettes saintongeaises and biscuits from “les saveurs de Jeanne” workshop in Beurlay
- Biscuits from La Petite Fabrique, a bakery in Trizay
- Organic herbal teas and hydrolats from “Les Graines Buissonnières” in Saint-Savinien
- Apple juice and jams from “Les Vergers du Maine Allain” in Saintes
- Pineau & Cognac and “Vieux Moulin” liqueurs from Virollet
- Local wine “les vignerons de l’Atlantique” from Saint André de Lidon
- Organic beer from Les Essards
- Honey from “Miel d’Elle” beekeeper in Saint-Pierre-de-Juiller”.
- Salt and mustard from Ile Madame
- Vegetable oil soaps from “Savonnerie En Bullant” in Rochefort
- Spirulina from Rochefort
- Oil, dried vegetables and grape juice from “la ferme de L’Orée” in Thézac
- “Asnières-la Giraud” duck confits and terrines
- Safran from Marennes
- Seeds to sow from “Graines dans le vent” from Epargnes
- Vinegar from “Saint-Pierre de Julliers”
- Aspargus from Tesson
- Pasta “Bléo” de Breuil-la-Réorte
- Lemonade, cola and ice tea “La Bullerie d’Oléron” from l’île d’Oléron
- Calligraphy material and vegetable inks “La petite lumière”
- Baskets Céline Matthews from Tonnay-Charente
- Stoneware pottery by Agnès Puissant de Champagne
- Raku pottery by Nathalie Chapon from Fouras
- “Makkilli” body care from Fouras
- Products from the medieval era :
- Hypocras wine (organic & biodynamic) produced in Aude
- A wide range of books on the region, history, architecture and life in the Middle Ages, and a Monography on the abbey.
- Artistic postcards by the photographer Etienne Florange on Trizay Abbey, the Romanesque churches of Saintonge, the Compostelle gardens of Trizay, the Saintonge countryside (flora and fauna).
- The monography on the abbey the brand new, richly illustrated monography has been written by Christian Gensbeitel, Senior Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art at Bordeaux Montaigne University. this guide provides full details of the abbey, its history, architecture and sculpture. This monography is one of the first three editions in the Abbatia collection, a regional network of abbeys in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, along with Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (86) and Saint-Amant-de-Boixe (16). This 64-page document is on sale for €8.50 from the abbey shop.