Wépion strawberry

Between the two World Wars, the paid leave entitlement and the emergence of popular tourism in the production area contributed to the reputation of this strawberry.

The trade expansion happened in the 1960s with the consolidation of the different local marketplaces in a cooperative that was located at the border between Bois-de-Villers and Wépion.

The urbanization of the villages and the increase of legal restrictions in the 1970s prompted a drastic and important reduction of the number of producers, only about ten of whom remained in the early 1980s.

Besides their fully ripe crop, the particularity of the Criée de Wépion's strawberries is the fact that they are presented by being arranged in the same vein on the top of the punnet.

Every evening at 7.30 during the harvest season, the strawberry growers offer their produce at an auction which is open to the merchants and traders.