OUR STORY

Touline Farm 

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At Touline Farm, we believe in bringing back the traditional French culinary culture of New France which inhabited East Texas and Louisiana during the mid 18th century colonial period. In doing so, we are bringing a farm-to-table concept created by traditional French methods of farming and growing herbs along with other food staples. 

 

The French have always used fresh and raw ingredients in everything they make to provide healthy food choices to everyone, especially with the early trade posts within Texas.

 

The name “Touline” comes from a French settler that traded along the Caddo trade routes of East Texas named ‘ François Grappé dit Touline’, who was famous among the French and Caddo Indians for maintaining friendly relationships. He was born in 1747 at Fort St. Louis in the Texarkana area, and lived in the Natchitoches area of Louisiana and started the settlement of Campti, Louisiana. Francois Touline had excellent knowledge of the land, raised cows, and built a homestead along the Red River. Touline frequented Fort Le Doute trade post near present day Wood County, Texas in the mid 1700's.

 

It was said by Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis himself, “that the wild grapes found in the woods between Natchitoches and Los Adaes could make wine as good as that of France, and that the grapes would bear a year after the vines were planted.” Near present day border of East Texas.

 

Please help us to grow our farm-to-table concept so that we can deliver our unique, but traditional French-Texas culture, to provide healthy and local organic food options to people within our communities and beyond.

 

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