Our farm is run using organic methods and consists of 21 hectares in the woods of the national park of Casentino Forest.

Five hectares of this are arable fields, a heritage from the days when people lived from the land.

These fields were once woodland and it required great hardship and effort to reclaim them. Now they are finally being used once more and made ready to plant new crops. After thirty years of disuse it was a big job to clear all the overgrown vegetation. We’ve planted 850 fruit trees, antique varieties of apples, pears and cherries, including the Nesta apple known as far back as the Roman times.

We produce potatoes (a pink-skinned variety with yellowish flesh), Verna wheat, chickpeas, lentils and walnuts.

We don’t use any chemical manure or fertilisers.

We live in an area where nobody cultivates the land anymore and we couldn’t find anyone willing to come with a combine harvester to harvest our wheat last year.

To harvest our long-awaited and much desired Verna wheat we first cut and tied it by hand and then bought an old courtyard threshing machine which we personally restored and got back in working order after years of neglect..This year we will harvest with an old BCS harvester (which cuts and ties) like they used to do in the old days

This goes to show that we are passionate about our convictions and when we eat our own bread made from Verna wheatflour and baked in our woodfired oven, the delicious smell and taste gives us great satisfaction.
We are planning to open a farm brewery producing unfiltered wheat berry beer, made with homeproduced hops and Verna wheat.

Come and visit us, Marzio.