HOW OUR ORGANIC FARM AROSE

We decided to move from Rome to our casale at Torre Colombaia (a family property since 1860) in 1987, as an effort to make something ecologically real, i.e. to save 320 acres from pollution and chemical agriculture (after so many, often frustrating, demonstrations against nuclear weapons, nuclear plants, euromissiles, Berlusconi, and so on).
Our Eco-Farm is protected by a large secular wood – owned for centuries by Benedictine friars. Old local peasants still keep memory of traditional agricultural techniques.
So we began to plant again lentils, spelt, flax, old kinds of wheat and sunflower, to mill them in a stone-mill, to make our organic sunflower oil, to cook meals according to old local recipes, etc. Now we offer to our visitors a corner of countryside from where you do not see any house or city in your 360° horizon, but only fields, meadows, old oaks, no noisy swimming pools but a natural pond.