Farm Tour
Come meet us for a farm visit with guided tour. A 2 hours excursion in the garden with a taste of our delicious products.
FARM EXPERIENCE
Discover the family food forest and products
Our brand has been named after the location of our traditional Sicilian family farm.
We are located in the territory of Giarre-Riposto on the east coast of Sicily. At the foot of Mount Etna the tallest active volcano in Europe. Thanks to Mount Etna and its unique soil and micro-climate this area has always been particularly fertile, historically famous for grapes and wine in 1800, lemons and citrus in general in 1900, potatoes and in the last 30 years with the climate shift a number of subtropical varieties such as avocado, mango, custard apple, etc. We are able to grow a large variety of plants and trees, over 100 edible today. Ranging from the most famous Sicilian varieties (lemon, blood orange and avocado) to Mediterranean and edible herbs.
the food forest
After many years of patient preparation we can now finally show you the beauty of our multi-variety food forest through a comprehensive tour with abundant fruit and product tasting to glimpse the Sicilian way of living off the land.
Following a detailed set of options you can choose depending on your desires and your available time to make your experience absolutely unique.
Want to experience more?
You can add at the basic entrance the following:
1. Farm-to-table lunch
Stay over for lunch! Chill out, have a glass of wile and enjoy a meal with a selection of traditional farmer dishes and ingredients coming directly from our farm network.
Relish Sicilian cuisine and be impressed by the atmosphere of a farm setting.
3. Cooking class
Learn to cook like a Sicilian! read more Discover the farm during a guided tour, taste and directly pick the ingredients you need to make your meal. You will end up learning the insights on how to incorporate healthy ingredients to enhance your daily meal. read less
Everyone loves Sicilian food. What is better than cooking with a Sicilian family in a farm, getting some fresh products for a farm-to-table lunch. We design a cooking experience based on Sicilian lemons which lets you enjoy a traditional Sicilian meal and understand the essence of Sicilian living.
2. Become a farmer for a day
A chance to be a farmer in our food forest! read more Everyone thinks farming is hard but it is the most creative and fun way to combine work and life. Learn the magic of nature and the importance of biodiversity. After the guided tour of the farm, we will let you try different seasonal activities like fruit picking, grafting or planting. We have many different tasks and artisanal tools to work in our garden. Working with not one or two type of fruits but many varieties. You will experience not just seasonality but biodiversity itself; you will be amazed by all kinds of fruits no matter which season you come. If you are new to farming, you can learn something; if you are an expert, you can still learn something here because we don’t have just a farm but a food forest! read less
Have you ever imagined what a farmer does in a day? Take part in our seasonal activities and prepare a few farmer’s dishes with our family. Spend an authentic and unique day in our food forest. Forget about your stress and get immersed in the nature.
There is more! Farmers eat too and as a matter of fact they are the last to starve. After our morning together we are certainly going to get hungry: time for lunch! You will helping us to prepare and enjoy some delicious farmer’s dishes with ingredients grown and picked directly in our garden.
4. Orange tasting
(Seasonal Feb-Apr)
How many types of oranges have you ever tried? 1, 2 or 3? Our food forest offers 10 varieties of orange waiting for you to discover. If you are an orange lover, you can’t miss this chance. Come in winter to learn all about different flavours of Sicilian oranges and feel the sunshine the oranges give you!
5. Special tasting
An experience focused on specific type of products such as honey, wine and olive oil which will provide you with a glance of the huge edible landscape Sicily offers. read more Our tasting is not just about tasting good food, it is about tasting terroir and understanding biodiversity. We organize a tasting with honey harvested by nomadic beekeepers around Sicily. You can taste the landscape of oriental Sicily, including Mount Etna (East), Erei Mountains (Central), Iblei Mountains (South), Peloritani Mountains (North) and learn the diversity of forage. All farmer in Sicily have their own olive oil. This is how sacred and important olive oil is in Sicilian household. Through olive oil tasting, you will learn not only the terroir but also be tutored on how to recognize good olive oil and how to use it. You will uncover the secrets of what we call it, the green gold! Everyone says the wine in Sicily is so good. We have no doubt. We want to show you more than just good wine, Sicilian wine tastes so different from the east to the west. This tasting will provide a unique occasion to taste different backgrounds in one go! read less
With our connections we zoom out to other locations in Sicily and make a selection of the best and most interesting products.
Honey tasting:
Olive oil tasting:
Wine tasting:
6. Basic accommodation
Single/double up to 4 beds room
Stay in apartment at the nearest village 5 minutes on foot from the train station with access to the sea (15 minutes walk).
