The Custodians

Our story began about ten years ago when we recovered a minimal amount of seed, jealously guarded by an elderly farmer.

The Il Contropodere farm was born in 2000, in a small property that has been run for several decades without the use of any chemical product.

The Il Marchese Magro farm was born with the primary aim of conforming the love for nature and the products of the earth to full environmental and social sustainability.

We are a small agricultural reality that deals with the cultivation of historical Italian grains; we do a stone milling of the flour and processing of pasta with a bronze die.

Recovery and reproduction of native fruit-bearing varieties registered in the regional varietal registers. The work begins with the study of the regional varietal registers.

In Amelia, in a suggestive hilly area, the Zanchi family has been producing authentic wines with a strong territorial identity since 1971.

Lugnano stands on a rocky hill, to the north and north-east it is protected by a chain of constantly green and easily accessible mountains.

Ours is a B&B made up of a renovated eighteenth-century stable and a large portion of a new building.

Family-run company dedicated for generations to the protection, preservation and care of the territory and of particular native varieties of olive trees.

On our farm, love for tradition and respect for the land meet in a philosophy that also reflects our lifestyles.