Vegan and vegetarian

For those who have decided to follow a particular vegetarian or vegan diet, here with us, you will be spoiled for choice.

Our territory is rich in fruit and vegetables, as well as the renowned vineyards: in Val d'Orcia and Valdichiana, you can find crops of wheat, olive legumes and fruit, also many farms are converting to organic and biodynamic agriculture.

Agriculture is an important job and business opportunity for young people who often return to work on their grandfather's old farm, perhaps after graduating.

Being a farmer no longer represents a low social status, which imprisoned minds and bodies, from generation to generation, as it was up to seventy years ago, today is a free and reasoned choice.

You can find typical seasonal local products directly in the grocery and fruit and vegetable shops within the country, or in small supermarkets or at the weekly market

Here are some examples of local entrepreneurship

Elena and Nazzareno

at the market every Thursday

From the beautiful and very fertile lands of Lake Bolsena, for more than twenty years, they have been selling their products here too.

If in the other stalls, you can find everything, in any season, in theirs, no!

In spring, in fact, there are artichokes and asparagus, new onions and salad, in summer, beautiful ripe and juicy tomatoes, basil and then cucumbers, aubergines, courgettes, in autumn, cabbage, spinach, potatoes, chestnuts and walnuts, grapes, in winter chickpeas, beans, kohlrabi and red cabbage, radicchio, apples.

With them it turned out that seasonality, which equates to variety. For their products, no synthetic fertilizers are used, not even of animal origin, but honey and water or pomegranate extract and water. The variety also serves as a defense against plant or root diseases.

Without wanting to demonize industrial and extensive agriculture, (which in recent decades has fed millions of people at low prices), Elena and Nazzareno are the symbol of the new Italian business class, that

who has the courage to think for themselves, not to conform or mimic, that does not only look at the portfolio and the earnings, the one that still believes and invests in the future.