Hello all, we will be in Tuscany for a week in mid December. I would love some recommendations of small farms we can visit. We will have a car and dont mind taking a drive to a good one. Our home base will be Barberino Val D'elsa outside of Siena. I would love to visit some smaller farms that produces some amazing Pecorino and maybe some Tuscan cured meats.... We are up to drive to a few!
Thanks so so much!!!
I hope you have a great trip. We’ve been in Italy now for 3 weeks, including a week staying at an agriturismo in Umbria up until yesterday morning. They produce their own prosciutto, cured salami, and many varieties of sauces and ragú . They raise cattle, pigs, several varieties of fowl, and bunnies, too. They’ve got about 1,500 olive trees, which will be harvested next week for olive oil. A very hardworking family, and the farm’s been in the family for generations.
Anyway, they’re not Tuscan, although not super far from where you’ll be based. Maybe you’ll get lots of recommendations for actual Tuscan farms. Even if you do, my thought is that, perhaps, seeking out any Tuscan agritusmi might yield some further possibilities. Even if you’re not looking for a place to stay, some offer a place for a meal, and might provide tours, if you’re looking for that. Ours certainly had a provisions shop, complete with at least a dozen quarters of aged prosciutto and sausages hanging from the rafters, along with packages of more cured meats in a display cooler Countless jars of other goodies too, produced on site.
Hi Cyn what is the name of the place you are speaking of please?
Podere le Fornaci - Goat Cheese Farm
Greve
www.poderelefornaci.it
( 43.603291, 11.303460 )
Chianti Cashmere Goat Farm
Radda in Chianti
www.chianticashmere.com
Hours open farm hours between 4-7pm
Tenuta Vitereta
Arezzo (15 minutes south of Sienna)
Cheese & wine production, tasting & store
http://www.tenutavitereta.com/
Il Palagiaccio (mostly just a store)
Mugello An hour north of Florence near Mugello
Cheese & wine production, tasting & store
http://www.palagiaccio.us/
Fratelli Sanna - Caseificio Podere S.Anna
Sienna (15 minutes south of Sienna)
Cheese Production, tasting & store
http://www.fratellisanna.net/
43.260019, 11.356843
Cugusi
Montepulciano (10 minutes outside of Montepulciano)
Cheese Production, tasting, picnic & store
https://www.caseificiocugusi.it/
43.100915, 11.754622
WOW thank you!
Mike- wow, thank you so much! I am making note of all these places for my next trip.
aceleri, we stayed at the “Santa Caterina agriturismo,” which is in the general Monte Martano area. It’s really rural, although many wonderful hill towns are pretty close, but having a reliable GPS for navigation was extremely helpful. Spoleto is very nearby. So is Spello, and wonderful Bevagna. Maria and Gaetano run the place, with their friendly dogs. It’s amusing, but extremely close is the “community” of Milano, not the huge city that goes by the same name, (Milano = Milan, in English) but just a grouping of maybe 6 houses. We had dinner there every night, for €25 apiece, rather than trying to go to some restaurant a few miles away (or maybe lots of miles) and trying to find our way back in the dark - and dealing with having a glass of wine or more with dinner. The Montefalco wine region is immediately adjacent, with tastings in nearby towns, and on-site at wineries. We didn’t stop, but the vineyards were surrounding us.
