Una domenica in campagna

A nice initiative in our neighboorhood "Una domenica in campagna" at the Cantina La Maranzana.


Every sunday in november you can enjoy a free degustation of their wines and for those who want there's the possibility to eat a lunch with truffles in one of the agriturismo's in the neighboorhood.


There are a lot of events around wine in our region and we haven't seen a lot of tourists visiting them yet.

Our Lavender Farm

Since last week we can call ourselves an organic Lavender Farm, 25 000 plants we have now !
First we had to plant the rows of lavender with a tractor, now we're controlling every plant and putting in the ones we have forgotten + some extra.

I look forward to see them grow in the spring, our own lavenderfields !

Twitter and Facebook

Now summer is over and guests are gone, I take the time to familiarize myself with new things, like twitter. Joined today and not sure if it's something interesting or just a waste of time. We'll see, I'm a bit of a computernerd so love to find new internet-things to do.
If you want to follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/AgriVerdita

We also have a group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=agriturismo+verdita&init=quick#/group.php?gid=66232584198&ref=search&sid=1347408835.1456215010..1
Thanks to Facebook I have more contact with people in Belgium (where I come from) than when I lived there. Strange, isn't it?

Something completely different: tomorrow we start planting our lavender, then we will really be a lavenderfarm. Very excited about this !

Mushrooms

At the moment there's an obsession for mushroom-hunting here in the village. The woods are ful of the most delicious porcini and other mushrooms that I don't know the name of, but they sure taste good !

Of course we have done our part of searching. The first times we walked miles and miles without seeing or recognising anything. After a while I think the people here got a little tired of seeing us like this and one day we got visit from someone who wanted to show me which mushrooms are edible. And since then I fill my basket with the most delicious species.

Of course after the walk I have to prepare them. This means we eate a lot of them during the last days and I have a full freezer.

Really love this ! Walking around, collecting food and preparing the most wonderful dishes with it.