Organic fruit & vegetables in Tuscany
The vegetable garden is right next to the Agriturismo Podere Palazzone holiday home. It provides our restaurant with healthy, fresh organic vegetables. Here, too, we do not use chemical fertilisers. The first to ripen are the zucchini, followed by cucumbers, leeks, celery, chard, aubergines and peppers. In autumn we harvest beetroot and cardi. Furthermore, various types of lettuce are available throughout the season. A typical vegetable of Tuscany is the artichoke, whose nice blue flowers have the beauty of an ornamental plant. The same goes for the pretty flowers of capers, which we keep in pots. Self-caterers at our holiday home are welcome to pick organic vegetables from our garden. You can’t eat more healthy and more local.
Nothing beats Italian Tomatoes
Do you still remember the taste of genuine tomatoes, picked when they are really ripe, red, juicy, aromatic and with the typical smell of grass and wet earth? At our Agriturismo we grow different varieties of organic tomatoes. For example, the pomodoro rosso canestrino di Lucca for salads or a light caprese. Also, the pomodoro ciliegino pachino for a fresh pasta al sugo crudo. Instead, the pomodoro datterino is great for a healthy snack. Then, in August we cook our much coveted, absolutely natural Pomarola. Tomatoes, olive oil, basil, some onion and… a little secret from grandma. This sugo is made of pomodoro San Marzano and pomodoro Rio Grande. In addition, we prepare Peperoncino Pestos of different degrees of spiciness using different types of Mediterranean peppers. Try them to find our your personal peperoncino enjoyment limit.
Delicious organic fruit
At first, with the warmth of spring, the spectacular almond blossom begins, followed by the cherry and the apricot blossom. Our apricots are just gorgeous, juicy and particularly intense in flavour. We eat them straight from the tree or process them into apricot mousse and delicious jams. Twice a year, fig trees provide us with the most flavourful of all figs, the fico bianco. Irresistible when they picked at the perfect stage of ripeness and their flesh shines dark red. Not to mention when they are accompanied with medium-aged pecorini or prosciutto crudo Toscano. However, the best way to enjoy the fico bianco is eating it directly from the branch. Finally, autumn concludes the fruit season with lovely pomegranates.
Our garden is the nature of Tuscany
The vegetable garden extends far beyond the borders of Agriturismo Podere Palazzone. We know the corners where nature grows delicacies that only need to be picked up. On the one hand, there are the blackberries, on the other hand typical Mediterranean berries such as corbezzolo and mirto. We use them a lot to make jams and liqueurs. In autumn we pick mushrooms under old holm oaks, where mainly chanterelles sprout. In spring we go in search of the particularly tasty wild asparagus. They are fantastic just blanched, seasoned with a few drops of organic olive oil and served with crispy white bread. This is the kick-off to a new vegetable season in Tuscany.
Organic fruit & vegetables in Tuscany
Organic vegetables for self-harvest
The vegetable garden is right next to the Agriturismo Podere Palazzone holiday home. It provides our restaurant with healthy, fresh organic vegetables. Here, too, we do not use chemical fertilisers. The first to ripen are the zucchini, followed by cucumbers, leeks, celery, chard, aubergines and peppers. In autumn we harvest beetroot and cardi. Furthermore, various types of lettuce are available throughout the season. A typical vegetable of Tuscany is the artichoke, whose nice blue flowers have the beauty of an ornamental plant. The same goes for the pretty flowers of capers, which we keep in pots. Self-caterers at our holiday home are welcome to pick organic vegetables from our garden. You can’t eat more healthy and more local.
Nothing beats Italian tomatoes
Do you still remember the taste of genuine tomatoes, picked when they are really ripe, red, juicy, aromatic and with the typical smell of grass and wet earth? At our Agriturismo we grow different varieties of organic tomatoes. For example, the pomodoro rosso canestrino di Lucca for salads or a light caprese. Also, the pomodoro ciliegino pachino for a fresh pasta al sugo crudo. Instead, the pomodoro datterino is great for a healthy snack. Then, in August we cook our much coveted, absolutely natural Pomarola. Tomatoes, olive oil, basil, some onion and… a little secret from grandma. This sugo is made of pomodoro San Marzano and pomodoro Rio Grande. In addition, we prepare Peperoncino Pestos of different degrees of spiciness using different types of Mediterranean peppers. Try them to find our your personal peperoncino enjoyment limit.
Delicious organic fruit
At first, with the warmth of spring, the spectacular almond blossom begins, followed by the cherry and the apricot blossom. Our apricots are just gorgeous, juicy and particularly intense in flavour. We eat them straight from the tree or process them into apricot mousse and delicious jams. Twice a year, fig trees provide us with the most flavourful of all figs, the fico bianco. Irresistible when they picked at the perfect stage of ripeness and their flesh shines dark red. Not to mention when they are accompanied with medium-aged pecorini or prosciutto crudo Toscano. However, the best way to enjoy the fico bianco is eating it directly from the branch. Finally, autumn concludes the fruit season with lovely pomegranates.
Our garden is the nature of Tuscany
The vegetable garden extends far beyond the borders of Agriturismo Podere Palazzone. We know the corners where nature grows delicacies that only need to be picked up. On the one hand, there are the blackberries, on the other hand typical Mediterranean berries such as corbezzolo and mirto. We use them a lot to make jams and liqueurs. In autumn we pick mushrooms under old holm oaks, where mainly chanterelles sprout. In spring we go in search of the particularly tasty wild asparagus. They are fantastic just blanched, seasoned with a few drops of organic olive oil and served with crispy white bread. This is the kick-off to a new vegetable season in Tuscany.
