Antica Tenuta Giovanna

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My family in 1932 bought a farm in Montalto di Castro in the province of Viterbo, the Tenuta Giovanna, a name that is already found in the oldest cadastral maps, which in 2000 is rightly become the Antica Tenuta Giovanna farm organic farm.

Since the years 30 many things has changed.

At the time, the breeding of Sopravissana sheep together with the cultivation of durum wheat were the main activities.

Over the years 70 of the last century there was the introduction of intensive cultivation made possible by the abundance of water provided by a river whose path runs sinuously along the entire company.

That was an almost pioneering era started by my father and that I only lived in the final part.

Already at the end of years 90 , however, it was understood that this was a model of development that was no longer sustainable neither for the environment nor for consumers because it involved an excessive use of chemical products.

It was then at the dawn of organic farming and with my father we decided with conviction that it was time to make a change and convert the company into organic.

The first years were difficult but with perseverance we managed to find the right measures.

We decided that the route to follow was not to repeat the crops that were grown in the conventional organic way but to rediscover old abandoned crops because they were not very productive but very healthy from a nutritional point of view.

Thus it was that the cultivation of Farro was reintroduced from time immemorial no longer cultivated in our area and I planted the first hectare of lavender (now there are four).

The Khorasan Wheat was an almost impossible challenge. In those years few knew or believed that a well-known wheat produced by an American multinational was just a fancy name and not the Khorasan wheat renamed for use and consumption by marketing policies.

Today, after having persevered in cultivation and above all in marketing, with this grain we offer consumers various pasta shapes as well as a very popular wholemeal flour for making pasta at home.

The line of gluten free products , such as millet, buckwheat, amaranth and flax, and the cultivation of goji are the latest news of a company that is always evolving thanks to the presence of my son Alessandro who has brought further life to the family trend of always look for new ways.

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