In the farm organic produce Sant'Egle with love and passion all of our products respecting the natural cycle of nature, without forcing it and change through agriculture synergistic, following the calendar biodinamic.
In addition to fresh produce available every week, we stewed fruit and vegetables, raw unfiltered beers, cheese, cookies with stevia, extra virgin olive oil, wine, saffron, spirulina, stevia rebA, essences, herbs, natural cosmetics 100% not tested on animals, herbs and the scent of the Maremma, for seasoning your food.
We are a organic certified (Suolo e Salute), operator number 31152
n Tuscany, a Sant'Egle , in the municipality of Sorano in the province of Grosseto, the first since 2010 's farmhouse that has believed and embraced the synergistic organic farming , cultivate the art of letting her do the earth. The synergistic agriculture is a method of growing invented in the 30s by Masanobu Fukuoka, a microbiologist and Japanese farmer . The method has been reworked for our western climate ,
dall'agricoltrice Spanish Emilia Hazelip .
What it is .
Watch a forest and devotes 30 ' walking through the vegetation . You'll notice that the soil is rich in plants. The flora is born where it grows best , in no particular order , the ground is covered with leaves and is soft , the earth is full of all the substances that want any flower or plant and soil never sees direct sunlight .
The synergistic agriculture is based on the principle that , while the earth makes plants grow , plants create fertile soil through its " root exudates " ( organic residues ), their chemical activity , microorganisms , bacteria , fungi and earthworms .
Simply observing what nature already does well enough alone, in choosing to make a synergistic garden , you will have to meet a few simple rules , which , not surprisingly , the vegetation does naturally .
The land , if compacted by the passage of tractors, from the sun and rain, the human being must be plowed and made as fine as possible . This is done only once in the whole life of the garden.
With the crumbled earth are built pallets , mounds of earth about 50 cm high , divided among themselves by trenches about 60 cm .
The benches are an ingenious solution to not bend your back at ground level during its cultivation , have the opportunity for disabled people to be farmers , and also cultivated space triples , 3 sides having the same surface.
Pallet is placed on the system of drip irrigation and covered with a generous layer of straw mulch that prevents the growth of weeds, provides shelter to the ground from the direct rays of the sun and keeps the right humidity of the soil, without a ' unitile and impoverishing evaporation and cracking of the earth.
Now the pallets are ready to accommodate vegetables, legumes, seeds and flowers.
The decision of what and how to plant in the garden is not causal but synergistic signed by experts who have compiled a intercropping plants and flowers.
For example, tomatoes and free from pests thrive if alternated with parsley , celery and surrounded by flower Marigold .
Spinach love to grow closer to potatoes, for nitrogen releasing of course , the salad is protected from pests if it grows near leeks, garlic and onions, and so on.
All grow in an apparently causal , not in line as seen in the intensive cultivation , the flowers will bloom among the vegetables , insects attracted to both color and fragrance pollinate all the plants that need it . Following the natural food chain , small reptiles and amphibians , attracted by the water, will be featured in the garden and crucial for biological pest lot . The products obtained by this practice have a different quality , a different flavor , a different energy and a greater resistance to pathogens .
When the time of harvest, all the gifts of the earth will be cleaned directly in the garden , leaving the decomposing organic residues on the pallet that will create nourishment for the new crop . The earth is not compacted , will always remain soft , as in the forest, because no one has reason to ' walk about above ' , everything is within arm's reach ! Through this way of cultivating is returned to the earth, in terms of energy , more than you take , promoting the mechanisms of self fertility of the soil and therefore do not need to move every year on the ground , fertilize it with poison and pesticides.
We are waiting for a visit and to enjoy the vegetables of organic synergy.
WE ARE FARMERS GUARDIAN
A farmer guardian is the one who protects the seeds, and donated each year to Tuscany, which in turn gives them to those who want to continue to cultivate ancient and indigenous seeds.
One way to presevare the ancient traditions and do not give way to GMOs or genetically modified seeds.
