It all came from an idea by Maria Rosa Bianco:…

“I’ve been working for more than 30 years and by coincidence I’ve been changing job every 10 years. My first job was in navigation, the second in commerce, then I had an ironmonger’s shop, and now I’ve got the farm house. Oddly I always lose interest after 10 years I do the same job and then starting-up again gives me a great satisfaction.
We bought the farm seven years ago, a four hectares land with a half decaying house; we searched for a big room like an ironmonger’s store. We rented the land and it was sown with corn.
One day I read something about old fruits and I had a sudden attraction.

I wanted to plant old fruits to get to know them. Everybody dissuaded me, then it became a challenge for me. I plunged in my research and when I found the nurseries that grew them I planted them, about 600.
In the house that served as ironmonger’s store I made the rooms for the hosts who, curious, come to see and taste the old fruits…"