La Pulledraia del podere Montegrappa

l our farm is an integral part of the ancient possessions of the Lorraine Habsburg, now divided into several independent estates. Also after the unification of Italy, the Alberese company remained of property of the Lorraines, who had bought it in 1824 from Corsini principles. Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War i Lorraine, become enemies of Italy for being Austrian subjects, they sold the company to the duke Lante della Rovere, it is not known if with fictitious or real act, but the Italian Government, by decree of prefect of Grosseto of 17 March 1923, expropriated the estate of Alberese what good of a conquered country subject. The first of January 1924 Alberese was assigned to the management of the National Opera Combattenti (ONC) who completed the reclamation work and built about 100 farms giving them the names of the places of the battles of the World War I (Bainsizza, Montegrappa, Pasubio, Montesanto, Gorizia, Monte Asolone).

Our farmhouse, in Maremma, covers about 24 hectares, e we were the first in the Alberese area to start one organic production, in absolute respect of the rules and standards quality standards imposed by law. To date, not only we continue to scrupulously observe the rules and standards (also because we are the first consumers of our products), but there we continue to submit to the control proceeding of an institution accredited. This result came after eight years of conversion of conventional agriculture (based agriculture) on the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides chemical to be clear) to the biological one (from 1983 to 1991) carefully treating crop rotations.