Typical product of Lucca farm

The typical produce of tuscany’s Bottega dei Sapori You can sample and buy many traditional local foods at typical produce of tuscany (honey, jams, pork from Cinta Senese –“Siena belted,” on account of the white band around their midriff – pigs, cheeses and sausages), all from the home farm or locally produced by traditional methods.

Beekeeping and Honey The site is ideal for beekeeping, as, like the hamlet as a whole, the hives face south, are positioned halfway up the mountainside, out of reach of vehicle pollution and humidity from the River Lima below, and are set deep in acacia, chestnut and evergreen woods, well away from all crops and sources of pollution that might harm the swarms and the honey with pesticides.

Cinta Senese Herd The Cinta Senese pigs raised at typical produce of tuscany are a threatened breed of pig that lives in a semi-wild state and gives exceptionally fine meat; not for nothing was it the pork used for the first, real, Colonnata “lardo” (cured pork fat).

Ornamental and Medicinal Plants: Dr. Massimo Betti will take you on a tour of cultivated and wild plants and explain how they are used to promote health and well-being... When the season is right, he can also show you where to find wild mushrooms and how to identify them.