Organic
Certified by CQ
No chemical treatments; conversion to organic completed in 2018.
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About us
One family, 153 hectares and a way of working that hasn’t changed
Società Agricola Felice Agricoltura S.S. farms between Bagnolo and Montemurlo, on the outskirts of Prato. Olive groves, heritage wheat, pulses, hemp, woodland and animals that roam free. We grow, process and sell everything ourselves: there is no step in between the field and your table.
What the land is made of
One hundred and fifty-three hectares between Bagnolo and Montemurlo. Not all of it is cultivated, and not all of it is olive trees.
50 hectares
olive groves
18,000 trees
20 hectares
arable land
heritage wheat, pulses, fodder
80 hectares
woodland
3 hectares
open-air hen runs
1,000 free-roaming hens in 4 henhouses
Our method
The shortest supply chain
From the field to the stall
We grow, process and sell everything ourselves: no step in between.
153 hectares
Between Bagnolo and Montemurlo
Olive groves, wheat, pulses, woodland and free-roaming animals.
What organic means to us
No synthetic chemical treatments, crop rotations that restore the soil, and animals that keep the undergrowth of the olive groves clear in place of the brushcutter. Conversion was completed in 2018 and since then we have been inspected and certified by CQ, a control body authorised by the ministry, under the code IT BIO 014 - 12788.
It is a method that takes more work and yields less per hectare. You can recognise it in the colour of the egg yolks and in the bitterness of freshly pressed oil.
The eggs are the exception: the hens live free, but the production is not certified organic and we do not sell it as such.
Social farming
In the countryside there is work you learn by doing, and groups have come to the farm through work-inclusion projects: they picked olives with us, followed the milling and learned a trade done with the hands. The photograph at the top of this page shows one of those groups.
It is an experience we would repeat. If you represent an organisation, a cooperative or a service looking for a farm willing to host, write to us: let’s talk about it.