Years 2 | n. 14 | 10 March 2010 | Director LUIGI CARICATO
Grow Culture > Rural people

Francesca Petrini: the farming is action and innovation

From a farm that boost an innovative olive oil, now sold in pharmacies, a young business woman who hates bureaucrats and the sleepy attitude of agriculture

01 March 2010 TN 3 Year 2

Antonella Pinna: from law study to olive growing

The rural world is certainly “contradictory” as the personal history of this olive oil entrepreneurs who born near the wonderful sea of Sardinia

01 February 2010 TN 2 Year 2

Andrea Bertazzi and the respect for countryside

This month we present a grapevine and olive farmer who work in North of Italy, owner of Il Roccolo estate at Polpenazze del Garda

07 December 2009 TN 11 Year 1

Armando Manni, the artist with a passion for olive

Movie director and producer of oil, he divides his time between the olive trees at Amiata and the cities of Rome and New York, where he lives. He is the author of the cult movie Elvjs & Merilijn

02 November 2009 TN 10 Year 7

Donatella Cinelli Colombini, art historian and wine woman

She founded the wine tourism association (Movimento del turismo del vino) and invented the “open wine cellars” event. Her passion for the Bacchus drink is always astonishing

05 October 2009 TN 9 Year 1

Laura Turri, the "queen" of extra virgin olive oil on Garda lake

A keyword for the future of farming? Environmental and economical sustainability at both local and global levels, ensuring the production of healthy, top-quality food

07 September 2009 TN 8 Year 1

Keith Richmond, from United Kingdom to Tuscany

A long trip. Born in UK, educated in the USA. Now he is a farmer who produces an high-quality extra virgin olive oil "against the elements, rising costs and bureaucracy"

06 July 2009 TN 6 Year 1

Duccio Corsini, a noble farmer

Graduated in Modern History at Milan he choosed a vineyard project and consider farming "today more than ever in the last 40 years is: fundamental"

01 June 2009 TN 5 Year 1

A business man and farmer: Enrico Rana

A definition of farming? Passion and devotion. An adjective for defining the world of farming? Fascinating and concrete

04 May 2009 TN 4 Year 1

A marketing consultant become a winemaker: Ampelio Bucci

The passion for agriculture came later but his family owned a large estate in Marche region for centuries. His model Man? Carlo Petrini

06 April 2009 TN 3 Year 1

Charlotte Horton, champion of the values and tastes of the earth

An English on the slopes of Monte Amiata, Tuscany, in the Castle of Potentino. So much passion and talent to produce excellent olive oils and wines

02 March 2009 TN 2 Year 1

Felice Modica: modernization without perversion

From press to agricolture. The intellectual peasant produces wines and olive oil in Sicily, where Europe borders Africa whilst retaining its deep-rooted european cultural traditions

02 February 2009 TN 1 Year 1