Podere La Croce

Summer is over, and we are ready to dive in the marvellous Autumn vegetable garden, very alive and ready to give us day by day fruits and vegetables that best describe the taste of Autumn. At our restaurant Il Desco Bistrot, seasonal shopping are at the base of our menu, authentic culinary journeys, created thinking […]

Is there better news of the arrival of summer? Even though in our farm we still collect the last fruits of winter, broccoli and cauliflower, and in Tuscany the artichokes have not yet given up, our mind looks straight to the Spring.

  The dishes we serve in our vegetarian restaurant in Florence are prepared with the Mediterranean diet’s main ingredient: extra virgin olive oil.

On the menus of our restaurant in Florence, preserves and jams have an important role.

At our Podere La Croce, in the outskirts of Florence, summer is already in full bloom. At midday, the heat surrounds everything, the fields and woods are still and all we can hear is the chirrup of cicadas.

Observing the phases of the moon to organize the work in the vegetable garden: let us welcome the season of Selene!

Using nature to help get yourself back into shape after the Christmas holidays

The vegetable garden in winter: a small guide in which you will discover that nature never stops working, because every season has its own fruits!

From the end of October to the beginning of November is the ideal period for harvesting the olives in Tuscany,  on the hills near Florence, and for the production of  Tuscan organic extra-virgin olive oil on the farm Podere La Croce, in Reggello.

To talk about organic agriculture near Florence is to talk about Podere “La Croce” in the Tuscan hills, a place where organic agriculture and a love for the earth meet thanks to the passion of the Bargiacchi family.