Sicily Food - Organic Farm Tour

Our wonderful Landlord (Host) Tommaso called and texted (called SMS in Italia) us late one night offering to meet up with his good friend early in the morning the next day.  Sarah had a little trouble with this and almost gave up with her morning smartie pants on... a couple of times.  In her defence... Italians are all morning people it seems...

Here is the name of the wonderful Consulting Agronomist who gave us a tour of his organic family farm...What a great experience this was... even Sarah admitted it was worth getting up early for ;-)

Tommaso on the left and Gaspare on the right - Gaspare is pruning the quince to give me flowers. 

The quince flowers

Gaspare collecting various citrus, including mandarin, and orange.

Gaspare describing his fields - I think they have been in the family a while...

Bella! 

Tommaso is giving me the Italian name for cauliflower. 

Artichoke - a purple variety which we found particularly lovely

A good time was had by all!

Borrage growing wile in the field.

Citrus orchard

Gaspare explaining that this particular lemon has a large savory pith, the lemon peel is removed then the remainder is eaten often with salt and olive oil. 

The lemon being prepared for consumption

Here! Try it!

The hills around Gaspare's place are beautiful, and the entire area is quite windy often with sirocco winds so it makes sense to make power. 

More fields of verdura

Guard dog in waiting. His dad is a HUGE mastiff, his mom is a rottweiler. This pup has sad Labrador eyes. I would never try to go to Gaspare's farm without Gaspare!