Merkki: Fastuchera Azienda Agricola

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The Fastuchera is a small Sicilian organic company active in the territory of Cammarata and San Giovanni Gemini, in the province of Agrigento.
The company mainly produces Sicilian ancient grains (tumminia, russulidda and Majorca) from which it takes fine milled flour in stone and handmade pasta.
Home to a "conservation area of ​​native ancient fruits" the Fastuchera is a young company that is looking to invest their energies in the direction of sustainable agriculture that respects the environment and biodiversity.
The idea behind our work is the desire to contribute to the spread of a high quality healthy food that is both nurturing and sensory pleasure for people, in the belief that the campaign must now be not only a place of production but also a permanent research laboratory and sociability.

The tumminia, is a Sicilian native varieties of wheat among the oldest in Italy. His semen tells the long story of the grain in the Island, the plow time and sickle, a thousand-year selection made by generations of farmers.
Since the sixties, the cultivation of this variety of ancient grain became anachronistic because of low production yields. In those years the tumminia danger of disappearing forever. Today, decades later, the Fastuchera in the person of Nicholas, a young Sicilian farmer, has recovered and autoriprodotto the seed with the intent to obtain a fine flour in the past was particularly appreciated and sought after by the Sicilian pasta makers.
To do so the wheat is grown in the traditional way, without using chemical fertilizers and herbicides. A product very suitable for bread-making with which it is made the famous black bread of Castelvetrano, who has had the pleasure of tasting it will never forget the smell and flavor of the bread. In this case the flour is wholemeal since it is only removed the bran therefore the taste is more delicate. You can make excellent pizzas, I insegerò as with vrie recipes that will post. Impress your guests.