Wandering over the Agri Umbra agricultural tradeshow last year we spotted a packet of 'peanut seeds' from the renowned Franchi seed company. Grow peanuts in your backyard? Well, why not. Not a lot of people know but there...
Hunting season has begun and not only for wildboar (actually the wild boar hunting starts this Saturday). Mushroom hunters can be seen all over the country site. Someone from a nearby village always parks his car near us...
Art in Umbertide? Sure why not! This art work was easily accesible as you can find it in a field. The installation consists of bales of plastic junk laid out in a field. So instead of the hay bales, something you normally aspect to...
We have been blessed by the weathergods lately. Not to hot, some rain now and then but still weather to walk around in shirt and shorts. I'm a 'septembermember'. Warm enough to linger in the sun, cool enough to get some gardenwork done without having to jump in a cold...
No, sorry no recipe. It is the time of the year that the majority of the grapes have become sweet enough to be called ripe. So in the morning you stroll over to your vineyard, eye a nice bunch or two, snip them of and dive back into your home to let them join the...
This might come as new to you but Italian dogs eat pasta and very skilfully! We have three dogs and all managed to eat the spaghetti like pro's and con gusto. Dogs love pasta! Not sure if they learned it or whether the dogs are just naturals, I'd say the latter.
Earlier this year a friend gave us some, what I thought of as 'canes' with a few tiny springily roots on them. Figs, hazelnuts the lot he said. Now I know that you can make big trees out of almost nothing but certainly in the Umbrian climate one would like to have...
I was looking for a street called Via 5 giorni di Napoli. Arrived at the exact place where the street should be I only saw Via 4 giorni di Napoli. Turned out they made a mistake... the wrong street name plate has been there many years already.
Last sunday my colleague, me and some friends and family went to have lunch at a cheesefarm for which we have been renting out apartments for years. Great place, great people and great food! We started with antipasti most of it their own products: salad, capocollo,...
Are you in Umbria at the moment or visiting in the future and looking for something to do? Head over to http://www.todoinumbria.com for inspiration. A fine selection of events has been categorized by date and location. Also a neat overview of markets and sagras. Site...
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