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Farmhouse: Activities
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In our Farmhouse you can do a lot of things: relax, rest, enjoy the landscape, paint, read, make photos… or you can attend the weekly activities we organize. Maybe you expect something unusual from your holiday here, like having experience related to our territory, our tradition and local culture. So we have thought letting you try our best specialisms! We hope to leave you something unique and authentic you can keep into your best memories’ book.
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GARDEN STROLLS
Daniela will show you through her magnificent garden and dazzling rose-garden (more than 170 different species of roses); you can pepper her with questions and she'll be happy to respond with precious gardening tips galore.
THE OLD FARMHOUSE
Granny Lorena will take you to see the vegetable garden and feed the animals! You can pick your own fresh vegetables and watch the rabbits and chickens …. Who knows, the hens might have just laid a fresh egg at this very moment!!
HAND MADE PASTA’S COURSE
You are all invited to improve the “sophisticate art” of making pici - our typical hand made pasta – or tagliatelle, ravioli, or what we would like to try at the moment.
You will learn to prepare the dough, to knead it and to create different shapes that in a few minutes of cooking will became a delicious dish. Usually then we prepare an easy gravy and we eat all together!
TENNIS LESSONS
Our instructor will be happy to spend some fun sports time with you in a lovely sports center set right in the heart of the Chianti hills, in the nearby village of Quercegrossa. No racquet? No problem: we'll lend you ours. Ready, play!
VISIT TO THE CHEESE FACTORY
If you'd like, we can arrange a visit to the cheese factory that's just a stone's throw from where we are. Sara and Franco will be glad to introduce you to the sights and smells of their work: you can see the milking and watch them make cheese and ricotta cheese! You'll taste their products and be impressed with their rustic kindness.
TUESDAY TOUR
Every Tuesday afternoon we offer you, free of cost, a guide who will show you Siena with its narrow lanes and its art. You'll breathe that unforgettable atmosphere with its taste of history and tradition - a tradition so strongly rooted as to make Siena an absolutely unique city. Don't miss it!
TRUFFLE HUNTING
With the precious collaboration of Mauro and Rino we go to the nearest woods, in secret places, and we unleash our dogs that are launched in an exciting truffle hunting. Isn’t easy to find truffles, but the experience is really electrifying!
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HOT-AIR BALLOON FLIGHT
You have to make a reservation very early but it’s really a fantastic experience. You have to wake up very early in the morning and help Massimiliano in assembling the basket and in taking off the balloon right from our Farmhouse!
Time: The flight is about 50 minutes long and we decide together the day.
We suggest: For the ones who wants to try an original experience and fly over the one of the most splendid valleys of the world… a different point of view for observe the Chianti’s landscape!
VINTAGE (Seasonal – September/October)
For participate at our vintage you must be very lucky because you must be on holiday in autumn and in the right period: the vintage is only few days long and we never know exactly the starting day. Take part of this experience is really funny: we harvest grapes, we chat, we joke and we laugh a lot. Usually all our family participate! If you would like to help us one morning we can offer you the “agricultural lunch” and we assure you an unforgettable afternoon nap…
OLIVE HARVESTING (Seasonal – October/November/December)
We need your help! You are never enough, the olives are so much and they are all hand-harvested… sometimes the olive trees seem never finishing. But it isn’t only an hard work. It’s wonderful think that in a few days these olives will be up to a dish of pasta or a hot bruschetta (toasted Tuscan bread)…
Note: The olive pickers are compensated by oil not by money… it’s our tradition. Each 100 kg of olive harvested you can earn 7 kg of oil!
We suggest: If you have arms for work and heart for feel it’s an exciting effort.
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