AgryCult

Oh yes, in Italy we have extraordinary food.
In the past we had great fun with Francesco to taste and make our guests taste them, especially if foreigners (Dutch in this case). And they showed us all their … Italian passion.
We hope to repeat soon similar experiences, both live and online (when they’ll find a way to teleport food)
And, during the wait for this science fiction invention, you can take advantage of our tasting of 18 and 19 September in Porto Recanati,  ateBookCamp of our friend Antonio Tombolini.

Precisely.

The search for truffles is a hobby which evokes days immersed in nature and the magic of the forest. It brings back memories of those special moments of tranquillity and brings back memories of moments of joy that one enjoys intensely when they find this precious object.

The search for truffles is the story of man and his dog. In fact, when you have a dog and then you train him to look for truffles, between man and dog a very strong bond is established. This bond is strong like the …

The main objective of Agrycult is to build a net of small agricultural businesses that are not only set up on line but also set up face to face, building our small net creates a net of products which is distributed and sold between farmers. (Does this make sense to you? Have I understood the main idea of the sentence?)

We simply want to return to discovering products from the earth, those real products “We believe that rediscovering products from the earth is the most revolutionary experience that can happen to …

pics from last year’s edition

Also this year (June 4,5,6) I’ll go to the Smaak van Italie, the most important exhibition dedicated to Italy in Holland, hosted by the friends of ATM.

As it was in 2009, Molise contribute to the success of the fair.
With some important news.
This year, I will bring the welcome message from the Termoli AAST (Local Tourism Agency) , and its tourism project (focused on cycling routes), which will be very interesting for the northern European market (Dutch people use the bicycle as we use the car!)
And …

I’d like to share with you this post (and video) found on my Twitter network.
At a certain point, a farmer says ‘we want back our right to keep our seed’. Because the big Ag don’t allow them to do it!
How SCARY!
In Italy, farmers can still keep their seeds.
But for how long?
Herebelow, the original post:
There are 2 million farmers and 300 million consumers in the US. Standing in between are a handful of companies who control how food gets from one side to the other.
In 2010, the USDA and Dept of …

Il McAsiago
Yesterday I wrote about McItaly, a new Mcdonald’s roll that according to advertising propaganda could benefit everyday Italian folk(axiom no.2 remember?)
Good, but I have a few questions that I want to try (with you) to get answered. Who are these everyday folk that Zaia and Mcdonald’s are talking about? Who will exactly benefit from this operation? An indication that everyday folk of Mcdonald’s aren’t those who we have in mind which are us and you. These are the same words of the Minister. Here is the statement of the …

Fortunately it doesn’t happen often to be able use this tool with its spikey iron wheels but this is the right time of year. Our land, the Baraggia is harsh and the weather rains heavily. There isn’t any escape and in rice fields with the rubber you can’t get around easily. In this way using this tool is an extreme solution but the only possibilty at this moment, it requires a lot more time and a lot of patience.

This morning in Paris at the head office of Microsoft France Agrycult.com presented itself to the prestigious public!
Our idea to cultivate the agricultural part of the net was one of the 20 ideal finalists of Miniseedcamp of Paris.
We had 5 minutes,five to explain where Argycult wants to arrive and how.
We did it by talking about the sound of cheese.
We explained how the irritating sound of the large copper pot battered by a large stick becomes a solid sound, full of
contents of an excellent contents
And here is where Argrycult …

Image by Minouto via Flickr

In the last few days I have learnt with a pinch of stupor that a Friulian agriculturist claims the right of freedon to sow asking to be free to cultivate OGM cereals.
During this time we have assisted in a lot of initiatives and theories pro OGM. Often superficial because there is too much speculation over the reality of the fields that are often more complex than most people believe. In the countryside there is such a variability and unpredictable number of events that one can not …

Two weeks ago I went to Paris to participate to the Seedcamp event, arguably the most authoritative and networked micro seed fund programme to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in Europe.
Agrycult was the first Italian team (together with the awesome teams of VisualSport and Mobnotes, also present in Paris) to be selected for the Seedcamp EVER (since 2007, Seedcamp reviews hundreds if not thousands of applications each year).
Of course we were proud of it, but what about the event? Was it worth attending it?
To explain my impression about it without …

The lady in the photo is the face of La Basia. She is my mother Elena.
Originally from a Milanese family, a city where she has lived in total a week. She graduadated in agriculture a few years ago.
From there two stories: The first half is the story of a family that grows and grows: five children ( two girls and three boys), always with her husband Antonio. The second half of the story that is connected to the hills of Garda where they have started to produce their wine with the passion …