In recent weeks, the entire estate has been focused on harvesting olives from an exceptional season: over 7,000 olive trees which, thanks to a hot and dry summer, are laden with green, plump fruits. A plentiful harvest of healthy olives with increasing yields, making for a satisfying collection that will conclude on December 8. THE […]
Fattoria
Festa della Zucca 2024
The First Edition of the Festa della Zucca On Sunday 27 October 2024, amid bright sunshine and the enthusiasm of the participants, the first edition of the Pumpkin Festival was held at the Fattoria di Vignamaggio, an event that brought joy to young and old alike. The little ones took part in the art of carving, […]
Scent of Must: The 2024 Harvest
Each year, as autumn arrives, the Tuscan countryside transforms into a spectacle of colors, scents, and traditions. For us here at Vignamaggio, this can only mean one thing: it’s harvest time! And this year, the 2024 harvest brings a special excitement with it. In recent years, climate conditions have often pushed us to harvest the […]
August Harvest in the Gardens
The August Harvest in a Tuscan Garden: A Burst of Colors and Flavors August is a special month for our gardens: it’s the time when nature, kissed by the summer sun, offers its most generous and flavorful fruits. The August harvest is a celebration of the land and the hard work done in the previous […]
Il vigneto terrazzato
Until the 1960s, Tuscan farms were managed by sharecroppers. Where there were slopes, dry stone walls were built, which made even the steepest plots cultivable. With the advent of mechanisation of farming techniques and the ‘industrial’ conversion of viticulture, the rows of vines were built according to the ‘rittochino’ arrangement, which were easier to cultivate […]
Grandi Pascoli
The Grandi Pascoli covers 65 hectares of woodland between Vitigliano and Il Prato di Vignamaggio. It is a remarkable tapestry of diverse environments, including oak forests with holm oaks, turkey oaks, and regular oaks. Streams peacefully flow through the region, bordered by small wetland areas with alders and hellebore flowers, along with picturesque clearings. These […]
September abundance
The end of summer is a time of abundance, of fruit and fragrances that permeate every corner of the farm. While the gardeners are busy pruning shrubs and repotting citrus trees, the farm’s orchards are bursting with apples and figs, and the vineyard is a bustle of harvesters armed with red baskets and a lot […]
Vignamaggio’s sheep
Thirty-two female Apennine sheep have arrived on the Montagliari plain. They will help us in keeping the land neat and mown by grazing the grass. The Apennine breed was the most widespread in Emilia Romagna and Tuscany until the 1950s. Every year the flocks were moved from the Apennines to the Maremma, depending on the […]
The Artichokes Harvest
A sea of green, fragrant and bountiful: it is time to harvest our artichokes, starting with the large spring “mother” artichokes that we use for our artichoke paté. Between the end of April and throughout the month of May, the artichoke fields in the area, along the edges of gravel roads or leaning against dry […]
The Vignamaggio harvest
Every September is yet another milestone for Vignamaggio: this is the moment our team harvests the grapes that make our wines. Our experienced agronomist Francesco Naldi took us through the steps that lead up to the 2022 harvest. From winter 2021 to summer 2022 The 2021/2022 winter was characterised by very mild temperatures and not […]