IL POGGIO WOODPECKER, TIPICITÀ IN VASETTO

You would have thought that a woodpecker (sì, the bird, just like Woody Woodpecker aka Woody Woodpecker cartoons) could disrupt the lives of an entire family?
This is what happened in the Irpinia Giselico-Russian family. Here's how it went.

About ten years ago, the green woodpecker in question was usually repeatedly caught the old pear tree mastantuono site in the town land Cesinali, which they had been purchased with the intention to realize a vineyard. Perciò, to limit the damage, the head of the family decided to practice fifty grafts of the original pear. The case (or fortune) He wanted that took root grafts all!
Ritrovatasi suddenly with a huge amount of fruit, mamma Fiorenza Giselico I wheeled out his passion for jams. At your service, not only pears above, but also many other typical products Irpinia.

Thus it was born the 'Azienda Agricola Il Poggio del Picchio, craft hotbed of jams, jams and jellies: from the love for the land, for its fruit, for the recovery of ancient tastes, for the protection of biodiversity.
The existing plants are gradually added other, and today the company boasts numerous types of local fruits, especially ancient varieties and "forget", including arbutus, azzeruoli, gelsi, Germanic medlar, canine rose, and even quince, annurche, zitelle e limoncelle. The method of cultivation is, neanche a dirlo, totally natural and free of synthetic chemical substances.

Corbezzoli

Azzeruolo

The plot unfolds around a charming farmhouse 1841, and it includes rows of grape strawberry, blackberry bushes and other berries, myrtle trees, in addition to olive trees, various fruit trees and vegetables of all kinds.

Olive

Rosa canina

To give a hand to the mother are the two daughters Francesca and Laura Russo, whose degrees in engineering and chemistry have come in handy in the management.

All products of Il Poggio del Picchio are of unprecedented kindness!

The transformation occurs in a property in the municipality of Aiello del Sabato.
modern machines allow you to ensure the preservation of the organoleptic characteristics of the fruit and cook without adding very little sugar (and nothing else!), giving the jam taste of fresh fruit as soon as harvest.
To give further value to a commodity already indisputable they contribute unusual combinations, sometimes even daring, con frutta secca, scorzette, spezie, aromatic and medicinal herbs.

Il risultato? Jams and jellies fantastic, in so many different flavors, in variants suitable for breakfast or to combine with cheese and meat. A most exquisite and most intriguing of the other, from jam More lavender to that of chocolate Eggplant, from red peppers to zucchini with pistachio, ginger and chilli.
Not absent recipes that contain tea matcha!

The only ingredient purchased from outside is the copper onion Montoro.

The jams are made with citrus fruit not treated from the basilica of St. Alphonsus Maria de 'Liguori in Pagani, procured through a unique barter: fruit in exchange for the product worked jars, that the monks give visitors.
It is thanks to this exchange that the three creative minds get treats like jam S. Egidio oranges with ginger and chilli, jam Tangerines with candied peel, jam S. Egidio Lemons and a spectacular ketchup orange!

The assortment of Il Poggio del Picchio also includes fruit juice, composed, tomato sauce and pate.

absolutely delicious products, packaged one by one by the loving hands of the three ladies with colorful bows and coprivasetti that bring joy already just looking at them.

Find these delicacies Supreme is simple: just order through the website.

We Neapolitans also have the good fortune to be able to do at various tastings Cheese Bar of Sagra, where good Salvatore Lista never fails to match jams and marmalades Poggio del Picchio its cold cuts and cheeses; the products are obviously purchased in the shop.

Sometimes happiness is sealed in a glass jar 🙂

Azienda Agricola Il Poggio del Picchio
Contrada Salice, 11 - Aiello del Sabato, Avellino
such. 0825/667238
www.ilpoggiodelpicchio.com