Riserva Naturale Orientata Onferno

Sustainable agriculture

In a valley with a protected morphology, characterized by steep sandstone faces and smooth clay hills at the same time, over the centuries a family-run agricultural model based on small parcels of land and isolated housing units developed. Over the years this situation led our farmers to develop a productive knowledge of the surrounding environment which could also safeguard it. Some activities such as the choice of local breeds suitable to the valley's difficult conditions, the maintenance of the rural roads, of the outlet rills and of the hedges to hold the unstable slopes are as necessary as the sowing and the harvest for the survival of our agricultural reality.