La Capra e la Panca

The farm came into being with the aim of combining sustainable, ethical agriculture with love for the local area. Fifty or so goats and a few Scottish cows provide the milk for the fresh dairy produce on sale at the shop in via Matteotti in Lanzo, the main road that leads to the town centre. The milk is drawn every morning a few metres from the barn to ensure the quality and safety of processing methods that come into their own in the dairy, capturing the scents of the pastures in the Valli di Lanzo where the goats love to graze. The product range is vast, ranging from classic goat’s milk toma to toma aromatised with the likes of rhubarb and chilli, which warms the flavour of the cheese without covering it up. Then come caprini, goat’s cheeses produced fresh every day, soft Montebasso tomini, delicious goat’s gorgonzola, and toma aged a few months. We also recommend the farm’s excellent goat’s meat charcuterie and the array of fine Piedmontese craft food products on display on the shelves.

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