Cascina Rubina

The Gariglio brothers, both agronomists, manage their family’s farm in the countryside round Poirino, where they aim to have the lowest possible impact on the environment. They use every agronomic practice available to ensure healthy crops, promote the use of natural biostimulants, and reduce conventional plant protection products to a bare minimum. They have also introduced dogs to protect their flock of Savoiarda sheep, which serve as “natural herbicides” but are often attacked by wolves.

The Gariglios are members of two consortia – the Santena asparagus and the Carmagnola pepper – and they also grow local fruit and vegetables such as green beans, beefsteak tomatoes, aubergines, fennel, cabbage, pumpkin, melons and water melons.

Always on sale at the farm shop are the fresh eggs of their fee-range hens, and honey from the hives scattered among the crops.

The farm’s products are also to be found at a stall at Frazione Sant’Anna on the outskirts of Chieri, and at the afternoon markets of the Campagna Amica della Provincia di Torino circuit. Since 2020, a functional home delivery service has been available on the Cascina Rubina app.

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