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By 0Agriturismo, Swimming pool

If you are looking to spend some time in unspoilt Tuscany, whilst enjoying sightseeing many of the hilltop villages in the area or visiting the museums and many of the open air architectural sites then it would be great if you would consider using Tenuta Le Mandorlaie as your base. We work hard to make sure our organic farm that produces extra virgin olive oil and our own range of reserve organic wine is ready for you, our guests. We are a small but high quality agriturismo and offer the chance to stay in your own cottage surrounded by your own garden with trees, lavender, roses and more. When you

By 0Projects

At Tenuta Le Mandorlaie we run a project worklist that we update and monitor, we have to as there are many projects that are fast and fun, some that need attention daily in order to move forward and some that will not be able to be completed until we have the correct approval from our commune planning offices. All in all, we are running an organic farm, and earn our revenues from the sale of the products we create, right now that is organic extra virgin olive oil and wine. This means that time spent on projects that are for the enhancement of the agriturismo are completed, worked on

By 0Tenuta Le Mandorlaie, The Kitchen Garden

I enjoy my kitchen garden, its true that Marthese takes care of it, but seeing what she wants to grow, her planning and helping move the seedlings, install the drip irrigation system and then weeding, means I do get to spend some time there. The vegetables we grow are seasonal, we grow what can be grown, we move our food intake along with the seasons, in summer lots of vegetables grow, and from this we take the opportunity to preserve as many as we can in different ways, in brine, as chutney, in olive oil. This gives us vegetables from the summer in winter, which we appreciate greatly. As the

By 0More Information

With the changing weather conditions due to global warming, we see that the seasons are changing and can be more erratic than before, it used to be weather had its own calendar known well and used by farmers worldwide, now however it is more different. Our vines and trees all need water in the right quantity at the right time, and from the time of rain forward they need access to water stored in the ground, so how do we help them have the water that they need up until the summer months and maybe beyond? Our Soil, storing water Our soil drains well which the vines like, what is not

By 1Tenuta Le Mandorlaie

Lots of work with vines is very labour intensive, from pruning, clearing the wires of old cut vine shoots from last season, aerating the soil and adding cover crops to get nitrogen into the soil, fertilising when needed before the grapes start budding. At the moment the task in hand for Marthese and I is that the vines leaf cover is starting to get in the way of the tractors working area, as well as stopping any organic treatment used getting to the grapes, this means the start of  tying back of the vines. To do this, we walk the vines and position the grapes vine shoots into the wires