Sunday, 19^th February 2017, h. 10,00- Masseria “Il Frantoio”

A study day organized to recognize the wild herbs around the thousand-year-old olive groves managed with biological methods and registered according to the L.R 14/2007 about the safeguard of the landscape of the secular olive trees of Apulia.

The Park of Costal Dunes and Masseria “Il frantoio” organize an excursion through the fields of the thousand-year-old olive groves of the Masseria “il Frantoio”, managed with biological methods in order to discover the varieties of wild herbs which nature can give us. The event, now at the 9^th edition, has been organized in collaboration with the center of the environmental education “Il Ginepro”, the association “Passo di Terra” and the publishing house “Stilo”.

Learn to know the spontaneous edible flora and the best ways to use it.

Stories, curiosities, nutritional properties and popular traditions of the main wild edible plants will be told by experts and passionate connoisseurs of wild herbs like Abele Lomascolo and the agronomist Felice Suma, the author of the Park’s notebook “La Bontà delle Malerbe” published by the “Stilo publishing house”. At the end of the walk it will be possible to have lunch at the same Farm with a menu based on biological products, wild herbs and flowers, a good Apulian wine and homemade liquors.

“Il Frantoio” is a Park Brand farm certificated with the European Charter for the sustainable Tourism  CETS.

The excursion for the acknowledgement of the wild herbs is free. The reservation is necessary.

For information and reservations tel. 0831330276 or prenota@masseriailfrantoio.it