Our farm is located in Barbaresco, in the Province of Cuneo, Region Piedmont (Northern Italy). The climate here is extremly favourable for the production of high quality wines like Barbaresco (and Barolo), Roero, Roero Arneis, Barbera and so on.
Our idea was quite new: instead of planting wineyards we decided to use this precious land to produce iris roots to be used for babies teething and for production of essential oil for perfumerie.
This is the entrance to our farm with all its products: the vineyards of Barbaresco wine (on the left), the hazelnuts trees (on the right) for the superb chocolate, and the blossoming Iris Germanica (picture April 2016)
The idea was acutally to use this rich and tastfull land also for producing the roots for iris.
So we started to use the little plot of land that still were not used, as in the picture below
Bottom: the farm
Nonetheless the need for an increasing production forced us to expand the places where we cultivate the iris, and from Barbaresco (in the so called "Langhe" region) we moved to the close "Roero" region, to use a plot of land specifically dedicated to the production of iris.
So we used a little plot of land of my grandmother, normally not cultivated
Then, after long discussions we found a new and bigger plot in the Govone village.
It was a woodland - even though it was before a vineyards - and we decided to clean it up and prepare for the plantation of the first big plot of iris for July 2016;
Below: the new plot of land in Govone Village as it appeared in April 2016 and then how it was deeply ploughed to be ready for the implantation (June 2016); I think the difference is quite visible.
