VEGETABLE GARDEN
and Orchard
VEGETABLE GARDEN
and Orchard
Bio28 has a vegetable garden arranged on 8 terraces, made with chestnut wood palisades, and has a total area of 3,400 m2. The vegetable garden follows seasonality, with programming designed to meet the needs of the estate restaurant, which cooks for those who reside in our spaces, and sales to third parties with baskets of vegetables.
The choice of vegetables produced is implemented based on a criterion of economy and consistent with the chemical and physical characteristics of the soil, climate and enhancing local vegetables. Aromatic plants, such as Mint, Thyme, Savory, Sage, Rosemary, Lavender and the plants Euphorbia Characias and Agapanthus, were placed at the foot of the palisades to attract beneficial insects. The latter can be distinguished into pollinators, such as bees, or parasitoid and predatory insects, such as the ladybug, which feeds on aphids thus protecting the garden plants.
OUR VEGETABLE
Garden Basket
OUR VEGETABLE
Garden Basket
If you want to support KM0 farming that values natural growing techniques, you can take home our freshness and quality. Request a basket with the week's harvest for €8..
Reservations are required by writing to info@bio28.it, calling +39 0141 917277, or booking directly in person at reception.
To pick up the basket, we expect you every Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Strada Caminata 28, Moncalvo (AT).
OUR
Orchards
OUR
Orchards
At Bio28 there are not only vegetables, but also orchards: a few fruit species that need a low number of treatments performed with organic products.
The choice of fruit trees is guided by the need to produce at least one different fruit each month, thus having a scalar fruiting from spring until autumn. Thus we have: cherries, red, pink and white mulberries, plums, small berries, pomegranate, purple and green figs and apples. The harvested fruits are delivered to our chefs who use them in culinary preparations or to make jars of jam to sell to customers.
Today, the most advanced experiments point to multi-axis -or guyot- farming, that is, the creation of a pedestrian orchard in which most of the operations are done from
ground.
This experimental orchard is being carried out by Bio28, whereby, the vigor of the plant, being distributed among numerous vertical productive axes from a permanent “cordon,” allows the elimination of harvesting mechanics (fruit carts) and makes the orchard accessible to anyone. Inclusive workshops, such as foraging activities, can be conducted with this technique.
