{"id":547,"date":"2021-07-27T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliobiologicoporziola.it\/?page_id=547"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:00:16","slug":"porziola-farm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oliobiologicoporziola.it\/en\/porziola-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Porziola Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let me introduce myself: I am Claudio Manara<\/strong>, a real estate broker since 1981, when I chose to follow in my father\u2019s footsteps, footsteps that my daughter Ilaria has also chosen to follow. For several years I was not directly involved in the management of the land, which was rented out and cultivated with cereals and hay, but the idea of planting a type of crop that could involve me personally and at the same time be suitable for the type of land I owned was finding more and more space within me. The land is part of a small plateau that overlooks the Reno river and the Porziola lakes<\/strong> (a fish and environmental oasis).<\/em><\/p>Claudio Manara<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Manara family<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The history of the Porziola Farm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I inherited from my parents<\/strong>, both of whom died prematurely, a small farm in Sasso Marconi called \u201cPorziola\u201d<\/strong> which was about seven hectares in size and worked for five. My parents were farmers in Romagna and moved to Sasso Marconi in 1954, where they first became traders (butchers and bartenders), then my father became a livestock broker and later a real estate broker; but origins don\u2019t betray and that\u2019s why they decided to buy this farm in 1975<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of the cultivation of our olive trees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, what I can now call \u2018my adventure\u2019 began<\/strong> when I had the opportunity to meet, thanks to an article published in the \u2018Resto del Carlino\u2019 newspaper, an ARPO (Regional Olive Producers Association) technician. I immediately talked to Maurizio, a lifelong friend, and at the age of 50 we decided that it is never too late to make a new start. So we prepared the soil according to the directions we had been given, ripping and ploughing, and planted the first 240 small seedlings<\/strong>, grown in polyconic pots, in the spring of 2009<\/strong>, on about 1 hectare of land.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n