Methods of production
The cultivation follows the strictly organic method. In the season preceding the planting of the aromatic plants, subsoiling and harrowing operations are carried out, followed by green manuring. The seedlings are planted manually on baulated and mulched prose to reduce the development of weeds and, above all, to reduce the consumption of water for irrigation during the rooting phases. Until the time of harvest, various manual weeding interventions follow in order to clean the plants from insects and weeds, material not suitable for distillation. The presence of essential oils is not constant during vegetative development, and each species has its own balsamic time - that is, the moment in which the peak of essential oil content is obtained - which coincides with the time of harvest.
Distillation
The cultivation follows the strictly organic method. In the season preceding the planting of the aromatic plants, subsoiling and harrowing operations are carried out, followed by green manuring. The seedlings are planted manually on baulated and mulched prose to reduce the development of weeds and, above all, to reduce the consumption of water for irrigation during the rooting phases. Until the time of harvest, various manual weeding interventions follow in order to clean the plants from insects and weeds, material not suitable for distillation. The presence of essential oils is not constant during vegetative development, and each species has its own balsamic time - that is, the moment in which the peak of essential oil content is obtained - which coincides with the time of harvest.
The Poder Spinoni
The plot, extended for about 25 hectares and in certified organic cultivation since 2002, is cultivated half in the woods and half in officinal aromatic plants for the production of essential oils for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and phytotherapeutic use.
In addition to being surrounded by 2,200 meters of arboreal-shrub hedge formed by native species, along the service paths that divide the plots there are ancient rows of Mulberry of particular landscape, historical and cultural value. All this contributes to increasing biodiversity and in particular favors the presence of bees and other pollinating insects that play an essential role in ecosystems. It is also a natural refuge for specimens of sedentary and migratory avifauna, such as hawks, jays, specimens of woodpeckers and cattle egrets.