XtraBlatt issue 01-2016

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1 Lucia Dentis runs a farm shop
where she sells meat products
from her own cattle, as well as
bought-in wares.
2 Oreste Dentis (l) with his wife
Guiseppina Zanetti and daughter
Lucia Dentis (r) with husband
Pierluigi Bertello and their children
Giulia, Davide and Fabio.
3 Piedmontese food specialities are
simply delicious!
4 The Dentis family own Piedmontese
beef cattle, the meat from
which is marketed in the farm
shop and through a cooperative.
5 Hay in “MultiBales” is in high demand
from the Dentis customers.
enjoying Italian hospitality at a long table.
Served alongside bread and grissini
are typical regional dishes such as tatar,
veal in tuna sauce and filled tomatoes.
Not to forget: a good glass of wine.
GREEN
CLASSROOM
Sustainability plays an important role for
the Dentis family so it’s not surprising
that the Cascina Grange Scott also opens
its gates for kindergarten and school
classes. The farm is officially recognised
as an educational facility. Here, Lucia
Dentis wants to bring children closer to
a farmer’s craft and daily work, and to
the natural cycle of food production. The
farm as platform for active teaching: observation
and discovery. During the seasonal
cycle, the schoolchildren undergo
a type of course. Among other things,
painting takes place, covering everything
that nature offers.
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advantages of these cattle include meat
with a high lean content, large hind quarters
and, in the front quarters as well as
the rear, a strongly emphasized muscularity.
The beef colour is rosé. When the
cattle on the Cascina Grange Scott reach
600 to 700 kg they are shipped to the
slaughterhouse, ending up back on the
farm in the form of carcass halves for
jointing and further processing.
The beef is marketed in the farm`s own
shop. Lucia sells an average three carcasses
per month there. Prior to Christmas
the demand for good meat is highest,
she reports. Alongside home-produced
beef and home-made maize flour products,
Lucia sells further meat and sausage
products, cheeses, pasta, wine and other
foods in the shop. A cooperation with
two other farms make this broad range of
offerings possible. The farms are organized
as a cooperative – short farm-to-sale
distances and freshness of food are important
to the Dentis family.
In the evening, we are treated to a tasting
of the home-produced products and culinary
insight into traditional Piedmontese
cooking. After work is over, we sit outside
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Believed, above all, is that contact with
the animals must be made possible for
the children. Even although the family
believe strongly in their Piedmontese
beef breed, it wants to demonstrate
the variability of nature to their young
guests. So their Piedmontese cattle share
their quarters with other breeds – and
geese, hens, a horse, a pony and two
donkeys. To round off the variety, Lucia
thinks of introducing guestrooms on her
farm. However, first of all, the grain and
hay harvest is more important as well as
the farm shop and the farmyard school.
INFO
Incidentally, you
can access a video
of this report via
the QR code or
accessing the link:
krone.de/xtrablatt-videos.
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