BUCOLICO - CASE STUDIES ITALY

M A N G I A P A N E F A R M , C A M M A R A T A
TRADITION AND INNOVATION
VALUES AND DISCIPLINARIES
If the photographic documentation of the
great-grandfather's commitment to cows
dates to the 1930s, the family oral tradition
traces the beginning of the activities to at
least 5 generations behind, making
Domenico Panepinto and his collaborators
the sixth without interruptions.
Mangiapane’s Caciocavallo is a Slow
Food Presidium, and - together with
40 other dairies – the company is a
member of QGSS – Sicilian
Guaranteed and Safe Quality.
SCALABILITY AND RESILIENCE
Tradition and innovation are difficult to
distinguish in agriculture, and it would be
more appropriate to speak of retrieval. In
fact, although it is bred only by 3
companies in Sicily, Modican cows are
experiencing a renaissance and the
population has more than doubled from
2,000 to 5,000 in the course of a few years.
Mangiapane has re-instated milking with
the calf alongside the cow and convinced
other farmers to imitate him; milk is
collected in metal vats just like 200 years
ago, with no additives or ferment.
An element of process innovation
authentic innovation is the Adopt a
Modican cow scheme by which
Mangiapane intends to stimulate the
repopulation of this endemic breed
through the participation of mindful
consumers.
Domenico Mangiapane is open to
expansive perspectives, but believes
that - especially when addressing
niche segments - one can resist crises
by constantly raising quality and
drawing on passion: "when I was
younger and my friends kept up late
until 5 in the morning , I was home by
midnight because my alarm would go
off at 4.00. It never weighed on me
because I made a modelled my
passion into a job."
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