Description

The Cooperativa Agricola La Collina was founded in 1975 by a group of young people from Reggio Emilia who believe in the possibility of combining life, work and welcoming social hardship.
Initially, the agricultural activity was traditional and focused on vines, fodder, cereals and cattle and pig breeding. Subsequently, it was decided to extend cultivation to vegetables, sold directly on the farm. After a few years, the founding group’s philosophy of life clashes with the conventional chemical agricultural method, which depletes the land, polluting the earth and not giving the much vaunted results, results which do not take into account the high price paid by mother nature and all community.
In 1985, therefore, it was decided to adopt the organic farming method in cultivation and breeding, guaranteed by Icea , the Institute for Ethical and Environmental Certification. The interest in respecting nature and the Earth leads the Cooperative to deepen its knowledge of the biodynamic agriculture method conceived in the 1920s by Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophical science.
In 1996, it became the cultivation method practiced throughout the company, continuously explored thanks to the contribution of researchers such as Eugene Kolisko, Pleiffer, Maria Thun, Alex Podolinsky.
The Cooperativa Agricola La Collina believes in biodynamic agriculture as a safeguard for the environment and for human well-being. This way of working the land considers the fertility of the soil, biodiversity, and the environment as common goods to be returned with added value to future generations, therefore it respects the limits in production, while maintaining an efficient economy and guaranteeing excellent responses from agronomic point of view and the quality of the products obtained.