A future for the Torre Guaceto tomato in Italy

The pristine sea of the Torre Guaceto State Nature Reserve, 1,200 hectares of peace and beauty a few kilometers from Brindisi, is the backdrop to excellent agricultural productions that coexist side by side with bonds and safeguards. A relatively small reserve that presents an extraordinary variety of protected ecosystems. Here the eco-sustainable agriculture model set up by the Protection Consortium and supported by the farming community of the Reserve, worked well by recovering crops on the verge of extinction. Products such as the fiaschetto tomato, a historic cultivar of the area abandoned over the years to make room for more productive hybrid varieties, the centuries-old olive trees of the Ogliarola Salentina and Cellina di Nardò varieties and, again, the Susumaniello vineyards, have been plucked from the 'oblivion. Today the Torre Guaceto Fiaschetto Tomato, recognized as a Slow Food Presidium since 2008, has been produced according to the rules of organic farming since 2017. ...