On a visit to a farm for strawberries, asparagus, and something else

Less than an hour from Rome, in the hilly area of Nepi, lies a small farm with an unusual spirit. In Orto di Gelso you won't see big machines and greenhouses. There are no chemicals used in the fields either. Before your eyes, there are only rows of asparagus, strawberries, and young fruit trees, arranged with care, writes Roma Today. Bio-production is growing in our country, but there is a lack of data on consumption The farm's owner is Asmik Kazaryan, born in Armenia but raised in Rome, where she arrived with her family at the age of six. After more than ten years of work in an international institution, she made a radical decision: to leave her stable career and create something of her own - on the land. I worked in an office, I was satisfied, but I thought about farming. I didn't have a clear plan yet, but I knew I wanted to do something of my own, Asmik shares. At 35, she found land in Nepi, in the province of Viterbo, sunny and with a long history of agriculture. The area is ...