Around Pisa AirPort

Welcome to Tuscany, the land of good food, the land of healthy good food. Organic foods are becoming much more widely available and popular in the whole country.

Organic food is produced according to legally regulated standards. Vegetables and cereals for example are grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers or sewage sludge, and they are processed without ionizing radiation or food additives.
Animals are reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones.
Above all, organic food is produced without the use of genetically modified organisms. Historically, organic farms have always been small family-run farms.In the province of Pisa there are currently several organic cheese farms that are very proud of being more sustainable and environmentally sound than the other cheese factories of the territory.Some of the organic cheese farms and factories located in the province of Pisa can be visited. Visitors will be able to have a special guide who will introduce to them the world of organic cheese production. People can visit the barns where the animal have lodging, some of the working rooms, where milk is processed into cheese, some of the storage rooms, where cheese is aged and eventually they can taste all the different kinds of cheese in combination with other typical local produce.

Some cheeses are made of raw milk, not dealt thermally, like in the millenarian tradition of cheese making: those are type of cheese difficult to work, by now rare to find, but with an unmistakable taste, synthesis of technological rigor and ancient knowledge.
Some kinds of cheese are treated on surface with tomato concentrate for weeks, some with olive oil, some are matured in oak barrels, some mature inside caves for months, and some are kept under ashes of olive trees…

Visiting this kind of farms, which are located in the marvellous countryside of the Pisan hills, can be very interesting and fascinating. It is suitable for everyone, also for families, scholars, smaller and bigger groups. If you want to visit one or more cheese farms and taste the delicious Tuscan organic cheese, you can contact the travel agency A&F which will organize a customized cheese tour for you.