In 2019 Colle Berardino produced about 3 tonnes of wheat, which in the supply chain is worth €80 per 100 kilograms (as a reference, while we are writing, the average prices on Bologna Commodity Exchange for an organic product like the one produced by the start-up based in Rocca Sinibalda is €27 per 100 kg – Author’s Note). «We intend to sell all the cereals we have produced to the Cooperative, then we may purchase back part of them, both for direct sales at our premises and to sell them at local markets or to ethical purchasing groups» explains Alice. Besides cereals, we also have legumes. In 2019 we sowed lentils, wild peas, and chickpeas, recording a yield of 500, 300 and 600 kilos, respectively.

In Rocca Sinibalda, Colle Berardino’s cereals, legumes, and other products, like oil, honey, processed and oil-preserved vegetables, are on sale at the village’s butcher’s shop. «The local butcher only butches animals from his own farm and he is happy to sell local products». The Town Administration too values the presence of businesses like Alice & Federico’s, to the extent that, as part of the National Strategy for Inland Areas, it has proposed to reclaim the former slaughterhouse and turn it into a processing laboratory managed by a consortium.