Consortium
Cons. Agrario di Siena
Consorzio Agrario di Siena is a cooperative formed by farmers in the provinces of Siena and Arezzo. Founded back in 1901, it has always maintained substantially unaltered the function of support for agriculture and development of agricultural production in the area, function that also carries through the sale of agri-food products in its network of stores located on the two provinces.
The agro-food sector of the Consorzio Agrario di Siena currently includes eighteen shops, three butchers, two of which (and Siena Bettolle) exclusively with IGP Chianina meat from local farms, two agricultural companies conducted directly (San Piero in the "Chianti Classico" and Ferraiolo in the "chianti Colli Senesi"), an oil mill which is also in the "chianti Classico" a Enopolio cellar with bottling center of Poggibonsi. Two restaurants complete the structure using only raw materials of the area, "the Grand Duchy Stop" to Valdichiana Outlet of Foiano and the "Taverna del Granducato" San Gimignano ".
The Consortium for the supply of its own network of stores, is aimed mainly to its members and customers of Siena and Arezzo area, as sheep farmers who produce cheese in the Crete Senesi or in Val d'Orcia, pig farmers who produce sausages with traditional methods, fruit and vegetable producers of the Chiana Valley and the like. The outlets of the Consortium participating in the "Shops of Campagna Amica" project promoted by Coldiretti on a national scale for the enhancement of the Italian agricultural sector.
The Consortium is the promoter of the project "Pasta of Farmers Toscani" a paste of quality durum wheat, realized - with traceability system - from wheat grown exclusively in the territory of the provinces of Siena and Arezzo, whose industrial stages (production of semolina and pasta) are entirely made in Tuscany.
For several years he has discovered and developed the ancient varieties of bread "Verna" grain creating a "Verna bread" (sourdough, stone ground) and "Verna Beer" (raw beer, re-fermented in the bottle) that have had significant success for their uniqueness.
