Agricultural

Our history

Back in 1900 in this agricultural farm where L'Agricola is now based the old generations of my family, in the figures of my grandfather Crescentino Battistelli and my grandmother Scattolini Margherita, laid the foundations for what has now become a splendid commercial reality.

The first turning point was when my mother Marisa and my uncle Luigi, known to most as Giggetto, began the direct trade of their agricultural products and started with the breeding of laying hens, selling everything at the market in Piazza S. Giovanni di Dio. .

The elderly of the neighborhood will still remember the wooden benches covered in summer and winter by the sun umbrella, a real ordeal in the sultry heat of the summers but above all in the bitter cold of the winter, however always with a smile on their lips, so much so that they were nicknamed "the bench of the smile".
In those years Marisa and Giggetto met and dated with their peers, especially two brothers, Giulio and Giuliana Casadio, sons of local breeders and pork traders from their own farms. The 4 boys later married and my sister Carla and I were born from the union of Marisa and Giulio and from the union of Giuliana and Giggetto were born Beatrice, Paolo and Francesca.

The new generations have continued to work within the company continuing and indeed expanding and improving it: new horticultural plantations were developed in greenhouses and cattle breeding was also created. However, the globalization of the fruit and vegetable market, with goods coming from abroad all year round, canceling and destroying what was the seasonality of our product, created big problems for us.
economic level and forced me and my cousin Paolo to the decision to give up the fruit and vegetable trade and to dedicate ourselves to the direct sale of products derived from our farms within the same company. However, a larger and more avant-garde store was needed, so we decided to take advantage of the old porcareccia (of which we still keep the original photos of the time in our store) to transform it into a company shop with attached meat processing workshops.