Characteristics
This is a prized and ancient variety of lemon, born from the spontaneous mutation of the Femminello comune favored by the particular habitat of the Riviera dei Gelsomini in the Ionian coastal strip of the province of Reggio Calabria. It has a thin peel with an excellent scent and from which a very precious essential oil is extracted. The abundant juice is surprising for the balance between aromatic substances and the low acidity content
It is a precious ally of your health because it is rich in vitamins, minerals and powerful antioxidants. Low in calories, it promotes the absorption of iron and
antioxidants present in other foods
These characteristics are enhanced by the daily temperature variations and other peculiarities of the Costa dei Gelsomini territory where it flowers up to 4 times a year with harvesting at the end of October and continuing into May.
Advice
Its characteristics make it particularly suitable in the kitchen for making desserts, sorbets and ice creams as well as for flavouring dishes and drinks, nothing of this fruit is thrown away
- The peel: do not throw away because this is where most of the aromatic substances and vitamins are concentrated. Use it to flavor salt, make candied fruit or even better, limocello by peeling the lemons with a potato peeler. Don't worry, our lemons are not treated before or after harvesting.
- Juice: Freeze it in ice cube trays to always have it ready and fresh.
- The pulp: make some marmalade. Find the recipes on our blog
- To always have it fresh and on hand: put it in slices in the freezer
the fruit
- Skin colour: intense yellow when fully ripe
- Sugar content: low
- Total acidity: high
- Juice yield: high
- Shape: ovoid
- Average weight: 180 - 200 g (about 5 for every kg)
- Properties: purifying and detoxifying, anti-oxidant, draining, natural disinfectant and an excellent digestive!
- Peel: medium thickness with thick albedo
- Flesh color: uniformly white; coarse texture
Ripening period
from October to April/May
The "digital supply chain" is a model of sustainability
Ours is a digital model that does not only mean getting directly from the producer to the consumer, but a way of doing things that has an impact on our sustainability and on the quality of the products that we manage to bring to your table. You will feel the difference!
Sustainable for the environment
Avoiding remunerating all the intermediate steps of the traditional supply chain (often only commercial) helps to make the price to the consumer more transparent and allows the farm to allocate the right resources to practice sustainable agriculture.
Social and cultural sustainability
The digital supply chain has a concrete impact on the territory, not only economically! It means being able to provide work for (logistics, social media, marketing, etc.), but also having links with institutions, associations, people to whom we turn to communicate our model with educational, social or pure entertainment activities ( see HERE ).
Sustainability for the farm
Skipping the intermediate steps also means having direct contact with the customer trying to explain what the value of your product is, which being 100% organic sometimes is not perfect on the outside but it is on the inside. This also helps to minimize waste (i.e. the non-perfect products that the GDO would throw away)
Sustainability for the consumer
It allows access to quality products at the right price, with greater guarantees. The customer "looks in the face" directly those who have sweated to produce and those who put in the effort every day to produce have every interest in having a satisfied customer. All this is now impossible in the "impersonal" model of the GDO
FRESH, SEASONAL AND TASTY
Short supply chain is synonymous with freshness and quality that can be perceived between a fruit that arrives at your home within 48 hours of harvesting ripened in the sun of the Riviera dei Gelsomini instead of the 5/7 days of a fruit harvested a little later in ripening to last longer than the traditional supply chain
Fresh and perfectly ripe products
Our products are picked fresh and above all naturally ripened in the sun of the Riviera dei Gelsomini: you will taste the flavour!
Seasonal Fruits and Typical Local Varieties
We have decided to recover old varieties that have now been commercially abandoned in favor of standardized ones that are more suitable for large-scale retail trade processing, often to the detriment of the taste and quality of the products.