Cascina Pizzavacca
In Soarza, a small hamlet of Villanova sull'Arda, overlooking the Lacenza banks of the Great Italian River, there is a farm where even today we work with passion to grow raw materials in harmony with the land, enhancing the varieties of native fruits and vegetables, grown in the field, proposing the simple and genuine recipes of the peasant tradition. Farmers by vocation, the Pisaroni family, for generations has been cultivating the many varieties of fruit and vegetables in their fields, offering products processed by hand according to the ancient recipes of the lower Piacenza, such as fruit nectars and preserved vegetables, which exclude the use of preservatives and dyes.
Pizzavacca is still today the unmistakable seal of simplicity and genuineness of the gestures of the time, values that the Pisaroni family transmits through the flavor of its products: nectars and fruit and vegetable jams.
Over the years the small artisan workshop has been transformed into a modern laboratory where vegetables and fruits grown in the field are transformed. This activity was a winning choice, to the point that in a few years the success achieved made it possible to move and expand the laboratory, replanning the old stables, where until the 80s livestock was raised and to install the photovoltaic system, which today feeds many of the new processing processes.
From the attention shown to the environment from the moment of the cultivation of the raw materials until the subsequent processing phases, the company intends to further reduce the impacts on the environment by also creating a composting plant, fed with the fruit and vegetable residues of the processing, thus closing the processing cycle to fully exploit the potential of sustainable practices, for the production of its energy needs from renewable sources.
The savoir faire of traditional agricultural production and the look to the future of a reality able to innovate, without losing its roots, are a vehicle and tool to understand its values and discover what must be safeguarded, so that tradition is not only an exercise in memory, but something tangible.