Il Giardino del Codirosso

Il Giardino del Codirosso Holiday House for 6/10 people, private garden and swimming-pool, 3 bedrooms, 3+1 bathrooms, spa with sauna/hammam/jacuzzi

07/11/2024
THE OLIVES HARVEST: we call it 'la raccolta delle olive'.  As a small farm like ours, the raccolta means so much and rem...
02/11/2024

THE OLIVES HARVEST: we call it 'la raccolta delle olive'.

As a small farm like ours, the raccolta means so much and remind me so many thoughts.

The raccolta is when everyone you meet is asking you if you started it, everyone. And it is followed by the second related question: are the olives producing well? And they have always heard someone that had a better % of oil than yours (normally our olives produces from the 10% till the 14% of oil).

During the raccolta everyone is helping you. Your fathers are coming to help you with the hard work of harvesting, your mothers are taking care of your children, preparing you some cooked food and fresh yummy lasagne because they knows that you will not have time to cook by your self, offering to go to supermarket for you, friends are collecting kids from school. Your children can't wait to come back home, to see all the family around and happy that they can finally take our the olives from the plants (after many months earing you screaming to not touch them). Children loves to help and to try to pull the nets or to take up the cassettes which for sure are heavier than them.

During the raccolta you see the season that is changing, you start at mid October with a short sleeves t-shirt saying that it is incredibly hot and you can finish with a jumper and a jacket. And sometimes it happens that the very first snow is coming down at the end of November, it really means that the raccolta is finished and it is time to stop and relax a bit.

The raccolta is very hard work, something more for men but also women can do a lot and they always made a big part of it.

It is exhausting but it is also something that make you realize that you live in a wonderful place and that make you enjoy the very little things like having your lunch break (with a simple pane e prosciutto) in the fields, in the grass, under the sun and it is even more special if you can do overlooking our lake. Precious relaxing moments.

The raccolta means living 1 month with dirty clothes, brown hands and with the typical smell of the nests.

You also ear a lot of stories about the past, when all normal people did this job manually (most of the people had some land or a garden with some olives trees). It could take all winter, it was endless. They also kept the olives in the ceiling of their houses for long periods before going to the mill. The % of oil was incredibly high but for sure the quality of the oil was not the same as it is now.

Olive oil is very precious and only those that had experienced the harvest can really understand how priceless this product can be. Lake Garda oil is mainly produced by single families or little farms like ours. Small manual productions where the human job is necessary and often the price of a bottle of oil is not even covered by all cost of the production. It is only the passion that pushes us to continue and make us desire to taste the new oil, which is the fruit of so much work.

I often think at my childhood, when all autumn my parents took me to help them after school, we had some olive plants in our garden. My job was collecting the olives from the wet grass, those falled put from the nets and I really hated that job. It was the worst job I could do and it is incredible that now I make this being my job. And I am very proud of it.

Indoor relax on our sofa
31/08/2024

Indoor relax on our sofa

26/08/2024

     # greens&blues
17/08/2024

# greens&blues

Special little guests ♥️Loving simple 🎁 🎈 how our guests see us 🎈Grazie
06/07/2024

Special little guests ♥️
Loving simple 🎁
🎈 how our guests see us 🎈
Grazie

My new bodyguards 🤣
22/04/2024

My new bodyguards 🤣

💜💜💜💜 plenty of small wild orchids on our hill 💜💜💜💜
07/04/2024

💜💜💜💜 plenty of small wild orchids on our hill 💜💜💜💜

Lake Garda in winter for dog lovers        ♥️
09/02/2024

Lake Garda in winter for dog lovers ♥️

10/11/2023

Kiki at work ❤️
18/10/2023

Kiki at work ❤️

15/05/2023

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🌈 at the other side
24/04/2023

🌈 at the other side

April relax after the rain
24/04/2023

April relax after the rain

Happy Easter from Il Giardino del Codirosso
09/04/2023

Happy Easter from Il Giardino del Codirosso

Our gnomes are back at work!! Spring is coming soon 🌱🐞🌱
04/03/2023

Our gnomes are back at work!! Spring is coming soon 🌱🐞🌱

Cutting olive trees like hearts
20/11/2022

Cutting olive trees like hearts

November in love
10/11/2022

November in love

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Via Monte Del Capo, 12
San Felice Del Benaco
25010

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who we are

We are a young family, that loves nature and outdoor life. We felt in love with this property in San Felice del Benaco and decided that it would be the perfect place where both to work and to live together with our family and our dogs. So we started our farm called “Il Giardino del Codirosso” producing extra virgin olive oil and since 2019 we are also offering hospitality in a holiday house. The name “Il Giardino del Codirosso” (the Codirosso Garden) reminds the little bird with a red tail that can be seen in our territory (in different languages it is called redstart, Rotschwanz, rouge-queue, colirrojo, الحميراء طائر, горихвостка, 鸫)


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