Valle Orco

The Valle Orco farm is run by sisters Maria Rita and Laura Cravero with their brother Diego who, helped by his son, tends their 30 hectares or so of land. The farm took its present name in the 1980s but its roots go back decades. Its purpose is dual: livestock breeding, especially of Piedmontese cattle and pigs, and dairy farming. It uses the milk from its Friesian cattle to make fresh and mature cheeses, some of them blue or flavoured, its bestsellers being its toma, tomino, robiola and paglierina. In addition to the dairy, the farm also has its own slaughterhouse. The farm shop (open Thursday and Friday, from 3pm to 8pm), it sells not only fresh meat but also local specialities such as salampatata, potato salami (September-April), fresse (pig’s offal rissoles wrapped in caul), sanguinacci, or black pudding (in winter) and salame di turgia, beef salami. Valle Orco produce is on sale at street markets in the Basso Canavese district and in Turin (Campagna Amica markets).

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