Monterosso Company has revalued a cereal with ancient historical roots, Triticum Dicoccum , following the methods of organic and natural agriculture.
Farro is considered the most ancient cereal cultivated by man, archeological findings date it back to Syria, Egypt and Mesopotamia. In ancient Italy its cultivation went back to the pre-imperial times of Rome, as mentioned in the latin literature; in fact farro was the basic diet of ancient Romans .
Farro was largely used on the Roman table, particularly for the preparation of the Puls, a kind of “polenta” or of various soups made with farro crushed in rudimentary stone mortars, boiled in water or milk.
The Romans used farro also for sacred and propitiatory rites, as it was considered a symbol of power being protected by Ceres, the goddess of all corn. In fact during the ancient nuptial cerimonies there was the “conferratio” rite, where the betrothed exchanged farro pies and offered one to Joves (panis farreus), as a legal and patrimonial bond and to gain good luck.
Varius Flaccus says that the “Roman people had been eating only farro for about three hundred years”.
The Monterosso Farro and the roman civilization are bound by historical events: in fact the Farm grows farro in the Serragualdo plain, where the famous battle of Sentino took place in year 295 B.C., establishing the supremacy of Rome over the Etruscans.