Farmer cultivating vegetables in Borgo Santo Pietro estate
Farmer cultivating vegetables in Borgo Santo Pietro estate

Culinary gardens

The Borgo Santo Pietro estate supplies both the inspiration and ingredients for its restaurants .

Our culinary gardens lie at the heart of Borgo’s farm-to-plate philosophy, where our executive chef of Saporium designs their plates from the source in collaboration with our culinary gardeners. The estate’s freshly harvested ingredients are also transformed into hearty Tuscan fare at the hotel’s Trattoria Sull’Albero Trattoria and used in The Borgo Cooking School.

Vegetable field

In our vegetable field, we cultivate over 200 species of vegetables and 50 aromatic herbs. The field supplies our hotel and Michelin-starred restaurants with the highest quality selection of fresh produce. Our chefs use these organically-cultivated ingredients to create their delicious farm-to-plate cuisine.

Orchard and nut field

From the first sighting of the primatìccio (early fruit) in spring to the autumn harvest, our orchards yield a fragrant bounty of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, and quinces. In the nut field, we cultivate walnut trees alongside herbs for our natural skincare range. Guests wandering the grounds may encounter ancient trees that have borne fruit for generations, like the maggiolino, a 100-year-old wild pear tree arching over the chicken sheds—the last of its kind in Chiusdino. While the maggiolino fruits in May (maggio), the towering plum tree shading the Borgo Cooking School courtyard, known as susine di San Pietro, owes its name to pure coincidence.
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