The farmhouse Podere La Casetta owns 96 hectars of land. Its farming activities feature the respect apllied to the various operations related to the working of the lands and the quality of its products.

CROP-GROWING
35 hectars of the farm soil are devoted to fodder-growing, such as sorghum, clover, lucerne, which once ready will be sold as "in the green state". That means that the farm will prepare the soil in order to plant the crops and make them grow to maturity. The final buyer will follow direct the harvesting and the further operations required to have the crops prepared for the market.
The principal steps involved in growing crops are :

PREPARING THE SOIL : it involves different operations and take place in july and august. The first step is fertilising : la Casetta mainly uses animal and nitrogenous fertilizers, the quantity of the latter one being accepted by the biological Agriculture. The second step is the plowing, the effect of which is to break up the soil, killing weeds and aerate the soil; in most cases plowing leaves the soil broken up in lumps there are too large therefore is normally followed by the harrowing that will help better the placing of the seed during the sowing. The sowing itself involves the placing of the proper quantity of seed at the proper depth and spacing in the soil, and then covering it with soil. Today, special machines are available to perform it with precision but even so a lot of time and experience are essential. Crops grown to maturity are then sold and the buyer will personally perform the harvesting and the further operations to have the crops prepared for the market.

FORESTRY
Since the Roman Age, forestry has been a very important agricultural activitiy of Maremma. The huge forests of the region have contributed to make the felling part of the local culture and tradition. The felling is obviously strictly ruled by the Forestry Commission. Normally when a tree has been felled, timber is converted into lumber and lumber products ready for use in the woodworking industry but in this area the main production being of wood to be used as firewood and charcoal The felling season opens every year on the 1st October and close on the 30th March.

OLIVE OIL MAKING
The farm owns approx. 500 olive trees. It then produces extra-virgin oil from olive trees that do not receive any chemical treatment. Therefore the production is limited. The harvesting of the olives, which is still done manually with net and rakes, takes place between October and November. After the olives are harvested they are daily transported to a local presser to be washed, pressed, squeezed and spinned to have the oil ready for the market.