Libera Terra

Sicily & southern Italy

Land returned to cooperative farming. Pasta, tomatoes and the taste of southern Italy.

A house, a craft, a story.

Libera Terra passata and peeled tomatoes alongside fresh tomatoes. — Southern tomatoes, as passata and preserves.

Wheat and tomatoes. The taste of the South.

Durum wheat grown in southern Italy becomes bronze-drawn, slowly dried pasta. Its slightly rough surface holds the sauce; its texture keeps its bite through cooking.

Alongside it, passata and preserves carry the flavour of tomatoes harvested when ripe. A cuisine of few ingredients, where the quality of each one matters.

Organic farming
Bronze drawing
Slow drying

Land with a new story.

Libera Terra cooperatives farm land confiscated from mafia organisations and returned to social use. Italian law 109 of 7 March 1996 allows these confiscated assets to be returned to the community.

Organic farming goes hand in hand with a commitment to helping people into work. On this same land, people facing barriers to employment take part in the cooperatives’ work and the life of the region.

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