OPEN from 29 March 2012 (at last)
27/03/2012
Letter to our kind guests
Good day to everyone,
Good day to everyone,
Casa Scaparone will be open again to guests from 29 March 2012.
Winter was very hard but we got through it. The vineyards have been pruned and tied, the vegetable plot is ready for seeding, the greenhouses have withstood assault by the cold weather and the wheat, after sleeping under the snow, is bright green and full of life.
As in other years, we have spent the last few weeks tidying up, re-painting and changing our home so that once again this year it will be a pleasurable place... especially for us!
A number of important innovations involve the new employees joining the team this year and several pregnancies that will increase the population of our home.
And above all, the long-awaited 2012 has come around. The year of change, the year of the New World, the year when Casa Scaparone hopes to serve lunch and dinner with food from organic agriculture.
After our “trials” in previous years, this year we will attempt to take supplies of materials from organic agriculture that, alongside our own flours, wines, fruit, vegetables and conserves, will become almost all the ingredients we use! We certainly to achieve this, with the Faith that we all have in the Change that our fine Western society can attain, with everyone's help, including our kind guests.
This year is also the TENTH ANNIVERSARY (incredible!) of our opening and we are consequently already planning small (of course!) celebrations this Summer, perhaps together with our Balacaval friends at the end of June or July. We may be able to organise a mini-festival of traditional music, with dancing and a little theatre; we are doing our best! Keep up with our and we shall soon be able to define the time and place for celebrations.
As for everything else, we won't complain about work or even the increases in taxation; we can say that we have a secret trust that once again the inhabitants of this peninsula known since time immemorial as Italy, despite all the immense differences characterising it, will manage to pull through in the best possible way and break out of this impasse with a better civic and social awareness and human responsibility as regards the Earth and the Universe.
Since we are in Alba, all of us working in this fortunate part of Piedmont really have little to complain about: sun, earth, water, greenery, history, architecture, work, peace and so many tourists all around us every day! What else could we want?
I wish you all a peaceful 2012 and a year of true, voluntary and sincere Change: the New World is waiting for us and it is up to us to be a part of it or not. Let's think in a New way, let's live in a New way!
Battista and all the friends of Casa Scaparone
Winter was very hard but we got through it. The vineyards have been pruned and tied, the vegetable plot is ready for seeding, the greenhouses have withstood assault by the cold weather and the wheat, after sleeping under the snow, is bright green and full of life.
As in other years, we have spent the last few weeks tidying up, re-painting and changing our home so that once again this year it will be a pleasurable place... especially for us!
A number of important innovations involve the new employees joining the team this year and several pregnancies that will increase the population of our home.
And above all, the long-awaited 2012 has come around. The year of change, the year of the New World, the year when Casa Scaparone hopes to serve lunch and dinner with food from organic agriculture.
After our “trials” in previous years, this year we will attempt to take supplies of materials from organic agriculture that, alongside our own flours, wines, fruit, vegetables and conserves, will become almost all the ingredients we use! We certainly to achieve this, with the Faith that we all have in the Change that our fine Western society can attain, with everyone's help, including our kind guests.
This year is also the TENTH ANNIVERSARY (incredible!) of our opening and we are consequently already planning small (of course!) celebrations this Summer, perhaps together with our Balacaval friends at the end of June or July. We may be able to organise a mini-festival of traditional music, with dancing and a little theatre; we are doing our best! Keep up with our and we shall soon be able to define the time and place for celebrations.
As for everything else, we won't complain about work or even the increases in taxation; we can say that we have a secret trust that once again the inhabitants of this peninsula known since time immemorial as Italy, despite all the immense differences characterising it, will manage to pull through in the best possible way and break out of this impasse with a better civic and social awareness and human responsibility as regards the Earth and the Universe.
Since we are in Alba, all of us working in this fortunate part of Piedmont really have little to complain about: sun, earth, water, greenery, history, architecture, work, peace and so many tourists all around us every day! What else could we want?
I wish you all a peaceful 2012 and a year of true, voluntary and sincere Change: the New World is waiting for us and it is up to us to be a part of it or not. Let's think in a New way, let's live in a New way!
Battista and all the friends of Casa Scaparone
