April 28, 2025
Ancient grains are a heritage of biodiversity that is good for the health of people and the planet. Discover the commitment of the Bio Miceli company to preserve it.
In Buseto Palizzolo, a small town on the hills between Erice and Segesta, in the province of Trapani, the Bio Miceli farm is dedicated with passion and respect to the cultivation of ancient organic grains.
Rosaria Miceli, founder of the company, carries on a tradition that keeps the family's agricultural heritage alive and unites past and future.
With the awareness of wanting to implement a type of agriculture that respects the environment, the company has chosen a rigorous organic farming path, which does not compromise the health of natural resources such as soil and aquifers, fundamental elements for a healthy and fertile ecosystem. This is the commitment of Rosaria Miceli since 2001, sealed with the organic certification obtained in 2013: no to glyphosate, pesticides, GMOs, synthetic fertilizers and herbicides, space instead for crop rotation and the use of green manure such as sulla and fava beans for nitrogen fixation and better soil fertility.
To protect biodiversity and safeguard the local agricultural and naturalistic heritage, the company has embraced the cultivation of ancient Sicilian grains such as Perciasacchi durum wheat, so called because of the pointed shape of the grain that pierced (“perciava”, in Sicilian) the jute sacks in which it was transported, renouncing modern genetically modified hybrids.
