Historically, the buffalo was a typical animal of the coastal Maremma landscape (fossil remains have even been found on the island of Pianosa), precisely because of its great adaptability to wetlands. Herds roaming freely through the marshes are often mentioned in travel accounts by foreign visitors from centuries past. By the late 1700s, around 2,500 buffaloes were recorded in the area, used solely for agricultural work. They remained in the Badiola and Lattaia plains, though in ever-dwindling numbers, until the early 1900s when agricultural machinery began to spread.

Our farm offers buffalo meat from animals born and raised here, following the principles of organic farming.

Our buffaloes live in herds in a free-range state, drinking from the natural springs that flow through our land and resting in the mud. The bull lives with the herd, and the calves are left with their mothers from birth so they can nurse throughout the entire lactation period.

Buffaloes are herd animals by nature, and they thrive when allowed to roam freely and graze. Forcing them into intensive farming systems would go against their instincts. That’s why we have chosen not to alter their natural lifestyle and to feed them exclusively with hay grown on our own land.