Rivalta, fraction of Lesignano de’ Bagni in the province of Parma, the Rosa dell’Angelo farm by Mauro Ziveri is based, keeper of ancient breeds of black pigs. It is here that his animals can live free to graze in the wide spaces of hills growing in the open and feeding on fresh grass, roots, tubers, berries and acorns that they find in nature, to which is added corn, barley, wheat and field beans. "Free under the sun, the wind, the rain, free to express your own instinct. Each pig has approximately a thousand square metres that allow them to grow happy and healthy.
The idea of ​​this farm came from the need to produce a better ham than the standards, going back to rediscover the scents and flavours of a time," says Mauro.
The result? Obtain better thighs to be salted and matured according to the most traditional methods possible to have an indescribable power of aromas and flavors. A challenge, his, launched in if the same time ago and today gives encouraging results.