The farm
The farmhouse in Concorezzo “La Camilla” is situated in a strategic position, a few steps from Milan, at the East ring road – Torri Bianche exit.
The farmhouse has:
Farmhouse in Brianza. Location for weddings and ceremonies
In the greenery of Brianza, the farmhouse is the ideal location for civil weddings, both outdoors and in the elegant indoor room, taking care of every detail of the ceremony: from the celebration to the floral arrangements, from the mise en place to the elaboration of personalized menus.
Traditional Lombard cuisine
The farmhouse La Camilla, near Milan, offers mainly typical dishes of traditional Lombard cuisine and regional Italian specialties. The choice of raw materials is made with great attention to detail.
The farmhouse in Concorezzo produces vegetables, fruit, berries, honey, and beef. The products are used entirely within the farmhouse restaurant. The pork and cured meats are processed by a partner farm in Brivio (LC). Other products such as cheeses, eggs, rice, wine, and oil are purchased from carefully selected farms in Lombardy. The cuisine is traditional, simple, and genuine.
THE FARM
The La Camilla farmhouse in Concorezzo breeds cows, horses, sheep, farmyard animals, bees and grows plants, fruits, berries, and vegetables. All products are used within the farmhouse restaurant. Delicious jams, shortcrust biscuits, chocolate liqueur and honey are available for sale.
HORSES
The farm breeds foals from “Sella Italiana” mares.
The mares enjoy a space suited to their needs, taking advantage of the paddocks made available to them where they can freely transit from the barn to the open spaces. The foals are bred in order to be trained in the disciplines of show jumping and dressage that are taught in the equestrian school “Le Torri” located at the Concorezzo farmhouse.
The stables have animals of different breeds used, in addition to the purposes described above, also based on their morpho-attitudinal characteristics. In particular, the Hungarians and Murges are suitable for attacks. The Andalusians, on the other hand, are employed in Spanish high school shows.
BREEDING
All the animals on the farm are raised with all-natural food: hay, barley and oats.
THE BEEF
At the farm they also breed bulls and beef heifers of the Croise, Charolaise, Limousine and Viandeux breeds, taking care of their feeding in order to bring to the table a product of the highest quality and exclusively coming from a guaranteed and certified supply chain.
The menu of the La Camilla farmhouse therefore includes fine cuts of its own production, from ribs to fillets, from stews to roasts, from scallops to entrecote.
THE BRIANZA SHEEP
The La Camilla farm participates, with the breeding of sheep and rams, in a project promoted by the Province of Monza and Brianza for the reintroduction of the Brianza sheep in the territory.
The animals come from farms accredited by the Brianza Sheep Association of Galbiate (LC) established in 1999. The association promotes the knowledge, diffusion, and breeding of this breed in order to safeguard and enhance a unique and unrepeatable genetic resource linked to the Brianza territory and its people.
CROPS
The main crop of the La Camilla farm is that of berries: blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries.
The orchard has persimmons, apples, pears, figs, plums, and apricots. In the vegetable garden and in the greenhouse, eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, pumpkins, fennel, aromatic plants, salads of various kinds, peas, radishes are mainly grown.
The products are grown according to the three basic principles of biodynamics:
1. Maintain the fertility of the land Make your plants healthy so they can resist diseases and pests. Produce the highest quality food possible.
2. The products obtained are used within the Concorezzo farmhouse. The crops are guaranteed by the “Made in Brianza” brand, assigned by the Chamber of Commerce of Monza and Brianza in order to promote the agricultural excellence of the area.
THE AVIARY
From noisy Cocorites to Gropponi, from funny parrots with tufts on their heads to diamond doves, the aviary is home to protected species native to Australia.
Parrots with round and deep eyes come from Africa, peacocks and Bengalis, a kind of small sparrow with a vermilion beak, from India.
There is no shortage of American squirrels who, from shy and reserved as they were, have now become the first to welcome those who bring them a blade of grass, unlike their much smaller and striped Japanese cousins who do not show themselves easily.
Then there are the adorable dwarf bunnies and the “lion’s heads”, the ram rabbits with pendulous ears and the angora rabbits. From Italy, doves, pheasants, Paduan chickens and quails arrive.
Almost all the animals have settled in well and this is demonstrated by the fact that they reproduce easily and each little being has a nickname that children give to their new friends when they come to visit them. Children will be able to have fun discovering birdwatching and all the techniques of observing these beautiful animals.
THE NURSERY GARDEN
La Camilla, in Concorezzo, has a 3,500 square meters nursery garden that has a wide variety of ornamental hedge plants, all of which can be purchased directly on site.
It is possible to choose the desired plant yourself or ask for the assistance of Luigi, an expert nurseryman and collaborator of the farm.
Camilla’s professional staff also creates private and corporate gardens. The operators of the farmhouse provide adequate pre- and post-design advice and follow the customer in the phases necessary for the maintenance of green spaces.
THE LAKE
In the summer months, the lakes become a shelter and refreshment for some wild breeds such as greenfinches, blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales, wagtails, white and grey herons, mallards, falcons, wild hares and swallows whose nesting is favoured by the agricultural structure.
During the year there are several “farm experience” events, guided tours of visual-tactile-auditory knowledge where children can interact with all the farm animals.
