Our vineyard was planted in the Spring of 2004. The restoration of the chapel of San Giovanni at Resta was completed. And in September,...

From the first of June, until the first of September, the sun was an enemy. Friendly enough when it first appeared at dawn, it soon...

Summer 2002: went to Canada for my sister's wedding. We did our first house exchange. Poor guests: it rained almost every day! Luckily we...

The first couple of summers we spent at Resta were pretty quiet: nobody except us and our immediate families had realised how beautiful...

With the turn of the millennium our first guests began to arrive: family members from Canada and the UK. In the month of May they were...

The last Spring of the century. The kitchen cabinets and appliances are delivered. We borrow a van and take an adventurous trip to Ikea...

September 7 through 25, 2015 I walked from Chiavari to Resta: 337.5 km!

In August 1998 we explored southern Tuscany from our base at Agriturismo Stagnino, near Pienza. It was on the final day of our holiday...

After six weeks of lockdown we finally got around to renewing the Fattoria Resta web site! Our original web site, entirely coded line by...