Salento Living

Welcome to my supper club! Here, in our garden, we share foods and create memories, converse about life and cherish fine moments of wining, dining & being together. I have thus far only held parties for friends, but starting in summer 2025, our garden will be a place for early morning breakfast feats via sunset aperitivi to late night dinner parties. I also have a wish to hold women wellness workshops, where we learn about how to live in balance with our female biology while wining & dining.

Salento Wine & Dine is part of my venture Salento Creative Garden Events. More about the latter once the garden is in full bloom and my thesis finalized. But to give a teaser, I love to cook, embellish the setting, and host people in our house. With Salento Wine & Dine, my wish is to create a space for delightful evenings while making from-garden-to-table foods. We will drink local wines and eat local foods. If preferred, the cooking can be done together, but if not, I will happily make it for us. Whether done for a party of two or twenty, I cannot wait to put my passion and enthusiasm for gardening, cooking, wining, dining, and celebrating life together under the events of Salento Wine & Dine!

Dalla Terra Mia

This is it, this is the place. The feeling struck like a starlight and I sensed in my entire being that this was it. I had seen nothing but the worn and torn garage door, but my gut told me right from that moment that this was our spot on earth.

Back then and there, in October 10th of 2020, my husband and I were yet to fall in love with the old citrus orchard embellishing the garden, yet to treasure the grand fig tree acting the most beautiful of barriers between the inner garden and the greater farmland, and yet to become aware of the roughly 1 200 square meters of farmland coming with the property.

Here and now, summer of 2024 as we have reached, the renovation of our dream home is completed, and it is time to start with the garden. It is a huge project and we are in no rush. Rather, we look forward to take it slowly, piano piano as the Italians have it. We will do a trial and error sort of growing our food and let the farmland grow as we live it. One goal is to become self-sufficient, another to have loads of fun getting there.