Taste and use

This is what makes Sicilian mandarins of the "Tardivo di Ciaculli" variety so special:

• Taste: The "Ciaculli" mandarin is a descendant of the "Avana" mandarin and has a distinctive flavor. It is relatively light in color and has a thin skin.
• Quality features: These completely untreated organic mandarins come fresh from the harvest and straight into your hands without any intermediaries. To avoid the standardization mania, we supply you with mixed sizes and shapes of mandarins and declare them on the box as "not calibrated - second category". This has no effect on the taste of the fruit. Near Palermo there is a Slow Food Presidio for the preservation of the "Ciaculli" mandarin variety.
• Use: They are particularly suitable for enjoying fresh or for preserving as jam. If stored in a cool place, you can keep the mandarins for approx. 2 weeks.

Cultivation and ecology

This is how the Sicilian "Tardivo di Ciaculli" are grown:

• Cultivation method: Organic farming.
• Producers: Together with his family and helpers, Fabio Faila has been running a 44-hectare organic farm for several generations. The farm is located in Castelvetrano on the south-western coast of Sicily. There they grow various citrus fruits such as mandarins, clementines, oranges, lemons and cedri lemons. Fabio's wife takes care of the administration, while three workers from North Africa help the family work in the fields.

This is how the price is made up

Cultivation & processing CHF 7.10

• Cultivation, harvesting and packing: Fabio Faila and his harvest workers, Valdibella cooperative

Transport & logistics CHF 9.45

• Transportation, quality assurance, packaging: CTM Agrofair, freight forwarders, customs

Procurement & distribution CHF 7.09

• Organization, communication, online market: Crowd Container