Food & Wine - visit the producers: Gaby

NaturaLys (from Natura and Lys, the river that runs through the valley) was founded in 2008 when the owners decided to buy four beehives for family honey production. The desire was to return to tending bees, as their grandparents had already done in Gaby years before, and to start an activity in close contact with the surrounding nature. Since that year, the number of families has grown at the same rate as the bee stings collected!
In 2012, they also started growing vegetables: potatoes, courgettes, pumpkins, ribs and chops, salads, onions, carrots... and everything else that can grow at this altitude. The natural and agricultural context in which the farm is located makes it possible to obtain genuine products of high organoleptic quality.
The vegetables are sold freshly picked and also processed into many delicacies in the workshop, as are the small fruits (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and currants) that are cultivated on an area of 2500 square metres.
Since spring 2015, a dozen colourful laying hens have joined the family.

Products

Acacia, chestnut, wildflower and rhododendron honey
Fruit jams and vegetable compotes and chutneys
Cultivation of vegetables and small fruits and vegetables (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, currents and blackberries).

For the shop’s opening times, please contact the farm directly.

Visit to the farm with product tasting

The farm owners love to tell people about their work to all those want to get to know the life of mountain farmers, the fascinating world of honey and the life of bees.
Cost of the visit + tasting per person: 16 € adults, 10 € children 4-12 years, free for children under 3 years.
Number of visitors required for the visit: min. 8 paying visitors.
Duration of the visit : about 1 ½ hours.

Educational workshops

Workshops are organised for schools and summer centres tailored to the needs, interest and age of the children.

How to get there

From Pont-Saint-Martin, go towards Gressoney. Immediately after the built-in area of Issime you will come to the village of Zuino; turn right onto a private road immediately after the Gaby power station.
Descending from Gressoney towards Pont-Saint-Martin, turn left following the signpost on the regional road which indicates the farm, in Zuino, the last hamlet of Gaby before entering into Issime.

NaturaLys is a family-run mountain farm specialised in bee-keeping and growing fruits and vegetables, situated in Gaby in the Lys Valley.
Acacia, chestnut, rhododendron and mixed mountain flower honeys are produced and vegetables (potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, courgettes, cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, French beans, lettuces, etc.) and small fruits (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, currants and blackberries) are grown. In the summer, these are sold fresh in the shop or transformed into jams, juices and other delicacies produced without using additives, preservatives or colourings in farm workroom.
Naturalys is also a holiday farm where you can taste sweet or salty snacks prepared daily with the extra-fresh raw material from the farm.

The spacious outdoor area is equipped with a wooden playhouse for the children, which contains a wooden toy kitchen and all what children need to play.
Vegetable gardens, fields of potatoes and small fruit patches surround the farm, which is entirely flat ground, and can easily be visited.
Inside there is a television room to project videos and photos and a guest bathroom.

Visit to the farm with product tasting

The farm owners love to tell people about their work to all those want to get to know the life of mountain farmers, the fascinating world of honey and the life of bees.
Cost of the visit + tasting per person: 16 € adults, 10 € children 4-12 years, free for children under 3 years.
Number of visitors required for the visit: min. 8 paying visitors.
Duration of the visit : about 1 ½ hours.

Educational workshops

Workshops are organised for schools and summer centres tailored to the needs, interest and age of the children.

How to get there

Exit the Torino-Aosta motorway at Pont-Saint-Martin; follow signs to Gressoney for around 15 km. The farm has a large car park, but it is also possible to park in an unattended, public car park situated a few metres from the farm. There is a bus stop of the Pont-Saint-Martin / Gressoney line managed by V.I.T.A.