Food & Wine - visit the producers: Gaby

NaturaLys was founded in 2008 when Alessia and Aldo decided to purchase 4 beehives to produce honey for the family. Since then the number of hives has been growing exponentially! … 8, 12 and now over 20! Since 2012, the farm has also cultivated vegetables without using chemical pesticides, the emphasis being placed on quality instead of quantity, and red fruits, which are transformed in jams and other delicacies.

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, especially those who live in the city and want to get to know the life of mountain farmers and 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 and 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, especially those who live in the city and want to get to know the life of mountain farmers and 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; it is also possible to park in an unattended, public car park situated a few metres from the farm. A few metres from the farm there is a bus stop of the Pont-Saint-Martin / Gressoney line managed by V.I.T.A.