Ingredients Before Recipes: A Farm-to-Table Approach in Sicily

At our farm, recipes are never the starting point — ingredients are. Menus are always linked with a living ecosystem where cooking begins in the soil and follows seasons, harvests, and preservation.

Italian cuisine cannot exist without ingredients, and any sincere search for authenticity requires an active relationship with them.

This page is the gateway to our agri-culinary approach: ingredient-centered Mediterranean cooking rooted in Sicilian rural tradition and cucina povera — humble, essential dishes shaped by necessity, knowledge, and respect for raw materials. From the field to the kitchen, we focus on what we grow, what the land offers, and how simple preparations can express place, season, and culture.

Experiencing the farm

If you are in Sicily, you can experience this directly with us: farm-to-table meals and small-group cooking experiences inspired by what is available in the fields and in the pantry.

This agricultural approach naturally continues in our recipes, where ingredients remain at the center and cooking becomes a way to preserve, respect, and share what the land provides.

Visiting our farm is not only a tour — it is a continuation of the same philosophy that drives our recipes and our agricultural work. When you walk among the trees, harvest what is ripe, smell the soil, and taste food from the very fields you have seen, you are experiencing the same ingredient-first journey that informs every recipe we share on Three Farms Island.

Sicilian gastronomy, shared

Let us welcome you to our island.

In 2004, we decided to give our family’s abandoned lands a new lease of life and embarked on a mission to turn them back into working farms. Since then, we have been living here, meeting people and naturally sharing experiences around our food and drinks produced on our land.

We would love to share here in the Noto area, southeastern Sicily, our experiences and show you what we are doing here: which herbs are ready now, how to prepare them, the best time for harvest, how to graft fruit trees on wild roots, and the natural selection process in action in our fields.

Meals are prepared using ingredients grown on the farm or sourced locally, respecting seasonality and traditional preservation methods. The menu changes naturally, guided by harvests rather than fixed recipes.

Guests are invited to slow down, observe, and taste food as an expression of agricultural work — simple dishes that tell the story of the land.

Join us for a seasonal menu that offers a true taste of Sicily.

We offer two experiences: Food Experience and Cooking Class. Both begin with a short walk through the farm to see what we grow, sometimes harvesting ingredients, followed by time in the kitchen or at the table to prepare or taste our seasonal menu.