Montone Agroalimentare 2.0

Montone Agroalimentare 2.0 is a project to promote products from the short supply chain of the territory of Montone through events, tastings, tests and meetings on the topic of nutrition, healthy eating and on the specificities of local products.

Montone Agribusiness 2.0 is a project aimed at promoting typical local productions, funded by the Umbria Region as part of Rural Development Program 2014-2022, Measure 16.4.2, which finances “Local promotional activities related to the development of short supply chains and local markets.”

Objective

The main objective of the project is to develop the knowledge, promotion and dissemination of local products by interacting with the entire network of tourist events that the territory is able to offer in the cultural, recreational or convivial fields, and enhancing the seasonal character of the products themselves.
Montone Agribusiness promotes local products And the local companies who produce them, through events, tastings and tastings and activities guided by industry experts and the producers themselves.

Montone Agroalimentare 2.0 was born from the collaboration between the Town of Montone, 20 farms of the territory that have joined the project.

Through the proposed promotional strategies, the partnership aims to:

• ‍Enhance the production of local products through participation in dedicated events that bring potential demand closer to supply;
• ‍Promote the 'culture of quality products' at the local level, illustrating the merits, nutritional values and unique characteristics of the products themselves;
• ‍Encourage the consumption and purchase of seasonal and local products zero km products.

Planned activities

As part of the project Montone Agroalimentare 2.0 It is planned to organize free tasting and testing activities during events promoted in the area. Participants in the various initiatives will have the opportunity to discover and savor the typical local products offered by the network of partner producers of the project.

The events

• Tastings during the “Village Saturdays” (August and September 2023)
• Tastings during the “Forest Festival” 2023
• Vicoli Food ed. Autumnal
• Tastings during the Christmas events “Montone Magic of a Village”
• Vicoli Food ed. spring
• “Food at arm's time” — Meetings and tastings as part of the international conference Braccio da Montone, Braccio e le Arti nel Medioevo
• Romantic Night (June 2024)
• Aperitif with the producer — at participating restaurants