date:Nov 30, 2016
Febronia Franca Vespa (in the photo) and husband Carmelo Di Salvo inherited their passion for cultivation thanks to their families' blood orange growing tradition and founded Azienda Agricola Vespa.
Their oranges, which hold the PGI mark, are cultivated in the area between Palagonia, Lentini and Mineo.
Our parents, and our grandparents before them, had the courage to plant citrus groves where there was no water. They had to dig wells by hand. They took their chances with an apparently arid yet