beekeeping nomadic
with 50.000.000 bees
OUR HISTORY
The company took its first steps in the 1970s when Aquilino Finocchio decided to take up the entrepreneurial idea of his grandfather, and start the business with just thirty-five hives together with his wife Elisa Carbonetti.
A passion immediately passed on to his son Luca, who has made beekeeping his life.
The mechanization of the business is due to Luca himself, who implemented it back in 1987 after a visit to some French beekeeping companies through the Associazioni Apicoltori Professionisti Italiani.
The radical renovation of the production system dates back to 1995, which Luca carried out with the installation of a semiautomatic chain for honey extraction and the transformation of hives from closed to net bottom and the palletization of hives.
In the present day, Apicoltura Luca Finocchio is a state-of-the-art company: modern honey processing machinery is the flagship of the plant renovated in 2013, where the store and company offices coexist alongside the honey extraction area.
Not far away are the premises used for the educational farm, with equipment that makes it possible to best accommodate guests young and old for an engaging experience.
the protagonists
Family, one love: beekeeping
Beekeper
Anna Carbonetti
Anna, Luca's wife, is the "right hand" of the company: she collaborates in the honey extraction and jarring phases, and contributes day after day to the success of Apicoltura Luca Finocchio.
General manager
Fabiana Finocchio
She is one of Luca's two daughters. Graduated in Business Economics, she continues the family business with enthusiasm. It deals with the sale and organization of all activities related to company life: from marketing to communication, through the educational farm and fairs.
Beekeper
Luca Finocchio
The "engine" of the company: he raises the bees, takes the hives from the company to the fields and brings them back full of honey, guides the honey extraction and jarring processes... Our honey is born above all from his passion, his expertise and his his forty years of experience.
FARM SALE POINT
In the Tornareccio store, it is possible to taste all the honeys and various products of Apicoltura Luca Finocchio, but also to admire a photo gallery, consult a small but well-stocked library and visit a museum corner dedicated to beekeeping in the past.
TORNARECCIO, THE HONEY CAPITAL
Tornareccio has always been the undisputed “Abruzzo’s honey capital”: a supremacy due to a beekeeping tradition that began in the first half of the 20th century, and today confirmed by the numerous companies active in the village, a honey production that is close to 10 percent of the national one, and the Tornareccio Regina di Miele (Queen of Honey) exhibition that in the last weekend of September attracts thousands of visitors also from outside the region.
These are significant numbers, considering that just under 2,000 inhabitants live in the village of medieval origins.
If a visit is certainly worthwhile to taste our honey, Tornareccio has other pleasant surprises in store, starting with the extraordinary open-air museum made of mosaics installed on the facades of houses: more than eighty masterpieces scattered throughout the village, depicting sketches by internationally renowned artists.
For the past ten years, thanks to the idea of our fellow townsman Alfredo Paglione, a patron and gallery owner, Tornareccio has also become the town of mosaics, where every year the summer contemporary art exhibition “A Mosaic for Tornareccio” is held to choose new works that the Gruppo Mosaicisti of Ravenna then transforms into as many mosaic works, and a successful Mosaic School in August.
Walking through squares, churches and alleys, you can come across mosaics depicting works by Fioroni, Galliani, Severini, Sassu, Calabria, Ceccobelli, Mattioli, Guccione, Modica, Sughi, Savinio, Licata, Giovannoni, Bulzatti and many others.
