Granja Farm is a small organic farm founded in 2015, based in the mountains around Chiomonte
(Province of Turin), in the Upper Susa Valley.
Here, we preserve and we defend forms of knowledge, experience and sharing, as well as seeds and
stories.
These seeds and stories are those of resistance, a resistance that has brought us from many parts of
Italy to this valley in order to oppose the construction of the new Turin-Lyon railway line, a harmful
and pointless infrastructural project.
In this farm we exist, we resist, and we create. We do this by salvaging ancient vineyards and by
nurturing them; by replanting and growing local varieties of wine in the many steep terraces that
line the sides of these mountains; by placing beehives in the forests and the fields; by cultivating
orchards and keeping livestock - including chickens, geese, goats, donkeys and horses - in freedom;
by picking apples from neglected groves, and by providing hospitality to friends and volunteers from
across the world. Ours is an experiment of human evolution together with nature.

Vineyards
Some have called winegrowing in this valley a 'heroic' form of agriculture. We prefer to call it
Viticoltura di Resistenza, Resistant Viticulture.
In the Upper Susa Valley, vines are often planted on terraces that are completely inaccessible for
motor vehicles. Salvaging these vineyards has been - and still is - a collective practice that takes place
among the age-old dry-stone walls, an encounter between different forms of knowledge and of
experience.
Our resistance happens as we prune the vines and clean our vineyards, as we set up new poles and
plant new vines, as we fasten the fruit heads with threads of willow, and as we pick the grapes from
these ancient vineyards.
With no SO2 added at any point of the winemaking process, ours can be considered an artisan wine
produced following a natural process, one that is based only on the work of indigenous yeast and on
our own maintenance of the vines through organic and sustainable methods.