produttori — Filandari · Calabria
In the hinterland of Vibo Valentia, along the road climbing toward Tropea, Filandari is home to one of Calabria's most deeply rooted agri-food cooperatives. Since 1980, Lascala Food has worked this stretch of land with its typical vocation, carrying forward a supply chain rooted in the hilly landscape.
The rows that mark the hills of Vibo Valentia speak of an ancient vocation: that of a land able to turn collective labour into product. Lascala Food was born here, in 1980, as a cooperative response to a territory rich in raw materials and farming knowledge, carried forward from generation to generation along these country roads.
The typical products of Calabrian tradition are at the heart of the business: Lascala Food operates in an area that for centuries has fed communities and local markets with the fruits of its soil. The cooperative, based in the locality of Iannacci along the provincial road 17 toward Tropea, has guarded this agri-food heritage for over four decades.
Ageing is the time a product takes to become itself. For a cooperative like Lascala Food, active for more than forty years in the province of Vibo Valentia, this principle is not technique but identity: the ability to safeguard, to wait, and to deliver to the market what the land of Vibo Valentia knows how to express.
The page traces forty years of Calabrian agri-food cooperation in detail: the story, the products, the territory that Lascala Food has safeguarded since 1980.
