Sold out in many farmhouses on the island at Easter. Farmers' menus and large open spaces in contact with nature, a return with a bang after the Easter closure of 2020 and 2021 due to Covid.
In particular, the closure of last year, Coldiretti Sardinia recalls, "was a cold shower, because two weeks were closed just around Easter", causing losses that Coldiretti has estimated at one million for the 150 Campagna Amica / Terranostra farmhouses in Sardinia.
Losses that added to those of the Christmas holidays just ended and throughout 2020, when the presences in the approximately 900 Sardinian farmhouses dropped by 44% compared to 2019, according to Coldiretti Sardegna elaborations on data from the Regional Tourism Observatory, registering 82 thousand presences compared to at 146,500 the year before.
Now the aim is to improve the 2019 season, the culmination of a positive trend that has been going on for years is that it was abruptly interrupted by the pandemic.
"Almost all of the customers - underlines the president of Terranostra Michelina Mulas - are Sardinians, families and groups of friends who in many cases also decide to stay overnight and spend the weekend and Easter Monday on the farm, also taking advantage of the many services that today offer many Campagna Amica structures such as walks in the woods, the opportunity to visit and experience the life of a farmer with the laboratories of pasta, milk and all the activities that take place on farms ".
(Unioneonline / L)
