La Pulledraia del Podere Montegrappa

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We had dinner with meat, for 6 days! .. the alternative was just cheese .. x 6 days even though, in the book, had been warned that some of us would not eat meat. However, the kitchen was not very Tuscan, never cooked steak Florentine Tuscany or something .. We were reprimanded by gestrice have breakfast at 9.15 because it was too late (?????? on vacation?? To me all year that I get up at 6 ???), the kitchen could not wait (when site is shown on the wings breakfast until 10:30). No animal was brought up there, if not of chickens and a calf, and placed in a small fence with barbed wire! We have two cats impressed, impressive, starved, scrawny cats because, according to the managers must find food only in the country. Farm?? the only crop that we have seen the strawberries were all the rest was purchased. This was the only farm in a week where we made the cleaning yourself, XCE acquistandopure detergents as they say, the "real farm" is so .....

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Response of the Farm:

Dear Ms. Lucia

we regret that we have not found their own good and that we have found some drawbacks: you never stop to improve
However I would like to make some clarification in order to make clearer what we can offer, and what we can not offer.

At the farm we raise chickens, turkeys and rabbits. Are visible near the parking lot as it is easily verified. Therefore, eggs, chicken, turkey and rabbit are almost entirely produced by us.
We also have a flock of 50 sheep and lambs so we serve are all of our production. The wild sheep live in an enclosure of 14 hectares of pasture on our farm. Well come back and show what has not been able to see. The heifer that has seen the entry has been inserted into a particle of 4 hectares of land. The mandriolo (small enclosure) that you have seen is connected to the rest of the 4 hectares to be a bottleneck that is essential to capture the animal and allow the vet to be able to vaccinate safely. The particle is obviously intended for calves fenced with chestnut poles and barbed wire. I hope you never find yourself face to face with a calf Maremma without a sturdy fence in the middle. The calf was alone when she came because she was the only one from the herd of origin to have lost their mother. We got her just because they still had to be fed with the bottle and the company from which we feed her grip was a problem. She nursed my father 2 times a day throughout the summer.
It 'has already been achieved by a second heifer calves and soon other 2 instead were usually reared by their mothers.
On the farm we also have a garden that allows us to have vegetables and a little 'fruit. We have an olive grove and a vineyard and then produce oil and wine.
So who will we eat mainly vegetables and some meat fish that we have decided not to include in our menu because I do not have anything to do with our company.
Some days we serve local cheeses, mainly DOP Tuscan pecorino cheese we buy in the fen. Anyone who does not eat meat and communicates it to my mother prepares cheese or bean soups
You will not find the steak Florentine because as you know is very expensive and we can not imagine to offer the Florentine and still pay 20 euros which is the current ask price for the dinner.
I confirm that the time for breakfast from 8.30 to 10.30. If that day who opened the door of the hall at 8.30 did not want her to have breakfast at 9.15 am in the wrong and I regret it. But allow me to express doubt that things have taken place exactly like that.
Cats that have not impressed, but our cats are about a 2 to 30 cats running around. If we gave them something to eat there you will find them all, and 30 every day there. In fact some of our guests decided to bring someone home, and now there are more puppies around.
As for cleaning, as it is written on the site, we do only the final cleaning unless someone does not ask us to make her daily as she could have done. Paying the difference.
I hereby confirm that we will continue with this choice because we do not want to impose an additional cost at all and then raise prices. But we offer the service only to those who demand it and is willing to pay.
Soap and shampoo are not in the room but are given upon request as specified on the site. This is because we use packets of soap and shampoo organic 200ml (big ones) and then filling them back without producing recycle waste from landfills. It 'easy to talk to limit the ecological impact but then to be consistent and make real choices. The recycling of plastic containers of soap is a small concrete choice. Can like it or not.
So I can confirm that our farm is conducted with the criteria and choices in addition to promoting our products in general and more local products, strives to reduce the negative impact that our everyday actions inevitably produce in our country . And I can only hope that sooner or later we all undertake some 'more in this direction
I understand that this might not be appreciated by everyone, but we go the same way always trying to improve thanks to the advice of our guests.

Sincerely yours

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I was 8 days with my husband and our dog and we were really well received. We had a great meal and the friendly Mr. Ippolito has directed a number of local routes (especially needed for an area unknown to us). Every piece of advice was invaluable and even the dog has been well received, not a small thing! I would recommend sicuramente.Paola
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I stayed two weeks in July with my wife and we were very good, relaxing - great food-processing very friendly owners - big room and fresh - what we were looking at the farmhouse.
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We stayed one night at Pulledraia but we were very happy. The rooms are large and clean. There are, however, due to the bed for our son because he was not ready. The simple dinner and this is fine but if there was there was nothing like the wild boar ... and then the lady was really rude by mistake when we sat down to dinner at the wrong place! I must say that if we return to Maremma, try another facility.
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Response of the Farm:

Dear Mrs. Rafanelli rings,

Thank you for your review: is that you learn from criticism and certainly not by the appreciation that in our case, fortunately, are numerous.
My feeling about his review is that the problem is all in the mismatch between expectations and reality. Although, who knows our website www.pulledraia.it, appreciates the clarity with which we have explained what will and what will not we. But, as you see, this is not always clear which preserves us from the mismatch I said above.

We come to condemn us things.
1) The bed in room was not done.
2) At dinner he ate wild boar ... and if she liked
3) My mother was rude when he noted that it was sitting in a different place from what we had assigned.

On the first point I confirm that this is so. Those who come to our farm will find the bed made, but not the bed. You'll find clean sheets to do so yourself.
You will find the room clean, but will not have the room cleaning daily, but weekly. To find a daily cleaning broom, mops and shovel to do for themselves.

On the second point does not confirm that we have a printed menu and then we do not store sauces, meat or other cells in the refrigerator as we do if we chose to work with as an a la carte restaurant. My mother's kitchen every day just what our small farm allows us to have fresh. Always serve an appetizer, first course, main course, dessert and our liquors. When someone does not eat anything or intolerances warns us before and always prepare food alternatives.
In our restaurant so the menu is determined daily on the basis of available ingredients.
But it seems to me that you have enjoyed the wild boar and the rest just says, and if I had not liked.

The third point I apologize if you think that my mother was rude to her. Allow me to invite you, however, only to realize that when you eat all together in 20 or 30 at the same table and the seats are preassigned to feel comfortable every time a guest of a small mistake can cause a disturbance to other guests or groups of guests.

Make good holiday
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