FarmHouse

The farmhouse was built around mid nineteenth century; apart from some recent renovations, the house has been this way since the late nineteenth century. Orazio Fatta della Fratta, father of Giancorrado, was quite an innovative farmer for his time and won a lot of awards for his wheat (in the past Sicily was the most important Italian producer of cereals). San Giorgio is now the family home of Giancorrado and Fabiola Fatta della Fratta, who live both in San Giorgio and in Palermo.

Organic agriculture today is a way of life because it aims to produce good food from a balanced soil, to use crop rotations and to not overwork the soil because you want your impact on the environment to be as low as possible. So do we. In 1994 we started the conversion of the farm to organic cultivations and today we produce, only with organic method, under the supervision of Ecogruppo Italia. Each season has its own beauty throughout the year: in San Giorgio everything is green until the end of May; in June until mid July everything is golden because there is an abundance of wheat. In August temperatures are usually high and the season is very dry; in the winter sometimes there is snow and everything is white and luminous.


Antico Feudo San Giorgio is made up of 14 independent accommodation solutions, set around a landscaped courtyard. Our current animals are Martina, a six years old donkey from Ragusa, her friend Giovanni another donkey, Occhi verdi, our pussy cat with a lot of kittens (Martina and Occhi Verdi love to be petted), several sheep with theirs lambs, some chickens and geese and a herd of marchigiana (an italian race of cows). We are seeking to minimize waste by recycling glass, paper and plastic. For the restaurant we mainly use all our own products (hard wheat, olive oil, grapes, red and white wine, vegetables, honey) and, if this is not possible, we use local suppliers and environmentally friendly products. We provide visitor information packs on local walks and fauna and flora indigenous to our site.