Elena Norma Rava Lorena Roggero
The cultivation of the hunchback cardoon from Oca Divina
Eight years ago, Lorena Roggero began her collaboration at the family farm.
During the winter period, among other crops she produces the hunchback cardoon together with her brother Walter using the semi-mechanical technique with a plough for burying the cardoons.
This technique, which differs from the manual one only in the phase of hilling the plant and, partially, in that of covering it, is stipulated in the cardo gobbo's Production Specification for the Nizza Monferrato.
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Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Nizza Monferrato
Lorena Roggero
Date of birth: 07-05-1981
City: Acqui Terme
Profession: Farmer
Document by: Laura Bugliazzini Luca Ghiardo
Video by: Luca Ghiardo
Created: 23-10-2025
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