A day of family, land and supply chain in our fields.
There are days that do not really end when they are over.
They remain in the images, in the gestures, in the looks, in the words spoken while walking among the wheat ears or while stopping to watch an old harvester come back to life on the farmyard. For us at Molino De Vita, the Harvest Festival 2026 was one of those days.
On June 16, in Casalvecchio di Puglia, we once again opened the doors to our fields, our mill and our story. We did it together with Pastificio dei Campi, with whom we have been sharing a path for many years: a relationship that can no longer be described simply as a collaboration. That would be reductive. Because when time turns a working relationship into trust, respect and a shared vision, it means that relationship has become part of your identity.
This year, the Harvest Festival had an even deeper meaning. In 2026, Molino De Vita celebrates its 30th anniversary, and being all together, right in the places where everything begins, reminded us that this milestone does not belong only to a company. It belongs to a family, to a land, to those who sowed before us and to those who continue to carry this story forward today.
The presence of Grandfather Vincenzo was, once again, one of the strongest images of the day. He represents the living memory of our agricultural roots. Alongside him were Nicola, Francesca, Vincenzo and the entire Molino family: not only the De Vita family, but also all the people who work with us every day and who, on days like this, we feel even more deeply as part of the same story.
Sharing this moment with us were also Dr. Pasquale De Vita, Head of CREA Foggia, the President of the Province of Foggia, Giuseppe Nobiletti, and the Councillor for Tourism and Promotion of the Puglia Region, Graziamaria Starace. Their presence confirmed the attention and esteem surrounding the journey of Molino De Vita and a Harvest Festival that, year after year, continues to tell the story not only of a company, but of a territory, a supply chain and a community.
Seeing several generations together, in the same field, in front of the same wheat, moved us. Because, in the end, the Harvest Festival also serves this purpose: to remind us that our work does not begin with machines, silos or numbers, but with the land and with people.
Nicola De Vita expressed this well when speaking about the relationship with Giuseppe Di Martino and Pastificio dei Campi: “When a collaboration lasts this long, it means that it is not based only on commercial agreements. It is based on trust, respect and a shared way of looking at the supply chain. The presence of our children on this day tells exactly this: the desire to keep building something with solid roots and a future.”
Giuseppe Di Martino also captured the most authentic meaning of this bond: “To make great pasta, you need great semolina, but first of all you need people who believe in the same way of working. With the De Vita family, there is a real relationship, made of dialogue, esteem and responsibility towards a high-quality Italian supply chain.”
Then there were the fields. The wheat ears. The sound of threshing. The restored harvester. The conviviality of the table.
We also had fun. A lot.
The presence of Michele Monopoli brought to the day that spontaneity that usually comes through his videos, followed and viewed by so many people. This time, however, we were able to experience it first-hand. Michele lived the Festival with curiosity, simplicity and genuine participation. His compliments for our work, for our bond with the land and for the way we try to tell the story of the supply chain meant a lot to us, because they came naturally, without formality. As happens when someone who truly knows the land recognizes the value of those who respect it.
The Harvest Festival 2026 left us with one clear feeling: the awareness that quality is never just a technical matter. Quality comes from a choice, from a way of belonging to your land, from a sense of responsibility towards those who grow, those who transform and those who carry a supply chain forward.
For us, every harvest is this.
It is memory and work.
It is family and future.
It is wheat becoming semolina.
It is semolina becoming pasta.
It is a story that continues.
And it continues from here, from Casalvecchio di Puglia, with the same belief that has always guided us: we are farmers before being millers.