01 — Cooking
Kneading together
Bread, fresh pasta, pizza and home recipes. You learn with your hands and eat all together.
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Castelgrande — Basilicata — since 2026
Community
experiences
Cooking, garden-therapy and sewing workshops, plus a personal chef service. An invitation to slow down.
Workshops for every agePersonal chef across ItalyThe Path of the Selvatici
ScrollOur why
Rebuilding the bond between people, land and food.
We promote awareness, wellbeing and healthy food choices through concrete, shared experiences: hands in the flour, hands in the soil, hands on the thread.
We were born in 2026 in Basilicata, from the meeting of Lucanian and Tuscan roots and a shared vision founded on love for the land, cooking and local traditions.
We champion manual know-how, seasonality and local cultures, creating experiences that join personal wellbeing with community growth.
The Project
Manual know-how, seasonality, community
Based in Castelgrande, I Selvatici run playful, recreational workshops for every age group, dedicated to cooking, garden therapy and sewing.
Every activity is designed to foster togetherness, pass on traditions and recover sustainable practices rooted in the territory.
2026
Founded, in Basilicata
3
Workshops: cooking, garden, sewing
All Italy
Available nationwide
Every gesture is a handover: whoever learns today will tell the story tomorrow.
About us
Two roots, one kitchen
Lucanian and Tuscan roots meeting around a wooden table. We bring our travels, our encounters and our grandmothers’ memory into the kitchen, and give it back as an experience to live together.
Valentina Di Carlo
Founder
Lorenzo Staderini
Founder & chef
The Workshops
Playful and recreational, for every age
Families, groups of friends, schools and associations, companies. Every path adapts to the group and the season.
02 — Garden therapy
Hands in the soil
Sowing, tending and harvesting as a wellbeing practice. The garden’s rhythm sets the rhythm of the day.
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03 — Sewing
Thread and patience
Mending, embroidery and small objects: slow gestures that come in handy and teach repairing instead of replacing.
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Your table, our story
Gastronomic experiences that blend influences gathered through travel and cultural encounters with a deep respect for Italian culinary tradition.
Seasonal produce, local identities and conviviality: every tasting becomes a moment of storytelling and sharing. In Basilicata and nationwide.
The Path of the Selvatici
A network of gardens, kitchens and communities
We want to connect different territories, promoting traditions, authentic relationships and shared wellbeing. A path built one stop at a time.
Gardens
Cultivated land that becomes an open-air classroom.
Kitchens
Tables where you learn by doing, and eat together.
Community
People who recognise each other and come back, season after season.
Upcoming dates
Limited places — confirmed by phone or WhatsApp.
Date to be set
Garden therapy — spring
Sowing and tending the garden, for families and groups
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What people say
My daughter kneaded for three hours and never got bored.
A dinner that felt like a story: every dish had one.
We brought the class and they went home talking about seasonality.
Take I Selvatici home
Aprons, bags and packaging: our identity travels with those who join us.
Cotton tote bag
Chef jacket
Takeaway packaging
Get in touch
Tell us who you are and what you would like to do: a workshop, a dinner, team building or a stop on the Path. We reply on WhatsApp or by phone.
Mon—Sat, 9:00—19:00. For groups and schools, a call works best.
Operating base
Via Marconi, 21
85050 Castelgrande (PZ)
Basilicata, Italy
Where we work
Basilicata and the whole country, on request.
Administration
VAT 02208410767
community experiences — © 2026 I Selvatici