Masseria Dauna

Masseria Dauna is a working farm in Lucera, in the Daunia hills of northern Puglia. It was started in 2001 by the Pozzuto sisters, who chose to carry on their parents' rural tradition, following the seasons and the cycles of nature. It is still a women-run business today.

The tomatoes are dry-farmed: grown with little or no irrigation, so the plants root deep and the fruit concentrates its sugars and flavor. For more than twenty years they have been cultivated without pesticides or other chemicals.

Picking and processing happen by hand and fast, within about three hours of harvest, and the jars hold nothing but tomatoes, with no additives. Whole peeled tomatoes, datterini, spaccatelle and passata: simple, bright and full of the Puglia summer.