Authentic Food & Wine Tours, Cooking Classes in Puglia with locals

Trough Terra Che Vive we booked the ''Dairyman for a day: mozzarella and burrata making class''

It was a great experience and well guided by Marco. All steps within the process are shown whereafter you can try it yourself. The tasting afterwards is good and abundant.

We booked the dairy farm tour and pasta making class as a group of six, including 4 adults and 2 children, aged 8 and 5. I was looking for an experience that the children could really get involved in and enjoy and this definitely fit the bill. The tour took place at a beautiful Masseria in the countryside near Martina Franca where we were greeted by Marco and first taken to a wildflower meadow while he explained a bit about the Masseria and what we would be doing that day and we got to take some photos. We then moved on to a tour of the dairy, where we saw the cheese being made and were given some to taste. It was very interesting (and delicious!) and one of the cheese makers even made the cheese into little animal shapes for the children's amusement! Next we had the opportunity to make and shape our own pasta, and were shown how to make several different shapes including orecchiette, cavatelli and more. We may not have been the most skilled at making the shapes but we all had lots of fun trying and the children loved this part of the experience, and with support we were all able to make some passable shapes in the end! We were then given our fresh pasta to take away and cook later on. After we had finished with the pasta, we were given a tour of the farm where we were able to meet the various animals, including the dairy cows, calves, donkeys, deer, ostriches, geese, dogs, cats and more. We were also shown the trulli on site, and there were a few pieces of play equipment for the children to enjoy too. We were told to take as long as we would like to explore and then come back to the masseria when we were ready for lunch. The lunch was both amazing and very generously portioned! There were several appetisers - meats, cheeses, bread, a tomato foccacia, some fried zucchini, some little meatballs, all delicious. This was followed by a pasta dish, and then a traditional dessert with pastry and cream, plus water, wine and coffee were included too. All of the staff were very friendly and pleasant. We really enjoyed the experience and would absolutely recommend it with or without children, though if you are looking for a tour like this to do with children I do think this is probably one of better ones to choose. The whole tour was very engaging and enjoyable, and Marco was on hand to help and explain things throughout. A great experience for our family.

Passeggiata di due ore su cavallo. A partire dalla prenotazione fino alla fine dell'esperienza abbiamo ricevuto un servizio eccellente, comunicazione ed elasticità nel fornire l'esperienza di livello altissimo. La professionalità, la velocità e la gentilezza di Marco hanno reso l'organizzazione dell'esperienza assolutamente immediata. Arrivati al maneggio il titolare ci ha spiegato perfettamente cosa avremmo fatto. Segue una passeggiata bellissima in uliveti, campagna e in riva al mare. Ti insegnano le basi per portare il cavallo e fare in modo che tu ti senta in sintonia con lui. I cavalli sono dolcissimi, super puliti e regalano un'esperienza assolutamente piacevole. Lo consiglio a tutti e consiglio anche di affidarsi totalmente a "Terra Che Vive" per avere un servizio impeccabile.

Excellent! We had a wonderful extra virgin olive oil tasting at Savoia - it was a special treat to taste olive oil from the ancient and majestic 800 year old trees we learned so much and the owners Giorgio and Rosaria are special people, keeping this incredible tradition alive so we can all enjoy such an extraordinary product

Nice tour, very friendlty staff! would have been nice if the mozarella maker would let us try to make some.

Un addio al nubilato da ricordare con gli aneddoti di Nonna Checchina.
Ambiente accogliente, immerso nella natura e nei trulli.
Organizzazione impeccabile.
Consiglio vivamente per chi ha voglia di conoscere le tradizioni culinarie del nostro territorio e vuol trascorrere una giornata in natura.
Garzie Marco, grazie Terra che Vive!