About Us
Landfriend is a platform that connects consumers with local producers.
We visually map and list local producers and eco-friendly products. By increasing producers' visibility,
we make it easy for consumers and businesses to find them.
We support short-chain eco-friendly production as the way forward to a more sustainable, local supply system. Through the platform, we bridge the gap between consumers and producers by facilitating interaction and fostering real live connection.
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Our story
During my childhood, Sundays and holidays were spent enjoying agricultural culinary traditions. My friends and family – parents, brother, aunts, aunts, uncles, cousins – went to our country houses for a day of cooking, eating and, for us children, playing.
But unfortunately, as we grew up we lost our connection to the land because our lives got busier and supermarkets started to take over the food supply. An increasing amount of land became uncultivated and was no longer producing food. When we became aware of this transition, we felt nostalgic about our nearly-lost culinary traditions.
So I started to look for the few authentic producers that continue to preserve local products, traditional processes, and cultures. I tasted the wine, olive oil, pasta, biscuits, jams, and other traditional eco-friendly products in regions across Europe. Through this experience, I re-connected with our rich cultural heritage. I discovered the stories – and secrets – of all these local producers and realized that very similar traditions have been handed down in my own family as well.
I recall many precious memories in the kitchen. My grandmother transforming humble flour and eggs into pasta, my aunts turning freshly picked strawberries into jam and my grandfather bottling wine with love.
As I wanted to relive those magical moments on the local producers, I spent many evenings with friends savouring traditional products I collected from various artisanal producers.
The culinary traditions each family production represents are unique. That’s something we unanimously agreed upon during those evenings. We got to share those delicacies, but fortunately, we aren’t the only ones. Those producers still produced for people from all over the region.
“Ingredients and land are an important part of our tradition”, I remember my grandfather saying. “I have always relied on local products, and since I know each individual producer personally – quality is not a problem.”
I realized that any producer’s delicacies are not only created through love and unique processes but foremost with local products made through centuries-old traditions and craftsmen engaged in their trade.
This is why I started LANDFRIEND. So that both you and I can take a journey across Europe through the products in our houses. We get to explore rich traditions through its authentic productions, but also through the history and loving recipes of local producers that maintain and care for the land as our best friend.
Lorenzo Mari
Founder of Landfriend
