Società Agricola Limbara

It all starts with the forest, with 8000 hectares of owned cork oak stands between Sardinia and Tuscany. Through our work, we preserve and protect the delicate balance of the environmental ecosystem, with periodic maintenance work on the cork oaks and undergrowth.

Between May and August, our skilled workers, custodians of an ancient art, immerse themselves in the harvesting of cork, a very important step known as ‘cork bark harvesting’.
With a simple axe, they strip the cork from the tree. Afterwards, the cork is stored in large open-air yards where the atmospheric agents help and favour the so-called seasoning, which is indispensable for the subsequent processing stages.

The Forest Management (FM) Certification awarded to Società Agricola Limbara ARL ensures that the forest is managed according to strict environmental, social and economic standards. These standards are based on the 10 Principles and 70 Criteria for Responsible Forest Management (Principles & Criteria, P&C), defined and updated by FSC® with the participation of all stakeholders.

Currently, there are four FSC® Forest Certification areas, three of which are located in Sardinia and one in Tuscany. More specifically, in Sardinia there is the cork oak stand ‘Lu Canniscioni’, located in the locality of Baldu, countryside of the Municipality of Tempio Pausania, extended for 99.30 ha; the cork oak woodland in the locality of ‘Montesu’, countryside of the Municipality of Tempio Pausania, extended for 24.3 ha; the cork oak stand ‘Monti di la Jesgia’, countryside of Calangianus, extended for 45.39 ha. Finally, in Tuscany, the certified area is the Bagnolo cork oak forest, located in the ‘Campo Orlandi’ locality, covering a total area of 168.91 ha.