It is a story of entrepreneurship essentially all female, the one that sees the agricultural company “La Ranocchiaia” in San Casciano Val di Pesa, in Tuscany, as its protagonist. In fact, the activity is carried on – especially in these weeks of olive harvesting and pressing – by a team of seven women, with an average age of just over 31 years.
At the top is Judyta Tyszkiewicz, Polish by birth but Tuscan by adoption, who left her job as a dentist's assistant and founded Ranocchiaia in 2012 together with her husband Gian Luca Grandis, who in the meantime has separated from the company and today travels the world doing consultancy in the oil sector. Along with her, the rest of the team is made up of women: Natalia (restaurateur and mother of a 5-month-old baby), Sofia (a student of Agriculture), Emilia (two children aged 8 and 16), Donatella (a 19-year-old son), Silvia (Gian Luca's sister) and Nicole, the aspiring actress who inherited her passion for extra virgin olive oil from her grandparents in Puglia.
It is a story of entrepreneurship essentially all female, the one that sees the agricultural company “La Ranocchiaia” in San Casciano Val di Pesa, in Tuscany, as its protagonist. In fact, the activity is carried on – especially in these weeks of olive harvesting and pressing – by a team of seven women, with an average age of just over 31 years.
At the top is Judyta Tyszkiewicz, Polish by birth but Tuscan by adoption, who left her job as a dentist's assistant and founded Ranocchiaia in 2012 together with her husband Gian Luca Grandis, who in the meantime has separated from the company and today travels the world doing consultancy in the oil sector. Along with her, the rest of the team is made up of women: Natalia (restaurateur and mother of a 5-month-old baby), Sofia (a student of Agriculture), Emilia (two children aged 8 and 16), Donatella (a 19-year-old son), Silvia (Gian Luca's sister) and Nicole, the aspiring actress who inherited her passion for extra virgin olive oil from her grandparents in Puglia.