Hombre Farm
With his entrepreneurial spirit and with the help of his brothers, Umberto Panini bought the “finca” of his dreams: 30 cows and 30 hectares of land, calling it by his Venezuelan nickname ‘Hombre’. Umberto, obsessed with stickers, volleyball, and Parmesan cheese, built Hombre Farm as a closed cycle organic farm, where everything is grown, created, and developed from within. Not only do the animals live a much more relaxed life, but the organic parmesan shows the fruits of his labor. Of the 500 or so artisan producers only around 4% are organic and one of those is Hombre Modena , now run by Matteo Panini, the son of Umberto.