OW Elements

Visit

Open during harvest, and only then

Six weeks a year the shop is open and there is fruit to buy. The rest of the year there is genuinely nothing here to see.

Opening hours

The farm shop opens only during the harvest window.

Thursday
15:00–19:00
Friday
15:00–19:00
Saturday
09:00–18:00

Harvest runs late June – early August. Exact opening and closing dates move by a week or two each year with the season — check before travelling.

Finding us

Via delle Serre 12
20080 Ambrosio (MI)
Italy

Ambrosio is a short drive from Milan. There is parking at the gate for a handful of cars. The last stretch is a farm track — passable in anything, but slow.

Ripe lychees on the branch in the orchard at OW Elements

What to expect

A working farm in its busiest six weeks

  • Fruit sold by the kilo

    Cut that morning, still on the panicle, in whichever of the two is ready that week. Bring a box or a bag — we do not have much packaging and would rather not use it.

  • Taste before you buy

    There is always something open on the counter. The two cultivars are genuinely different from each other and most people arrive not knowing they have a preference.

  • The houses, if we are free

    Not a scheduled tour, and not a promise. If it is quiet and someone can walk you through, they will. In the middle of picking, they cannot.

  • No café, no shop beyond the fruit

    There is nowhere to eat here and nothing else to buy. Ambrosio and the surrounding villages have both, five minutes away.

Coming as a group

Groups of more than about eight need to be arranged in advance — the shop is small and during picking there is heavy traffic in and out of the yard. Schools, growers' associations and horticulture students are welcome outside the harvest window too, when there is more time to actually explain what is going on.

Buying for a restaurant or shop

Trade orders work differently: we agree quantities before the season starts, because the crop is finite and it is allocated by the time picking begins. If you want fruit for a kitchen or a counter this year, the conversation needs to happen in spring, not in July.

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