Rifugio Oltradige Al Roen - Überetscher Hütte

As you know, I am an old man and I belong to another era, so I think it is more appropriate to let Andrea and Martina talk about a sensitive topic that is very close to my young friend's soul. I will therefore take a break and leave you to your reading.

Talking about sustainability and environmental commitment is now established practice, nearly obligatory, to the point of bordering on rhetoric. We could fill these few lines with abstract and trite concepts, but we will get straight to the point instead, describing the small actions of good practices that we manage to put in place at the refuge, and we will naturally be happy to receive your advice on where we could possibly do better.

We believe it is right and important to turn to local producers, especially for everything related to fresh food. Cured meats, cheese, meat, fruit, vegetables, eggs and bread come from very nearby. This allows us to give value to the territory and the producers themselves, bringing to the table genuine, zero-kilometre food (or with a direct and very short supply chain).
On these products we have also managed to reduce the use of plastic packaging to zero: this type of merchandise is in fact always delivered in paper and cardboard packages or containers. This is unfortunately a little more difficult on large-scale retail articles but, even in this case, we always try to prefer products in non-plastic packaging.

Here is a list of our fresh food suppliers:

• Eggs from Azienda Agricola Bertoldi Stefano (Amblar, Val di Non)
• Meat and cold cuts from Butcher Macelleria Endrighi Silvano (Don, Val di Non)
• Meat and cold cuts from Butcher Metzgerei Pliger (Appiano South Tyrol)
• Bread  mainly homemade alternatively from Panificio F.lli Borzaga (Cavareno, Val di Non)
• Cheese from Latteria Sociale di Cavareno (Cavareno, Val di Non)
• Fruit and vegetables from La Bottega dell'Orto (Cavareno, Val di Non)