September · Villages of the Italian farming tradition
For local growers cultivating the traditional peppa varieties (sweet peppers and chilli peppers of the Italian farming tradition), pro loco and organising committees running the festival days, Slow Food presidia and consortia protecting the traditional varieties, schools and didactic labs taking children to discover the farming tradition, restaurateurs and trattorias offering traditional dishes, food-and-wine and tourist sponsors of the festival — branded totes for the festival audience, limited-edition jars of preserve with coordinated packaging, coordinated giveaways for tastings, gifts for twinned-festival delegations, coordinated materials for schools attending guided tours.
The Sagra della Peppa, as it is celebrated in several Italian regions, evokes the harvest of the peppa (sweet peppers and chilli peppers of the farming tradition), preserve-making, the production of sottoli, pesti and sauces, and closes with the distribution of preserves at the small markets and with the community’s long-table meals that bring together growers, families and visitors. It is a tradition spread across Italy, especially in regions where the cultivation of the peppa has a deep history (Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Toscana, Lazio, Campania, Calabria, Sicilia, Sardegna) and where the presidia and consortia of the farming tradition are most active.
For growers, pro loco, Slow Food presidia, consortia, schools, restaurateurs and sponsors of the Sagra della Peppa, Corp-Merch.IT runs the full chain from its Italian operating hub: receipt of master artwork files from the grower, pro loco, Slow Food presidium or consortium (AI, EPS, PDF/X-4 with CMYK images at 300 dpi, FOGRA39 colour profile for print, Pantone profile for textiles), adaptation for the various customisation techniques (water-based screen print on GOTS-certified organic cotton for staff apparel during demonstrations, sublimation print on cotton for festival-audience totes, computerised embroidery on cotton and linen for kitchen-work aprons, hot stamping on FSC-certified paper for festival booklets and peppa variety cards, laser engraving on chestnut wood for branded jar labels, screen print on Faenza ceramic for tasting bowls), physical pre-production sample with Pantone colour map and technical sheet, production on Italian supply chains (Como textiles for coordinated apparel cotton, Tuscan organic cotton for totes, Maniago steel for metalwork, Faenza ceramic for tasting bowls, Collodi wood for didactic kit objects and jar labels, Fabriano paper for festival booklets) and delivery to the village of the sagra, the didactic orchard, the pro loco’s consolidation warehouse or the Slow Food presidium’s venue on slots confirmed by the organising committee.
The grower during the preserve-making demonstrations wants coordinated apparel and kitchen-work accessories: GOTS-certified organic cotton shirt or linen blend with computerised embroidery of the grower’s logo, coordinated apron for kitchen work, durable fabric shopper, peaked cap for kitchen peak hours. The audience of the Sagra della Peppa days wants branded totes, limited-edition jars of preserve with coordinated packaging, small coordinated objects (magnets, bookmarks, illustrated postcards of country work), sauce testers and peppa spoons in wood or ceramic. Schools and didactic labs ask for didactic kits on the farming tradition (small wooden tools, illustrated booklets, mini didactic orchards). Restaurateurs and trattorias offering traditional dishes want coordinated gift kits with the sagra graphic, limited-edition jars of preserve for their own customers. Food-and-wine and tourist sponsors ask for coordinated giveaways for their tastings in the squares.
Most growers, pro loco and Slow Food presidia that run a merch programme for the Sagra della Peppa coordinate their operations from their own village or reference city, but launching a collection of coordinated apparel, branded totes or limited-edition jars of preserve requires a district supply chain that our hub can orchestrate on Italian territory. Como for apparel cotton, Scandicci for the leather of aprons and small leather goods, Maniago for steel and metalwork, Faenza for the ceramic of tasting bowls, Padova for the technical cartotecnica of slip cases, Fabriano for booklet paper, Collodi for the wooden objects of didactic kits and jar labels: the hub lets us consolidate the buyer’s artwork files, run a physical pre-production sample through Italian supply chains and ship the lot to the village of the sagra, the didactic orchard or the pro loco’s consolidation warehouse on a short courier slot, twenty-four to forty-eight hours from Italian territory. For programmes involving a twinned-sagra delegation (twinning among Sagras of the Peppa of different Italian regions) we handle bilingual materials (Italian and English at minimum) and, on request, full multilingual release with ISO 17100-aligned translations.
The Sagra della Peppa window is concentrated and must be planned backwards from the sagra calendar: festival set-up days that open the previous Friday, the orchard visits and processing demonstrations on Saturday, the guided tastings and workshops on Sunday, the community’s big long-table meal day on Monday and the festival close with the peppa small market. For growers and Slow Food presidia, the gap between graphic confirmation and the Saturday days’ opening is usually less than ten weeks, and any item that must be at the grower’s meeting point, at the didactic orchard or at the pro loco warehouse for the first day must be closed and shipped at least one calendar week before the sagra days. We work backwards from that moment: production must close two-three weeks before the Sagra della Peppa days; the courier slot must be booked for the Wednesday or Thursday of the festival week; the addressee list must be finalised at the same time as the days’ calendar confirmation; edition-specific details (year, edition number, celebrated peppa varieties) add only a small reprint to an already-produced neutral graphic base.
For Italian clients with a VAT number the invoice is issued through the Sistema di Interscambio (SdI) of the Agenzia delle Entrate with the standard 22% VAT applied in EUR; reduced rates of 4%, 5% or 10% available on the product categories that allow them (publishing, art objects, farming-tradition typical products, traditional preserves). Reverse charge for intra-EU buyers registered in VIES, split payment for public administration entities, recipient code or PEC address for electronic delivery of the invoice. For clients subject to CSRD reporting (D.Lgs. 125/2024, transposing Directive (EU) 2022/2464) we provide a sustainability sheet per order with a Scope 3 CO₂e estimate according to the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain on the internal routes and from the indicated production supply chains.
GOTS-certified organic cotton shirt or linen blend with computerised embroidery of the grower’s logo, coordinated apron for kitchen work, durable fabric shopper, peaked cap for kitchen peak hours, metal pin for the larger restaurateur apparel rosters.
Limited-edition jars with coordinated packaging and hot stamping of the grower’s or Slow Food presidium name, FSC-certified paper labels for the traditional varieties, technical cartotecnica slip cases for traditional variety selections and protected-variety kits.
Faenza ceramic bowls, Tuscan organic cotton shoppers, Scandicci small leather goods, Maniago steel accessories, limited-edition sauce testers and peppa spoons, packaging coordinated with the farming-tradition brand colours.
Small Collodi wooden tools (palette, peppa spoons, mini didactic orchards), illustrated booklets on the farming tradition on FSC-certified paper, coordinated shopper, bilingual diary, traditional variety kits in small jars, limited-edition local-tradition product.
Before starting production, artwork, quantities per addressee, packaging and the named on-site recipient must all be confirmed. The final delivery address is defined against the sagra calendar issued by the pro loco or organising committee: the village of the sagra often has narrow access roads and regulated vehicle gates; the didactic orchard has its own delivery hours that must be coordinated with orchard contacts; the Slow Food presidium’s venue has loading windows coordinated with presidium contacts; the pro loco’s consolidation warehouse is often off-centre and must be reached with suitable couriers. Historic-village ZTL areas condition courier access, which is why most teams opt for early morning deliveries or after 19:30, when heavy vehicles are readmitted into ZTL areas of the village.
For an Italian programme routed through the national hub, shipments are consolidated and dispatched to the village of the sagra, to the didactic orchard, to the Slow Food presidium’s venue or to the pro loco’s consolidation warehouse on twenty-four to forty-eight hour windows via BRT, SDA, GLS or DHL Express Italy, by appointment for venues that require phone notice. For programmes above 1,000 pieces we offer appointment delivery with phone notice and, on request, on-site set-up by our staff at the didactic orchard or at the pro loco warehouse. For materials requiring controlled-environment conditions (preserves, jars, royal jelly, traditional products) we coordinate climate-controlled transport with specialised carriers. For didactic kits bound for schools and for welcome kits bound for twinned-sagra delegations we handle multilingual labelling (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish) and tamper-evident packaging with a bilingual packing list addressed to the recipient.
Eight to ten weeks is the safest window for GOTS-certified organic cotton coordinated apparel, festival-audience shoppers, tasting giveaways and school didactic kits. Tighter programmes are possible only after stock, print methods and access to the sagra village have all been confirmed.
Only after the pro loco or organising committee has confirmed the loading window, gate access and the named consignee. For limited-edition jars and traditional variety slip cases specific packaging conditions must be agreed.
Yes. Coordinated apparel for growers, limited-edition jars for Slow Food presidia, coordinated tasting giveaways and school didactic kits can be packed and labelled as separate lots, tied to each audience and to each delivery point.
No. Corp-Merch.IT is an independent external B2B supplier that helps growers, pro loco, Slow Food presidia, consortia, schools, restaurateurs and sponsors prepare their own merch for the Sagra della Peppa days. It does not organise, sponsor or represent the pro loco or the organising committees of the individual Sagras of the Peppa.
Corp-Merch.IT is an independent external B2B supplier to the growers, pro loco, Slow Food presidia, consortia, schools, restaurateurs and organising committees of the Sagras of the Peppa. This page helps teams prepare their own merch for the Sagra della Peppa; it does not represent the pro loco, organising committees, protection consortia or any sponsor of the festival.