Empowering people to safeguard traditions deeply rooted in quality of life and sustainability.
Empowering people to safeguard traditions deeply rooted in quality of life and sustainability.
At the Tuscan Heritage Foundation, our mission is to preserve and promote Tuscany’s rich cultural heritage. We achieve this through educational programs, hands-on retreats, and artist residencies that connect people with the land and its traditions.
At the Tuscan Heritage Foundation, we develop interactive programs to share Tuscany's elegant vision of sustainability that has endured for millennia. This la dolce far niente culture has, ironically, produced some of the world’s most iconic landscapes, foods, culture, and products. Come and experience a home and landscape rooted in a history that can help solve for the future.
Offerings include:
• 7-day immersive cultural retreats
• Artist and writer residencies (2–4 weeks)
• Workshops in Italian heritage, Tuscan culinary traditions, agriculture, art and craft.
• Sustainable land stewardship & soil carbon practices.
Our programs are designed for cultural travelers, lifelong learners, and creative professionals seeking depth, inspiration, and connection to place.
A working heritage site in the heart of Tuscany originally restored by Remo Tani and Mirella Benvenuti.
We are renovating this historic villa just south of Florence to create:
• Accommodations for 8–10 guests
• A teaching kitchen for culinary heritage programs
• A restored orchard and food forest
• A pool and spring water cold plunge for wellness and restoration
• Accessible, beautiful spaces for learning and reflection
Good Things Pressed, written by the founder Daisy Carlson, explores Tuscany's rich history and traditions as well as its food, fashion and art, all of which have been refined under pressure.
The Tuscan Heritage Foundation was founded by Daisy Carlson. Her design and import company Daisy Arts Inc. specialized in traditional Italian crafts. She is an avid art historian and advocate for traditional practices in sustainable, perennial agriculture focused on historic Tuscan landscapes. In honor of the life and lessons taught to her by Remo Tani and Mirella Benvenuti, the original owners of the villa, she founded the Tuscan Heritage Foundation to create an authentic environment for travelers seeking connection to place and culture.
Offering includes:
7- night double occupancy
16 - Meals Traditional Fair
Workshops on Tuscan culinary traditions, agriculture, art and craft
Information on sustainable land stewardship & soil carbon practices
Daily hands on work practicum four hours labor, allows for time visit Florence and region by train.
September 2025 Date TBA $1700 per person ($300 single supplement)
Join The harvest.
Offering includes:
Olive harvesting and pressing.
7- night double occupancy
16 - Meals Traditional Fair
Workshops on Tuscan culinary traditions, agriculture, art and craft
Information on sustainable land stewardship & soil carbon practices.
Time to visit Florence and region by train. Traditional Tuscan fall meals. Go home with a liter of Olive oil and many fine memories.
November 1-7 $2800 per person ($300 single supplement)
Offering includes:
7- night double occupancy
16 - Meals Traditional Fair
Workshops on Tuscan culinary traditions, agriculture, art and craft
Information on sustainable land stewardship & soil carbon practices
Daily hands on work practicum four hours labor, allows for time visit Florence and region by train.
May 2026 Date TBA $1700 per person ($300 single supplement)
Offering includes:
7- night double occupancy
16 Meals Traditional Fair
Workshops on Tuscan culinary traditions, agriculture, art and craft
Information on sustainable land stewardship & soil carbon practices.
Daily hands on workshop & practicum.
Time visit Florence and region by train.
May 23 - 29 $3100 per person ($300 single supplement)
Offering includes:
7- night double occupancy
16 Meals Traditional Fair
Workshops on Tuscan culinary traditions, agriculture, art and craft
Information on sustainable land stewardship & soil carbon practices.
Daily hands on workshop & practicum.
Time visit Florence and region by train.
June 1-7 $3400 per person ($300 single supplement)
Offering includes:
7- night double occupancy
16 Meals Traditional Fair
Sculpt a Figure or portrait in clay
Five 3 hour sessions with a class model
Guided visit to Carrara and Florence
June 9 -16 $3400 per person ($300 single supplement)
Want to experience the delicious elegance of Tuscany's beautiful and sustainable traditions? Become a friend of the Tuscan Heritage Foundation and help us preserve the essence of La Dolce Vita.
Mill Valley, CA, USA and San Donato in Fronzano, Florence
