Smarties.biohas an international name but all-Italian roots; it is a young seed company, asare its founders, a group of professionals from the agricultural world byfamily tradition and studies. The flagship sector is geneticresearch in horticulture, as well as the fundamental activities of recovery,protection, preservation and distribution of local nativevarieties, combining tradition with innovation in order to make them suitablefor the modern market. Safeguarding the enormous wealth of typical Italianlocal varieties, protecting and growing the organic sector, and investing inmodern urban agriculture are, for Smarties.bio, values and challenges for aninnovative agriculture open to the future.