[2] At the beginning of the 1990s he was the author of photos illustrating the popular religious traditions of central Sicily and created guides to Holy Week in the provinces of Caltanissetta and Enna.

Uses, customs, traditions and legends by Michele Alesso (1903) with letter of introduction from the bishop, preface created by Farina and Attilio Scimone and 16 color photographs on fine paper by the latter of the same number "vare" nissene.

[11][12] In June 2004 he rediscovered and took care to bring out of oblivion with a conference the Italian-American figure of Mario Savio, protagonist of the protest on the campus of University of California - Berkeley on 1 October 1964.

[13][14] In the same period Farina began to establish himself as a scholar of Sicilian pastry art and the popular traditions that this art implies: in 2003 «following the thread of ethno-anthropological research»[15] publishes the first edition of the essay Dolcezze di Sicily[16] and in 2004 and 2005 he hit the news for being among the protagonists who try to rediscover and reevaluate the tradition of Sicilian sweets of the so-called "festival of the dead" on 2 November with the Nissena event S-cultures of sugar .

In April 2006 in the pavilions of the Istitución Ferial of Monzón in Spain curated with the photographer Melo Minnella Semana Santa en Sicilia, exhibition of 50 images dedicated to the popular festivals of the Easter period in the various Sicilian provinces.

[30] The usual presentations of the book are related by well-known figures such as Vincenzo Consolo to Milano,[31][32] Livia Chiriotti in Bologna, and Rita Cedrini in Palermo.

It is the story of the famous Picchio pastry shop in Loreto and features the preface signed by Cardinal Angelo Comastri and texts by Andrea Bocelli and Iginio Massari.

[57][58] On 24 January 2024, together with a group of professionals from Caltanissetta, Farina founded the cultural association "Rosario Assunto" becoming its president and in this capacity announced a national school competition of philosophy videos dedicated to the third centenary of his birth by Immanuel Kant.