La storia della Fattoria

In the education program, very strict and formal, planned by my parents, it was contemplated that a month a year, in September, I lived in the country with a lot of freedom also doing what was forbidden for the rest of the year to press the grapes with their feet, "swim" for hours in a large courtyard covered with warm corn threshed and left to dry under the sun, take the net with three fish in a trench, building a pit close to home and then having to fill with water every half 'hours to keep fish alive and standing guard against cats and birds, make me fall, in a very hot day, with the help of a young friend, in a well sitting on a bucket, to be a little cool (though this time I have found when I took it over and over! Now all the wells have safety covers!), eating a sandwich on the grass in the open air instead of sitting at the table properly, making me dirty, so rainy days were no less beautiful than the sun because it was fun to go barefoot in the puddles and washing hands with water and mud also some dry ditch in the summer drought is beginning to fill with water and immediately began to design rafts and wonderful adventures, and do all the fantasies of my playmate of my place and we suggested, with an abundance of stimuli at the end of September, we had still a great deal in the pipeline to be put off a year of dreams following For the rest of the year when I had some troubles I was very comforting immerse myself in some good memories tied to periods spent in the country.

Even as a child I realized how immensely lucky I was, being able to try all the sensations that only nature can give and which are not describable in words. One can not describe, and perhaps most striking about the experience, feeling what it feels like a chick who knocks on the egg to open to life is too dense and sacred!

I had a normal school curriculum: crawlers from nuns because I born in March, elementary school, middle school, high school, graduated in physics (from the greek , nature, I have not get that much far!) Nuclear: I am convinced that the concepts have been treated better than those who came to me from reading a book that was held in balance by two feet of grass in the middle of a field.

Growing up, the deep connection with nature has been increasingly strengthened, developed and matured: go to the countryside and be curiosity by "anything" is very relaxing and not boring (I can not relax by character standing eight hours lying in the sun, even I get nervous) and at the same time not so challenging as can be, for me, going to an exhibition. The intellectual stimulation that causes in me nature is interesting, fun and very discreet, that suits my mood while I see a work of art for the first time, to cause pleasure and satisfaction, always takes me a lot more energy.

The original, subjective desire for girl to share the fun with other children and well being september, coming by my experiences in the countryside over the years has also become a target objective, useful, even necessary, for large and small: to appreciate the countryside as a place of relaxation and endless source of stimulation, feelings and knowledge.

After graduation, I taught for more than twenty years, I have traveled far and wide the world both for work (physic, scullery maid, Commissioner for the final examinations abroad ...) and to experience other ways of life, environment and of art, ever organized trip: i never changed my feelings towards the countryside

Meanwhile, my father managed the company with the traditional method of from ownership of Francesca for 100 years . In 1997 he died, after many years of suffering, my mother died in 2002, in the age of 95, after missing my father on 1997, It wa passed to me the reins of management.

At that point, being an only child, I had to make a decision: sell, manage or change jobs. I chose this third option and I was dismissed from school,without retirement.

In 2000 the company was open to the public as an educational farm. The activities offered to visitors and locations have been designed with the intention to make a small contribution to the spread of the collective heritage of knowledge that provide the environment, agricultural landscapes and traditions, to experience, appreciate and enjoy the values and feelings agricultural world and give a realistic chance to see what would be the extent of the loss if you do not follow the indications given by international organizations, community, national and local environmental issue.

The farm, involving young adults, and hopes that "the environmental issues are best handled with the collaboration, each at his level of all interested citizens" (Principle 9 and 10 of the Rio Declaration) and that they actively promote conservation and protection of agricultural land for personal belief after having appreciated, known and directly experienced.

innovation 2007:
This year for the first time we have not bought any seeds from multinationals: wheat, corn, peas were sown from our seeds.
Among the wheat will be the cornflower, the Phacelia near the bees and do a test planting of sorghum in pure-bred seed corn of an old typical of the area: the imbriagona.

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