Flip&Grow the farm tour 1° stop
Oasis of Biodiversity Galbusera Bianca
Oasis of Biodiversity Galbusera Bianca – Sustainable Agricultural Village.
Flip&Grow farm tour - 2° stop
"The secrets of herbs" Piedmont - Italy
Silvia and Toti at the farm I segreti delle erbe, the second atop
of their Piedmont Flip & Grow the Farm tour.
There are lots of herbs to discover and to put the nose on. The place is gorgeous: a house in the woods! The family home is cosy and very friendly to us.
These days there are many things to do! Especially disturbing the small field of lavender and distilling essential oils.
Flip&Grow the farm tour - 3° stop:
Valtidone Verde (Lombardy) Italy
With a very warm welcome, Ludmilla introduced Silvia and Toti to the whole family and introduced them to the beautiful valley of Zavattarello (Pavia).
Here they are in front of a beautiful view and beautiful nature.
But their duty is calling: new stuff to learn and to practice!
Transformation of the cherries into jam, gardening and small farm work like harvesting cherries from cherry trees!!
Flip&Grow farm tour - 4th stop:
the Cuore Verde Piedmont, Italy
Silvia and Toti were very busy with all the activities at il Cuore Verde (Piemonte), the fourth stop of the farm tour. They are learning a lot: canned in oil, the dough for bread and pizza with beer, egg pasta, homemade craft beer, fruit juices, not to mention the work in the garden!
Eating pounds of vegetables and fruits in season every day is really nice. It makes you feel so much a part of nature’s cycle. Toti is also helping to make markets in Acqui Terme, Ovada, and Novi Ligure. The alarm goes off early in the morning, but it’s a very nice experience!
Sunday was a long day of preparations for the much-awaited FESTIVAL COUNTRY … they picked fruits and vegetables early in the morning, cooked for everyone in the secluded garden, grilled and ate in good company. In the afternoon, we attended yoga lessons, and Vanessa accompanied the participants on a tour of the company, telling his story.
It was a beautiful day full of sharing, fun, love for the earth and good food ♥
Flip & Grow farm tour - 5th stop:
Nun tà de scià (Liguria)
Silvia and Toti were at San Colombano, in the beautiful Valle del Chierico (in the Province of Genova, Liguria), a mountainous area 20 km from Chiavari.
Brunella and Guido were greeted with great enthusiasm and warmth. This country’s reality is a bit ‘different from the others because it is not a company making profit. It is, in fact, a house bought with many sacrifices to achieve the dream of living in a simple, genuine, cultivating the land for their livelihoods and recovering the ancient local varieties of fruit and vegetables.
This time, they needed to work according to the principles of permaculture in gardens and fields within the forest, and it was a wonderful experience. It almost seems to be one with nature and work as guardians of this corner of paradise.
The work is concentrated in the cooler hours from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. The rest of the day is dedicated to meditation, remarrying, reading, and small house chores. They wanted a place like this!
Flip & Grow farm tour- 6th stop:
Farm Roveroni Annalisa (Emilia Romagna)
Toti and Silvia continued the farm tour in the beautiful hills of Val di Taro and helped Annalisa and Enzo with their gardening.
One unexpected experience this time found them in front of a demanding “work in progress” in the constitution of a laboratory for the bakery, a store, and a future community with homes in bio-architecture.
The land here is very clayey, and drought is a problem on the agenda for which we see many efforts to irrigate the plants.
Doing the best also to express solidarity with those people who have a dream and struggle to achieve it.
Flip & Grow, farm tour - 7th stop: Fattoria dell’autosufficienza (Emilia Romagna)
For the Love4Globe guys, a few days in Bagno di Romagna, they participated in a field camp, born of our complicity with Francis, head of the Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza.
In recent years, in fact, some derelict land has been recovered, and training courses and projects have started that are slowly making this reality fully self-sufficient.
Along with other volunteers who had joined the initiative, they had very intense days. It was like being part of a big family and sharing many ideals, which created a special energy.
Elena and Alex gave them many synergistic ideas on agriculture, and they saw some typical permaculture practices live. It was a short stop, but so intense!
