QUalche some time ago came out a study who invited everyone but everyone to a return. Go back to the earth, he said. Being in contact with the bacteria of the soil, reads, is the best way to strengthen the immune system. Beyond the study, those who have already given an outlet to the need for all intimate to touch, and live, in the green perhaps did not know of the benefits on health.
Maurizio Carucci is one of these to say. Songwriter (ex-Otago), as well as farmer and traveler, wrote a book in which he talks about woods, restlessness, rooms full of animals, paths taken to meet another life. Now he also is the farmer in Val Borbera and his collective project @cascina_barban, he says, is a “political choice”.
It is not the only one.
Stefano Mecorio, a repentant journalist who gave himself to the care of green, has recently written The secrets of the roots. Small diary of an imperfect gardener (newsagement), to guide us in a world made of hens that teach the beauty of useless acts, bees that never stop working, rebellious plants and flowers that marry. This place is called this place. And he, who defines himself as a Frantoian, walker and writer, tells us about his obsession (fertile): a domestic garden transformed into a forest of over 600 plants, a mirror of his newspaper. What comes out in the book is an epic of its ten years of life in which the roots become a symbol of what it supports and nourishes everything, both in the life of a garden, and in that of those who cultivate it.
Who has never thought at least once they have a little green to be cured, moreover? Even it was in a balcony of any urban center. Three tips (paper) on how to start.
Put vegetable gardens on your balconies by Matteo Cereda
Put vegetable gardens on your balconies (Rizzoli) is a complete manual to keep in the kitchen next to the gardening scissors and many terracotta vessels to fill. Matteo Cereda, founder of Ortidacoltiva.itand saffron farmer in Brianza. Having this anti-stress corner in the city is good for everyone. And to read at least three tips in the evening before sleeping relaxes us. One for all: before sowing we leave the seeds to soak in an infusion of chamomile at room temperature. It softens its external tag and also has a disinfectant effect. Then, if you want to make the vegetable garden in the autumn (therefore, now, hurry up!) Know that it is now a time of sowing for broad beans, peas, winter onions, spinach, garlic (where the climate is milder, or with adequate coverage, even fennel, lettuce and radicchio). A preventive treatment recommended is this: add corroborating such as propolis or horsetail.
Put vegetable gardens on your balconies by Matteo Cereda, Rizzoli, 352 pages, 13 €
Matteo Cereda with Piero Isolan also wrote a manual on Aromatic herbs (Gribaudo) to teach to recognize the characteristics and properties of more than 30 aromatic plants, learn to grow them everywhere, choose the right vase, prepare the soil, sow and transplant with simple but effective techniques
Bulbomania by Simonetta Chiarugi and Christian Shejbal
Is called Bulbomania The book written by Simonetta Chiarugi and Christian Shejbal (Gribaudo) who is depopulating and talks about us. Of us who go to a fair without knowing why we bring some bulb at home in the end: then, as happened to Chiarugi, life can change. Start putting in dwelling narcissi, hyacinths and tulips now, and in spring enjoy them all. Maybe in the meantime you plan a visit to some bulberia would not be bad.
Bulbomania by Simonetta Chiarugi and Christian Shejbal, Gribaudo, 208 pages, € 18.90
Tom Massey’s sustainable garden
How to manage increasingly warm and dry summers, followed by torrential and sudden rains? In a nutshell, how to reconcile love for the planet with that for gardening? Try to answer Tom Massey with his The sustainable garden (Cairo), made with the Royal Horticultural Society, in which it shows how you can protect the environment also by creating and cultivating a garden.
The book is for everyone and also adapts to a small balcony. With examples of realizations in extreme conditions, also recalling how much Life can change for the better thanks to plants and gardens.
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