Cascina Santa Brera - A guided tour to a Sunday morning in a dawn cold and white and I were at Mama
Cascina Santa Brera , standing sbarbellare together with 15 other people at least, before
Irene, the lady who, in a guided tour telling us spellbound the history of the place and how it is maintained.
Irene tells court of this ancient, now a farmhouse, a protected area restored according to the methods of green building
and maintained in accordance with the principles of permaculture
, and organic agriculture
.
The history of this place is made of
arms field, wrinkles in the sun, muscles, mind elsewhere (cited) of need and effort, decade after decade, and when Irene was found in his hands this fortune, he has not wanted to waste.
Inspired by the model of sustainable human settlements
, Irene has used the land with respect for nature and the environment, spreading knowledge needed to create a sustainable environment like this.
According to her, giving up the responsibility of land that had happened, it meant losing the responsibility of our main life. Thus, this activity started, first with difficulty, then with great force will and tenacity to become a kind of multipurpose village micro .
With its resources equally divided and never wasted, the balance between man and nature, an appreciation of their actions. Yes, raising animals for slaughter, but nobody is perfect :-) Anyway, these are eggs, meat and organic honey, rare stuff.
What does the House:
- baking courses, pruning, energy sustainability, soaps and creams at home, permaculture farm
-
- restaurant
- tours
- cohousing
- adopt a garden area for the families of
- fields Summer
- green weeks
- farm animals
around the end of the
gardens, the stables
, large piles of chopped wood
and smoking, have lunch in the great hall of the family atmosphere, where I and Mama know a couple of beautiful people of my age, we exchange addresses and information, and we learn two or more new words:
wwoofing and permaculture. Irene
recommend reading The Man Who Planted Trees . Maybe I find the library.
The owner of this ecosystem is in that category that we call "the enlightened". Something in their brain has clicked and have been able to translate thought into action, with tenacity and conviction.
Doing things with their hands, learn by touching and experimenting. Wrong, try again, to laugh at himself, not to lose heart.
Here.
This is a good example.
