Elisa Mignaniborn in 1997, peasant cook and owner of the Il Campagnino farmhouse in Pessina Cremonese, is the new president of Terranostra Cremona, the environmentalist association of Coldiretti, aimed at agritourism, environment and territory. He received the baton from Gherardo Mazzapeasant chef from Spino d’Adda, during the Elective Assembly of the Association, held in Cremona, at the area office in via Ruffini.
Welcomed by the director of Coldiretti Cremona Paola Bono and the vice president Serena AntonioliEleonora Masseretti, regional president of Terranostra, spoke at the meeting, supported by Irene Facchetticoordinator of Campagna Amica and Terranostra Lombardia.
For the regional president Eleonora Massetti and for the newly elected provincial president Elisa Mignani it was an opportunity to take stock of Terranostra’s commitment and objectives. President Masseretti presented the association, the aims and the key points of the program to the members and the agriturismos, mentioned the new appointments, the next objectives, and underlined the value of sharing paths, feeling like a team and “networking”.
He reiterated how “our challenge is to talk about agricultural tourism”, highlighting how “the combination of agriculture and tourism is now at the center of attention, thanks also to the candidacy of Italian cuisine as a UNESCO intangible heritage”. The president has reiterated the value of agricultural tourism, which is experiential tourism, “slow tourism, of small villages, of agricultural stories”. He then highlighted, among the work objectives for the next few years, the desire to focus on training, for example starting from the promotion of courses dedicated to foreign languages.
Terranostra Cremona is also ready to do its part in the commitment to provide answers and support to local agritourism companieswith the common intention of promoting and supporting agritourism activities with a view to protecting and enhancing the natural resources of the rural world.
“We are ready to start again and bring our contribution of work and ideas – said the newly elected Elisa Mignani -. I thank you for the trust placed in me. I gladly make myself available to continue together with all of you on the path already undertaken, with the aim of enhancing our companies and our territory more and more and better, promoting our peasant hospitality and our agri-food excellence”.
On behalf of everyone, thanks were addressed to the outgoing president Mazza, who remains in the provincial and regional team. Elisa Mignani will also have at her side Paolo Riseriformer president of Terranostra, e Giacomo Maghenzanihead of the secretariat.
“Good work to Elisa Mignani and the entire Terranostra team – highlights the director of Coldiretti Cremona Paola Bono –. The farmhouses are custodians of food traditions over time, with local menus based on zero-kilometre seasonal products. But in recent years theservice offering has expanded: alongside the traditional ones, such as catering and accommodation, others have been added such as tasting, walks and excursions, educational farms, courses, social farms. We are proud of this reality which, even in the province of Cremona, has so much to offer. Thanks to Terranostra’s commitment, we contribute to the growth of quality tourism, which seeks the goodness of the food, the typical flavours, the family welcome, and at the same time is attentive to the natural, landscape and artistic beauties of our territory”.
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