Nature is the protagonist of the next meetings of the “The time of kindness” project, promoted by the Historic Workers’ Society of Pordenone with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the Municipality of Pordenone and ITAS Assicurazioni, in collaboration with AIAB – Italian Agriculture Association Organic FVG. And it will be AIAB President Cristina Micheloni, agronomist and expert on these issues, who will personally participate in the two events scheduled for Wednesday 15 May at 6.00 pm at the Convent of San Francesco in Pordenone and Thursday 16 May at 6.30 pm at the Guarneriana Library of San Daniele from Friuli.
At the center of these meetings will be the dialogue with Giacomo Sartori, an agronomist specialized in soil science with experience in international cooperation, but also a writer of essays and novels in which science, nature and human feelings come into play in original contemporary plots.
“Kindness towards the land that nourishes us” is the title of the event in Pordenone, developed through a “narration through images” that Sartori will conduct together with Elena Tognoli, visual artist and illustrator, who will animate the meeting by creating maps and drawings in directly, at the same time as the relationship progresses. “Below and above. Voices and images from the soil” is the common thread chosen for this special storytelling, which starts from an important assumption: our perception of the soil, of the land we walk on, often does not give us a precise idea of its richness. The soil and the earth are in fact living matter and home to an immense biodiversity made up of billions of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, earthworms and other microscopic presences) which promote fertility. It is therefore from the soil that we receive the nourishment necessary to live, and for this reason we must learn to treat the land with respect and kindness, cultivating it without impoverishing it.
Thanks to Elena Tognoli’s live creations, the tiny “inhabitants” of the earth will come to life to tell their point of view on the environment, on humans and on the state of this world, through illustrations and shadow puppets that will accompany them in time the author’s poetic-scientific narratives are real.
Cristina Micheloni, who for over twenty years coordinated the AIAB scientific committee, initiating a long and complex research activity applied to various sectors of organic agriculture, will finally bring her experience regarding the need to activate a true “consciousness green” that improves the agricultural approach to the riches of the earth.
And it will be Cristina Micheloni again who will talk to Giacomo Sartori in San Daniele on May 16th, regarding the book written to the professor-popularizer entitled “Coltivare la natura. Eating yourself by nourishing the earth” (Kellermann Editore, 2023). The essay seeks an answer to the questions: Will it be possible to feed humanity without devastating the environment and without the current unsustainable uses of resources? How can we find a balance between what we remove from the land and what we give back to them? Are traditional and organic agriculture really poles apart?
Also in this volume, as in other writings by Sartori, knowledge and scientific practice meet civil commitment and the pace of literary narration, showing that in the current convergence of crises affecting the entire planet, agriculture has a central place. It is with it, and with our eating habits, that our margins for obtaining sustainable solutions are wider, it is from it that we can learn to use perspectives and methods compatible with complex natural functioning.
The events are free to enter.
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