From children to retirees, an ageless passion
A passion that was lost with the generation of our grandparents and, instead, is slowly returning to infect Italy, in ways often original and Community. A return
so unexpected, forcing observers to coin costume changes, a special date - gliu "Ortisti" - to describe those people, normally used in office work rather than
housewives and pensioners, who are rediscovering the pleasure of eating vegetables grown with their own hands, that you know the origin and authenticity. A fashion - if one may call it that - he's doing emulated in Bergamo, to the point that the Botanical Garden City High has had to double its domestic horticulture courses to meet the many inscriptions.
Chemicals off limits
Speaking to participants of the course, it is difficult to identify the causes of the phenomenon, but the number of students forced to take notice. It is the same type of ortisti to be quite varied: "With the exception of lawyers and other professionals - commented Alberto Magri, an agronomist and assistant
the Botanical Garden - the participants are people who are doing the most varied part by graduates in fields related to agriculture to get to the senior who has always wanted to take care of their own garden but for one reason or another
, no one has ever succeeded.
Then there are the housewives, lovers looking for some makeup, parents who want to grow with the children one or two plants on the terrace of the house. "
Different people, moved by different motivations and different expectations. John, for example, Cha is a senior looking to make money from a piece of ground under the house: "I mess commitment some time ago, without any experience.
slowly, even by mistake, I am learning to cultivate various types of vegetables and, when spring comes, I take my fill tomatoes, croissants, peas, salad. All without herbicides or other chemicals, because cultivating for myself, I have no interest in making my intensive agriculture because of the weeds if the crop is lost, patience! What remains to be genuine and without poisons. "
Even Robert, surveyor, in his fifties, has a piece of land available, "This year, with my children, we decided to transform the garden into a small garden. Actually that was his home and I
himself as a child, his aunt and uncle helped to sow and keep it in order.
Now, while working, I'd spend the weekend back on their feet. It is a hobby much more noble than the others and also an opportunity to do some 'physical activity at no cost. "
A hobby that can also be practiced on a single terrace, "I - says Maria Cristina - full-time job as a clerk and I did not even have a garden, but they told me that with some pot on the terrace and a bit
'attentions to I could easily grow some seedlings. The tomatoes and peas, for example, grow in height, but do not require too much space. Sure, I can not give up dall'ortolano spending, but some satisfaction I could take it away, we also learn tricks for flowers at home. "
Commitment to Child
The fact, then, that horticulture may have some pedagogical value should not be missed
Bruno, used with two children in tow: "I have brought you here my son and his cousin - he says - and the idea I liked a lot for us, grow some plants on the terrace of the house would be little more than a game but a game
teaching load.
Taking care of a plant, no matter how small, it needs constant attention and a commitment to child-which may offer an opportunity to learn something authentic. " As in all the arts, moreover, รน in the garden that you never stop learning. Alberto Magri, however, ensures that, after these few lessons to the Botanical Gardens, each participant will have already acquired the basics of how to grow some fruit: "shrewdness, tricks and clinical eye will then, with the experience."
PG Baggio - L'Eco di Bergamo - Monday, February 14, 2011 Report, p.. 8
Editor's note of Blog:
The Association "Friends of the Community Garden - Auser" has long been available to enthusiasts of horticulture, specifically to the new generations, to spread this activity.
Our center is at the Technical School of Agriculture in Via Borgo Palazzo. Anyone can access for free to make an appointment with
BERT Sangalli
Via Stelvio 6 - Bergamo
tel. 035 241812 
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