The Garden of an idler

Confessions of an apprentice gardener
by Pia Pera

"I always felt the attraction for the land, plant and life of the agriculture. From the land I gained a lot of strength and joy. When you have to expect out a garden or a vegetable garden, you would not want to do anything else. It is beatitude. The peace".

In a society that encourages us to desire luxury goods, expensive technology, sophisticated pleasures, to the author, instead, just 'little' to feel satisfied. With poetry and elegance, Pia Pera send this message through his book to all those who today are taken from harmful mechanisms capable of destroying nature and the world. In its pages tries to convey precisely this sense of joy.

The story itself is simple, how vegetables are grown and cared for a garden on the slopes of Mount Pisano, in Tuscany, can actually teach a lot more than you can imagine. It 's a story bucolic exposed with a veil of irony, that of Pia speaks about the abandonment of the agricultural life and troubled relationship with the vegetable garden, sometimes silent and demanding teacher of life, capable to make know good two different reality: one’s and that of environment that surrounds it.

Nothing so striking, perhaps, to make a news. Yet, growing the food we eat, be autonomous from the market, waste nothing, do not pollute, enjoy the joys of nature seem really the only way to get a connection, almost maternal, with the Land.

Publisher Ponte alle Grazie, Milan
Price: Euro 12.00, Page 207

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