Blue flags, vegetable gardens and sustainable villages: our recommendations for the weekend
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The great Orange Flags party is back, the initiative of the Italian Touring Club which certifies the most sustainable and welcoming villages in Italy. The 13 and 14 May at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan the representatives of the 270 villages certified with the tourist-environmental quality mark will meet.
Two intense days of meetings, talks, workshops and stands to walk around, discovering innovative solutions for sustainable land management. There Orange Flag certifies excellent villages, evaluating their usability from the point of view of the traveler and his visiting experience, rewarding them not only for their valuable historical, cultural and environmental heritage, but also because they are able to offer a welcome that respects the environment .
Biodiversity
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The 2023 one is a special edition. The 25th anniversary of the Orange Flags initiative dedicated to small inland towns will be celebrated. Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Marche, Abruzzo, Puglia and Sardinia are just some of the regions represented in the two days in Milan, which put the communities of these villages at the center and have kept them alive through a real process of regeneration.
And it is often thanks to young people that small businesses, workshops and community cooperatives have been born here, committed to enhancing and protecting the territory. Lots of stories. For example, the young artist’s studio Melissa Abate Dagawho decided to move from Turin to the village of Usseaux, in theUpper Val Chisoneto produce his works on natural surfaces such as stone and wood, or like the Gallura cellar Manconi of Tempio Pausaniahanded down for generations and still family-run which, with a totally organic wine production, is engaged in the recovery of some native vines.
Beaches and Clean Seabeds
“Those who love the beach treat it with kid gloves”. The Legambiente campaign dedicated to the monitoring and cleaning of waste abandoned along the beaches. Many initiatives organized not only in Italy. Clean-up the Med is in fact a widespread action in 22 Mediterranean countries.
As far as Italy is concerned, the Beach Litter 2023 survey monitored 38 beaches in 15 regions: an average of 961 waste was surveyed for every 100 meters of beach, of which 72.5% was made up of plastic. The objective of the campaign, explains Legambiente, is not only to physically remove waste from the beaches, but also to raise awareness and educate the community on the problem of man-made marine waste. All the coasts from north to south where Legambiente operators are waiting for volunteers are on the site legambiente.it.
Beaches as landfills, the report by Legambiente: 961 waste every 100 meters
Horticulture and the public green areas of Milan
26 between museums, vegetable gardens and gardens and in 39 shops set up by 27 floral designers. The Orticola event is back until 14 May at the Indro Montanelli Gardens in Milan and also this year the proceeds deriving from the sale of entrance tickets are destined for public parks in Milan. Two commitments: the adoption of the green spaces adjacent to Piazza Santo Stefano, an area of great importance for the city and a landscape feasibility study, by Filippo Pizzoni and Luca Leporati, to expand the cultural use of the open spaces of Fabbrica del Vapore, with the aim of promoting a cultural “nursery”.
Botany
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To report podcasts by the Ikebana Chapter Ohara of the Garden Club Milano. Both the botanical collections and the plants on display are equipped with a QRCode, just frame it with your smartphone for the explanation. The podcast thus becomes a widespread story that involves OutOrticola, museums, exhibitions, gardens, vegetable gardens, shops and floral designers to learn about botanical curiosities and insights into figurative art.
Goes on the collaboration between Orticola di Lombardia and the historic Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo which led to the twinning between Orticola and Zagara, the exhibition-market organized twice a year at the Botanical Garden of Palermo. The initiative stems from the desire to make important pieces of the Italian historical, botanical and landscape heritage known at the two climatic extremes of the peninsula. To stimulate more and more growing botanical tourism in a North-South dialogue that can only increase the love for the Italian heritage.
In Orticola there are not only nurserymen. Megachile rotundata solitary bees do not make honey, but are excellent pollinators, Lucerna Bees developed and tested the hexagonal nest especially for them. The wood used is entirely recycled, trunks collected in the woods or pieces of wood intended for the stove, Estebanland gives them new life by creating hand-carved wooden vases. Present Botanical Clinic which in the exhibition deals with the recovery and regeneration of plants.
tutorials
In natural gardening there are no “weeds”
by Gaetano Zoccali
Visitors to Orticola 2023 have the opportunity to bring “unwanted” or simply no longer wanted plants to their stand, as an ethical alternative to discarding them, Clinica Botanica collects them and “takes care of them”. 87 free moments dedicated to the public, both adults and children. Meetings, book and garden presentations, decoration and painting workshops, guided visits to the exhibition-market, technical courses on plants and to learn the art of gardening. Re Plant is participating for the first time, a social promotion association that recovers plants that should be thrown away, a real first aid for greenery.
Forest bathing at Oasi Zegna
If you have never tried Forest Bathing or would like to relive the experience, the CSEN certified Shinrin-yoku instructors will accompany you to Oasi Zegna on a journey of awareness where man and nature merge. From May the calendar is full of events dedicated to forest bathing. Alone, as a couple, with the family or with children, spring is the ideal season to experience this practice of connection with nature, which has come from Japan. In particular, May 14th will be a day of immersion in nature for families, made up of games and relaxation in collaboration with Young Parents. Sunday 21 May will be dedicated to an open day to experience the practices of Forest Bathing and its multiple benefits on our psycho-physical health, in the silent fir and beech woods.
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