The Forestry Consortium Terre Medio Appennino Reggio has launched the campaign via Facebook to save over 400 secular trees
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThe Forestry Consortium Terre Medio Appennino Reggio has launched the "Adopt a Chestnut" campaign via Facebook to save over 400 secular trees that live in the ancient chestnut grove of Marola
Marola, part of the municipality of Carpineti in the province of Reggio Emilia, it is still famous today for its millenary chestnut grove. It was the Countess Matilda di Canossa who ordered its creation, around the year 1000, in order to feed the local population with the so-called 'bread tree' (America had not yet been discovered and the potato - the food of the poor for excellence - had not yet entered Europe). After the establishment, the chestnut forest was taken over by the Benedictine monks, who made it flourishing and introduced 14 different species of chestnuts and marroni: the trees were planted at a distance of about 12 meters from each other (according to a criterion called Matilda's sixth) and among them the flocks grazed.
Unfortunately, however, this splendid wood, which has resisted over the centuries and generations, risks disappearing mainly due to a small insect (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) that is infecting and killing all the trees. Economic resources are needed to take care of the chestnut trees and save the forest. That's why the Forestry Consortium Terre Medio Appennino Reggiano (born in 2018) has launched a social campaign to invite ordinary citizens to take care of one of the six symbols of the Reggio-Emilia Apennines and not to make an important piece of local history disappear.
The initiative is called "Adopt a chestnut”: Until 25 September, anyone will be able to contribute to the redevelopment of the Castagneto di Marola by symbolically adopting a tree, through an economic contribution of 250 euros. For more information you can write one to the address: terreappennino@gmail.com
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Source: Terre Medio Apennino Reggiano Forest Consortium
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