Nicola, the family's choice to live in the woods and take care of bees

Nicola, the family's choice to live in the woods and take care of bees

The couple had chosen to live in a cottage in the woods of the Apennines, in the midst of unspoiled nature

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

Living in the midst of nature, among the magical woods of the Apennines. The parents of little Nicola Tanturli, who passed away yesterday in Tuscany and fortune found safe and sound, have chosen it for some time.





The baby, we remember, was at the bottom of an escarpment about three kilometers in Campanara di Palazzuolo sul Senio, an isolated town in the upper Mugello. He was not there by chance but together with his mother Pina and father Leonardo, Nicola lived in the heart of the Apennines where his parents had moved in 2009.

The couple had chosen to live in a cottage in the woods of the Apennines, in the midst of unspoiled nature in a place almost out of time and where man still respects natural rhythms. To tell the Campiaperti association was Pina herself, as the Running tells:

I approached the farming world in 2009 after a bachelor's degree in social sciences. It seemed absurd to me to know how to use a PC and never have planted a tomato, no longer knowing how to recognize a poisonous plant from one that cures, stepping on very good edible herbs, which wood to use for handles or fences ".

Love for bees and food self-sufficiency

And this is how in the space of a few years, Pina and Leonardo also became beekeepers, taking care of 500 hives. Starting again from these precious insects, increasingly threatened, was very important for the couple who, however, did not limit themselves only to protecting the bees. In fact, they tried to make their dream of self-producing all the food they needed, of a self-sufficient life from a food point of view, come true:

I did not want to exploit or be exploited - explains Pina - Wild animals like everything else I had seen in books so I met Leonardo and others to live with with a tendency to self-sufficiency. To have some honey for us, in 2009, at the urging of a friend, we got a family of bees visited collectively; the bees we have now all come from there, The second year we had 3, then 5.
 



A dream caressed even since childhood by Nicola's father who lived in the countryside with his grandparents, agricultural workers, when he was very young, planting seeds and taking care of trees. 

But Leo and Pina are not the only ones to have made this choice, in the area on the border between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The first to arrive in the valley, 37 years ago, were 8 people who have just returned from a long trip to India. They settled in the rectory of a deconsecrated seventeenth-century church and began to repopulate Palazzuolo, which has now become a community where people try to self-produce their own food, where gardens are grown, animals are raised, organic products and handicrafts are produced, using renewable energy.

A real eco-village where hospitality is offered in equipped Indian tents and where cell phones do not work. 


Here lives little Nicola, luckily back home.

Sources of reference: Corriere Fiorentino


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