Porto l'Orto in Lampedusa, this is the name of the project that aims to make the Sicilian island greener thanks to urban gardens. About 70 people on the island will be assigned 15 small plots to cultivate. Thanks to Legambiente and Terra Onlus in Lampedusa, new social gardens will soon be born.
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I am taking the garden to Lampedusa, this is the name of the project that aims to make the Sicilian island greener thanks to urban gardens. About 70 people on the island will be assigned 15 small plots to cultivate. Thanks to Legambiente and Terra Onlus, new ones will soon be born in Lampedusa social gardens.
It is a project aimed at enhance the riches of the island thanks to the creation of meeting places and socializing places for the local community, but also of research and experimentation opportunities dedicated to natural agriculture. L'community garden of Lampedusa in fact, it will be based on innovative agricultural techniques and on the recovery of native varieties.
The project will also serve to relaunch Lampedusa from a tourism point of view. A rare pearl that is often forgotten and left alone to face the emergency of the arrival of illegal immigrants who - when they manage to land on the shore - arrive on its shores in desperate conditions.
The community of 6000 people who live in Lampedusa will find their union thanks to creations of vegetable gardens that focus on respect for the environment and social issues. Lampedusa must be considered above all as a safe harbor for thousands of people who not only save their lives here, but who have the opportunity to start a new life.
10 reasons to bring vegetable gardens to Lampedusa
1) Because we all owe a debt of gratitude towards the Lampedusan community.
2) Because Lampedusa has aidentity which is not only what the media returns, distorted by the story of an endless tragedy. Anyone who knows Lampedusa knows that it is not just an "illegal emergency" but an entire community that, in the thousands of contradictions of daily life, has shown an extraordinary social standing.
3) To enhance the natural beauty of the island. Because Lampedusa is simply splendid and the gardens add beauty to the territory.
4) To return one to Lampedusa agricultural vocation which over the years has been lost. We think that the gardens can serve as a spark to revive all those lands that in recent years have been abandoned or, worse, the result of speculation.
5) Why the community of Lampedusa in recent years saved the lives of thousands of migrants.
6) Because when the sea is high, the supermarket shelves are empty, and then theself-sustaining and horticultural production may be an answer, albeit a partial one.
7) To rediscover the horticultural varieties of the island.
8) To make a open-air social center, where the Lampedusans and the people who pass through the island can relate to each other.
9) To wrest the territory from building speculation.
10) To rediscover the value of the land.
The project I am taking the garden to Lampedusa sees the participation of Terra Onlus (Thu the project in detail), a non-profit and non-partisan environmental association, which collaborates with Circolo Legambiente Lampedusa "Esther Ada". Among the companies that support the project we find Lush with its Charity Pot cream. You can support Porto l'Orto in Lampedusa thanks to the crowdfunding. Just click Thu.
Marta Albè
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