Ferri Personali: “We create the Modena vegetable garden as a symbol of our land’”
MIRANDOLA (MODENA) – The vegetable garden as a symbol of sustainability. “Let's make the symbol of the vegetable garden to protect the environment start from Modena, from our beloved land. There is a lot of talk about environmental sustainability. Growing a vegetable garden is one of the common practices in much of our territory. Let's raise it to a true icon of sustainability, as we have decided at […]
MIRANDOLA (MODENA) – The vegetable garden as a symbol of sustainability. “Let’s make the symbol of the vegetable garden to protect the environment start from Modena, from our beloved land. There is a lot of talk about environmental sustainability. Growing a vegetable garden is one of the common practices in much of our territory. Let’s raise it to a true and own icon of sustainability, as we decided to do in the villa”. Villa La Personala, the splendid thousand-year-old residence to which the entrepreneur Angelica Ferri Personali gave new life after the 2012 earthquake had seriously damaged it, is expanding its actions to an all-round sustainable daily life and also bets on the vegetable garden.
In the heart of the Modena countryside, in San Giacomo Roncole in the municipality of Mirandola, Villa La Personala is now a destination for tourism that seeks the combination of naturalness, beauty and refined elegance that characterizes each of its proposals . In this quest to offer a place of well-being for every guest, Ferri Personali has aimed to enhance some spaces of the Villa by allocating them to the creation of the vegetable garden. “Anyone who is in a position to do so should dedicate themselves to the practice of gardening – he urges us now – because the benefits for health and the environment are considerable. Let’s call it ‘Modena’s vegetable garden’, a model of industrious activity, typical of our land. I launch this idea to the institutions of Modena, so we can create a virtuous circle that arises from the territory”.
Having the raw material at zero kilometer for healthy cuisine with strictly seasonal products is one of the first reasons that justify taking care of a space dedicated to the growth of vegetables. Now, however, the practice is further motivated by the results of a survey promoted by Altroconsumo which indicates the vegetarian diet as the least expensive for the citizen and, together with the vegan one, the most sustainable from an environmental point of view, for a use more water content and lower carbon dioxide emissions during the production process. The result arose, therefore, from the comparison of the environmental impact of the entire supply chain which is underlying three diets – vegetarian, vegan and Mediterranean – on their cost over the course of a week. The most economically convenient diet turned out to be the vegetarian one with a weekly cost of around 53 euros. He follows the vegan diet, with 54 euros, and the Mediterranean for which 63 euros per week are needed, 17% more than the vegetarian one, due to the inclusion of meat and fish in the diet.
“Dedicating yourself to the garden is an action that promotes a lifestyle that is attentive to the well-being of oneself, others and the environment in which we live. It is an action that can become collective in favor of sustainability“, concludes Ferri Personali.