Associative life

Lands of the Blues – the market

Lands of the Blues – the market

The Lands of Blues Market is a side project of the Borgiallo Blues Festival that takes place every year in Borgiallo (TO) on the second Saturday of July: also a social slant with moments of “free cultural exchange” among participants and between participants and the public.

Crowdfunding to rebuild the road to Borgo Basino

Crowdfunding to rebuild the road to Borgo Basino

It is the whole community that is mobilizing to have access to their homes and businesses again. It starts from the bottom up, to find the funds needed to reconnect the six families left isolated with the world-a chance to turn the problem into an opportunity to build new community infrastructure from scratch. To contribute to this project, a crowfunding campaign has been launched-any help is welcome.

Solidarity camp in Modigliana

Solidarity camp in Modigliana

On Wednesday, May 31, and Thursday, June 1, we will be at Lorenzo’s farm in Modigliana to clean the field and then make the work of transplanting, watering, and hoeing possible. It is also necessary to be in good physical shape and, although the activity to be performed is not difficult, to have some familiarity with working in the countryside

Agroecology for land regeneration

Agroecology for land regeneration

The Summer School aims to help train future professionals who know how to trigger and implement, through the identification of the most promising and effective agroecological practices,processes of territorial, environmental and sociocultural regeneration in urban and
peri-urban

Are you familiar with the SEEDDOGS?

Are you familiar with the SEEDDOGS?

Since the summer of 2000, Seminasogni has been circulating in the homes of new citizens who have fled the cities to rediscover their roots, but also of citizens who would like to do so or otherwise feel connected in some way. DO YOU WANT TO PUBLISH YOUR OWN ARTICLE?
Write it on A4 sheets of paper

Campus for young people willing to undertake

Campus for young people willing to undertake

The educational plan, divided into 10 weeks (8 in-person and 2 remotely), covers various topics related to mountain entrepreneurship and is formulated to best suit the participants’ business ideas.

WWOOF Italy report presented at the Assembly

WWOOF Italy report presented at the Assembly

We share the report presented during the 2023 assembly of WWOOF Italy. In the document you can find useful information to learn more about our association. This document will also remain accessible directly from the site's Transparency page. WWOOF IT report...

Woody flora of the Emilian Apennines.

board edited by Enrico Bocchi - May 15, 2022 Enrico Bocchi provides us with an interesting sheet complete with legend to identify the most suitable woody species for hedge planting in the Apennine area of Emilia bocchi2022mag15floralwoodAppennEmiliaDownload the...

SIEPI-with hedges, nature encroaches on agriculture

The background of this SIEPI board. The following text rehashes an English original produced by project 2019-1-ES01-KA204-065581“resilient farmlands: promoting education to boost ecosystem services of non-productive agricultural lands(Resifarms)” of the Erasmus+...

Recommendations for biodiversity conservation in hedgerows and trees

from Enrico Bocchi - 15 May 2022 Whether they are found in natural, rural, or public and private parks, it is important that hedgerows maintain their function as bastions of biodiversity, preserving evidence of vegetation that was sacrificed to make way for...

Hedge seed drill course

Hedge seed drill course

WI is looking for soc@ who want to take part from Sept. 8 to 10 in the Seminasiepi – First Stage SPT course , conceived, organized and funded by WI. It is indispensable to be motivated to plant or enhance existing hedges on your farm.

Tiziano’s trees

Tiziano’s trees

For the past few years, WWOOF Italy has placed the promotion of agriculture that is not only organic, but attentive to the overall harmonious development of agricultural activity within and in synergy with nature at the center of its planning. The Seminasiepi course...

Weed control without chemistry

Weed control without chemistry

Oper8, a thematic network funded under the Horizon Europe program with the ambition to help establish national action plans on nonchemical weed control. The project begins by gathering “from the bottom up” the impressions and considerations of stakeholders, primarily farmers, but also consultants and technical media companies, regarding alternative techniques to herbicide use.

balance

balance

Each year, the association funds a residential course for an artist to interpret a reflection on the proposed theme.

The school of community activation and ecological transition

The school of community activation and ecological transition

The NEO Project – New Hospitable Experiences, is an immersive school of community activation and ecological transition, which applies participatory and inclusive approaches to the issues of inland neopolitanism and ecological transition.
The pilot phase was launched last June and took place between July and December 2022. The first national call for applications attracted 28 applications.

Tiziano and his plants

Tiziano and his plants

The main project I am focusing on is the regeneration of a 2.4-hectare piece of land that belonged to my great-grandparents and has been abused by traditional agriculture (mainly wheat monoculture) for several years. In doing so, I am also developing a nice human network of like-minded people in the area.” we read on the profile that Titian has prepared on our website and continues: “The dream is to turn Abruzzo into a huge scattered Eco village! :-)”

2023 the Gathering, the story

2023 the Gathering, the story

The staff and the early bird members were already in Fano on Thursday afternoon, to organise the annual gathering of WWOOF Italia. The high number of participants expected for the three-day event (including many WWOOFers, and many children to liven things up) was...