agroecology in the mountains and direct sales

The mountain farm “La Fonte “was founded in 1990 on abandoned terraced land. After 25 years of on-farm sales and markets, with educational workshops and “biodiversity” sales, it means: Fruits and vegetables both cultivated and wild, processed various syrups, jams vegetable preserves, salts, herbal teas, liqueurs, herbal products: gemmoderivatives, flower extracts (Bach and Trentino flowers), cheeses, yogurt and milk from goat, sheep, cow, eggs, wool felt, potting soil for flowers and vegetable gardens…all self-produced. We decide in 2017 to open a Farmer’s Store in town in Rovereto where we sell our products plus other essentials from local farmers of proven knowledge. This leads to less labor (loading-unloading, bad weather) and daily training of customers on food practices. After 22 years of organic certification (1995 to 2017) we decide to self-certify: certification with onerous bureaucracy and no longer meeting ethical principles. This allows us for the commissary, to buy even from non-certified producers whose agroecological realities we know without the use of chemistry and with healthy values, and to be able to vouch for them to customers, we therefore return to value direct relationship and trust. Education with children, fundamental, since 1999, with group days and summer Green Weeks set on food education in practice: we milk, harvest, cook and eat together.


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Is the organization already part of the Azione Terrae coalition?

From Mi to Ti 380698 Rovereto TN
Elizabeth Monti
www.la-fonte.org

Start date

1990-10-01

End date

Project title (if the practice is part of a specific project)

agroecology in the mountains and direct sales

Agroecological direct sales

Country(s) of implementation of the practice

italy

Main country

italy

Region and city

Trentino Rovereto

Dimensions of agroecology involved in practice

Environmental, Social, Economical

Main strategic theme

Terra

Land: priority

Alta

Seeds: priority

Alta

Market: priority

Alta

Services: priority

Alta

Women: priority

Media

Youth: priority

Alta

Does the Practice have any certification?

No



Previous agroecology experience in the identified area, considering the chosen category and the areas of intervention/pillar

Specify agroecological dimensions

Environmental, Social, Economical

Identified needs, referring to the context and categories


In this section we intend to deepen the Practice in relation to the document AT paper and SDG 4.7.

Objectives of good practice

farmers’ income
nutrition education

What kind of challenge was faced?

economic

Explain your choices

so much effort

How practice meets the 5 Ps of the 2030 Agenda

don’t know


In which areas has the Practice brought about the most changes?

In which Strategic Theme has the Practice made the most changes?

Explain in qualitative and quantitative terms

don’t know

Describe actions to replicate the practice

land given for free by the public body

Indicate how the Practice is sustainable

children learn to produce grow and eat healthy