Rosalia Vacca and the Dream of… Ivano Ferrarotti
Ivano Ferrarotti: guardian of the memory of waters and the forest
Ivano Ferrarotti, born in 1949, first curator of the Bosco della Partecipanza in Trino, is the son of a water carrier. He fondly remembers his father's profession, which operated in the area of the "nineteen bridges" near Trino. A man who left a deep mark, thanks to his long experience in the world of irrigation water, a universe made up of encounters with extraordinary nature and people capable of dosing water to the millimeter in periods of drought and of taming, with few tools but great experience, the rushing waters during heavy rainfall.
Video table of contents
- First curator of the Partecipanza and son of a water carrier
- Cutting grass in ditches with a scythe
- The flood period
- Putting fish in the rice fields
- Fishing for frogs
- Fried and pickled fish: a supply for the winter
- The Trino District in my father's time
- The floods in Trino: 1994 and 2000
- My father's experience: able to work with water without tools
- The crafty ones
- The moon and the cutting of grass and wood
- I used to go and cut the rice with my father
- The curmaia and the drawing of lots for participation
- Fountains and water rights
- How the water carriers dressed
- Tadpoles and egg swaps: fewer and fewer animals in the rice fields
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Trino
Ivano Ferrarotti
Date of birth: 04-28-1949
City: Quinzano Sull'Oglio
Profession: Other
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Ghiardo
Video by: Davide Porporato, Luca Ghiardo
Created: 04-10-2024
Questo video fa parte del seguente archivio
Rice stories
Rice stories
Food is a fundamental resource for man and his health, both through the supply of nutrients and the ability to embody traits of human culture that play a leading role in our well-being.
Over time, each territory has built original ways in which to relate to the fruits of its land, enriching them with rituals, symbolic meanings and culinary customs. Much of these relationships have been lost following the years of the economic boom, with the exodus from the countryside to urban centers, with the advent of agriculture for mass production and ultimately with the globalization of markets and the consequent impoverishment of the heritage of biodiversity and ethnodiversity.
The purpose of this archive is to collect evidence relating to the main rice production area in Europe, that is the Po Valley, and to investigate, through the analysis of textual sources and testimonies collected in the field, both what survives of this heritage, and the ways in which which has evolved and reached us, paying particular attention to the explicit and implicit links that bind food and health.
