Carla Vico Antonio Monge
We have taken care of apple trees for 300 years
The Monge family has coltivated apple trees for 300 yearsin Verzuolo.
Antonio was the first one who did it owning his fields. In 1976, two year after the death of his father, he and his wife decided to buy the land her ancestors cultivated from a noble family of Cuneo.
In the interview, Antonio explains his work and the difficulties he face in the present, in particular the relationship with the workforce. Today the firm is led by Antonio's friend and expanded the business cultivating also kiwi.
This interview was collected for a research promoted by the Cuneo Province Council - Department of Agriculture, parks and forest and conducted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences in order to institute the archive Cuneo province agriculture between tradition and innovation.
Video table of contents
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Verzuolo
District: CN
Suburb: Chianina
Altitude: 420m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Delicious
Urls: Una mela al giorno
Antonio Monge
Date of birth: 08-08-1943
City: Verzuolo
School: Primary
Profession: Farmer
Languages: italiano
Document by: Andrea Icardi
Video by: Andrea Icardi
Created: 20-11-2013
Questo video fa parte del seguente archivio
Agriculture in Cuneo between tradition and innovation
Agriculture in Cuneo between tradition and innovation
The testimonials of fruit growers and vine growers, beekeepers and breeders, help us sketch the variegated patchwork of agriculture in Cuneo. The memories told are particularly relative to the choices of youths who in past years have opted for turning back to agriculture as a consciously chosen job. What made a big difference was the ability to innovate between new knowledge and past traditions. The archive itself is enriched- thanks to a dialogic relationship between generations- by some interviews to elderly farmers who documented the knowledge of their generation and the way in which they significantly contributed to the agricultural and economical development of the territory. Research promoted by the Province of Cuneo- Agriculture, Parks and Forests sector.
