Cesare Maiolani
The pleasure of working in an organic farm.
Cesare Maiolani, born in 1954, born in Goito, in the province of Mantua, has always been linked to the land, first alongside cattle breeding and rice cultivation, then with only the more profitable rice cultivation. From 1974 to 2002, the year of his retirement, he worked in the Fire Brigade. Cesare, hired in Cascina Teglio for some years, particularly appreciates the possibility of working in a "clean" environment free from chemicals harmful to the health of those who take care of the rice field every day.
At the same time, to work in an organic farm it is essential to be punctual in interventions, to be attentive to all the signals that nature presents to us and to know how to anticipate them with the natural tools that are available. You don't have to be afraid to work but you are rewarded by not having to breathe poisons and by the possibility of enjoying a widespread green that favors a huge variety of animals and plants. Cesare's passion is evident when he talks about the difficulties with which the rice seed makes its way into the weed during the germination phase and then becomes a strong and autonomous plant.
Video table of contents
- The Mantuan origins and the relationship with the land.
- The experience in Cascina Teglio: healthy for the environment and for us who work there.
- Working in a group: the pleasure of working for a common purpose.
- In the family, Mamma Bianca used to cook rice in many ways, now there is my wife who is very good.
- Working on an organic farm.
- Working without herbicides: nice for us, for animals, for nature.
- The fatigue of organic rice that has to compete with grass and struggle to be born.
- The flowering of rice, a delicate moment.
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Rovasenda
Locality: Cascina Teglio
Cesare Maiolani
Date of birth: 01-16-1954
Year: 1954
City: Goito
Profession: Farmer
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Ghiardo
Video by: Luca Ghiardo
Created: 11-05-2021
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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.
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