Silvia Tomasoni
Cascina Santa Teresa
Silvia Tomasoni, born in 1971, has been running the family farm with great passion for about a decade. Observing her fields, Silvia, she noticed that despite the repeated treatments with synthetic products, the weeds returned each time stronger and more resistant. Starting from this observation, she decides to change the paradigm and test the organic farming method already successfully tried by some neighbors on a part of her land. Today the company, partially converted to organic, produces ancient rice varieties such as Rosa Marchetti but also Carnaroli in its classic variety, bedrooms and restaurants as well as the direct resale of rice. From her testimony, the bond with her land and the feeling of being part of a long journey that began with her ancestors and will continue with the younger generations in a delicate balance between memory, tradition and innovation emerge strongly.
Video table of contents
- Presentation.
- The conversion to organic farming.
- The importance of living in a cleaner territory.
- The organic cultivation of Rosa Marchetti and the attempts on Carnaroli.
- Rotations with soy: not rice on rice!
- A dream, to grow organic Carnaroli.
- Brusnengo PDO rice from Baraggia.
- Crops and wild animals, an ongoing relationship.
- The disappearance of the frog and the dry cultivation techniques.
- Carp in the paddy field.
- I was born in the midst of laughter but I didn't really know what surrounded me.
- In my area, a different attention to the environment.
- A woman on the farm.
- From rice as a commodity to branded rice: the world of paddy fields opens up to the outside world.
- The importance of training and comparison.
- The water in the paddy field.
- The nuns' rice soup.
- Rice in southern Italy: a food for "sick".
- The importance of making known not only the rice itself but also the way it must be cooked.
- Rice is good for everyone: intolerant and allergic.
- A successful model to be inspired by: the Stocchi di Rovasenda company and the experimentation of organic rice.
- Have agricultural vehicles blessed.
- The bunches of rice as decoration for the house, now not done anymore.
- The emotion of the harvest time.
- The best moments of the agricultural year: my whole life.
- My mother's rice soup with frogs and the continuity between generations through memory.
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Brusnengo
Silvia Tomasoni
Year: 1971
School: High school or Secondary
Profession: Farmer
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Ghiardo Luca
Video by: Ghiardo Luca
Created: 13-04-2021
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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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