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Gardener, builder and guide: life returns to the abandoned village.

Predalbora, municipality of Farini province of Piacenza. 

It happens that being an agricultural entrepreneur ends up becoming the guardian and guardian of an entire country. Gardener, maintainer, sexton and even mayor, if your vote alone is enough to elect you. Càpita, and it happened to Francesco Chinosi, who clung his fate to the memories of a child. Of that child who was led by the hand by his grandfather in what was an abandoned village, with a few elderly peasants left, a few chimneys still lit and a small and sad church. Francesco has decided to return to that village. And to stay there. To reopen the stone street, to rebuild the alleys, alleys, to keep landslides and landslides at bay, to rearrange the gardens, to guard and take care of the church. Here Francesco decided to bring back to life and definitively cut the inextricable tangles of brambles that devoured the houses. Everything starts from the idea of reviving an ancient crop. To go back to planting potatoes. Francesco buys and rents the land and, after having cleaned and re-fertilized it, starts the agricultural activity of the organic plantation of potatoes and cereals for the production of flour. Those that even Oscar Farinetti asked for for his Eataly shops, ground with an ancient artisan mill. Today Francesco has the keys of the village, those of the church and of the houses. Who is it who said that to become great you have to know how to make yourself small

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