PER – Park for Renewable Energy
PER is the result of a couple’s desire to put into practice the huge amount of theories that they had been studying...
Happy degrowth and self-production: a desirable choice
by Lucia Cuffaro, vice president of the Italian Happy Degrowth Movement. “Growth, development and social progress. Does the GDP measure everything?”,...
La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza: a permaculture farm and agritourism in Italy
In 2009 we decided to purchase 68 hectares of land in the Apennines, on the edge of the National Park of the...
EARTHSHIP: self-sufficient living at La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza – Italy
Beside being the primary element for farming activities, synergistic vegetable gardens, animals and the Farm’s life in general, the earth is also...
Biointensive gardening at La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza
Since 2016 at La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza we have cultivated vegetables for the agritourism, direct sales and the Macrolibrarsi Store in Cesena, by...
Permaculture: where are we in Italy
By Elena Parmiggiani Many are the small and big organisations that apply and communicate this method and the values that it shares....
Why does Macrolibrarsi invest in local economy and self-sufficiency?
What we buy and where we buy it can make a large-scale impact; therefore, we chose to support ethical and local projects...
An ever-living fire
How we designed and built the original storage heating stove at La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza “It’s warm even when it’s turned off”. This...
Bill Mollison: the revolution disguised as gardening
by Elena Parmiggiani In memory of the man who conceived new ecosystems connected to permaculture and changed the way of thinking of...
Let’s learn from trees to be better people
di Melania Tizzi per La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza. The seminar held by Peter Wohlleben at La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza allowed us to take a closer...
Integrating and valuing margins
Relationship as key element in Permaculture design. Permaculture was conceived as a design system that integrates harmoniously men and environment: home, food,...
Biochar: a resource for a more sustainable agriculture
Biochar is charcoal made from wood or biomass via pyrolysis, a process in which the thermal decomposition of organic materials takes place...