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Agroforestry rice cultivation
UNIQUE FEATURES OF UNA GARLANDA
The only European example of Agroforestry in rice
cultivation (rice growing under trees): over 15,000 trees and shrubs planted along 80 km rows.
Ecological rice cultivation
UNIQUE FEATURES OF UNA GARLANDA
Rice cultivation accompanied Ecological actions accompany rice cultivation, making landscape more complex, rich, multifaceted, dynamic and at the same time protected.
Protection of Biodiversity
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Active ecological commitment in order to reintroduce in
the agricultural environment plant and animal species that
have disappeared and/or are in danger of survival.
University Collaborations
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Collaboration with 6 universities and 8 university
departments with specific actions and projects on different levels in order to increase and protect natural and cultivated biodiversity: flora, soil fauna, aquatic micro and macro fauna, invertebrates, amphibians, ancient cultivars, etc.
Stocchi Method
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We are creators and promoters of the “Stocchi method”; this method known and studied all over the world allows rice to grow without any treatment, neither chemical ones
nor those allowed by organic agriculture and it reduce by 70% the water and diesel consumption.
Custodia di varietà storiche di Riso
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Conservation of historical rice varieties
Historical rice varieties conservation (linked to centuriesold genomes that have improved their epigenetic baggage through self-reproduction experiences). Historical rice variety are robust, independent, complementary to the biodiversity of rice fields; they are more complete and tasty thanks to their nutritional value (health benefit for
people), as opposed to modified and modern varieties that favours the convenience of processing (benefit for industries) to the detriment of people and environment health.
Pileria esclusiva e lavorazione in pietra
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Exclusive stone mill process of rice
We have a dedicated "EXCLUSIVE" stone milling plant in order to close our virtuous process, because we consider food as an intimate, nutritional, personal and inviolable element which must reach the consumer intact in its physical and energetic essence. We use just simple/ecofriendly
paper packaging materials that eliminate plastic
pollution, social disposal costs and do not alter the food quality and taste.
Coinvolgimento della comunità
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People, actively involved, can "touch with their own hands" the farm reality and the production chain; they become direct witnesses and guarantors of good practices adopted by our farms (Bio blitz, citizen science activities participatory certification projects, etc.)