Ecosystem services
" The numerous and varied benefits
that humans derive from natural ecosystem "
We created in our farm a natural ecosystems from which humans
derive multiple benefits expressing our work value.
Our fields are not just a warehouse of healthy foods, genetic
information and source of biological variability but they also
became “information and consultation containers”
and they contribute to the human health maintenance also through
reflection moments, spiritual enrichment, cognitive development,
recreational and aesthetic experiences.
Una Garlanda develops many social activities with people active involvement...
Thanks to our courses, field teaching, seeds conservation and
exchange, recreational moments, Bioblitz, workshops our cultivated
areas act not just as a refuge and protection land for wild plants and
animals but they can host groups of people who rediscover a new cultural perception
observing the real biological life with the help of expert researchers.
Our rice fields agroforestry system provides several ecosystem services:
- a more efficient use of natural resources
- carbon sequestration in the wood of trees and in the soil organic matter
- increase in soil fertility
- protection of the soil from erosion
- air and water purification
- increase in biodiversity
- renewable energy sources
- landscape ecology: a more welcoming, pleasant and “therapeutic” environment