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INPRIMATU
The garden, the most revolutionary
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Baratze txikia Todmordenen, Ingalaterra. (Arg: Anita Mathas)
Baratze txikia Todmordenen, Ingalaterra. (Arg: Anita Mathas)

I opened a bottle of wine for a celebration. The wine is made in a hamlet of Sara, for home. Put the cider in the bottle and it looks very similar to cider: in the mouth is dancer, short alcohol, no traces of taste of wood and the final... A category ending, magnificent! Like cider, grape wine is also becoming more and more at home. Anyone who knows how to combine health with quality of life knows perfectly the level of articles he has made at home.

Sara’s farmhouse bears the name of “Ihitia”, and the Urbistondo family works on it a lot of exquisite foods: cider, must, cider vinegar, grape vinegar, honey, cheese, paté and other disgusting... I, from time to time, have the honour to taste one of them; today, excellent wine 2012. Burgundy and Bordeaux, they're on site!

The growth of each and every child is one, very different from the measure of neighbor and crowd. Having at hand a quality livable alternative, rather than rights, is a tiredness of the way. Hence the importance of the garden. The orchard is the beginning of the world. The orchard is the only thing we can do today. It's almost the only one. Revolutionaries. To touch the land, to feed on the high thanks to the land, to value the real value of food, to recognize the work of the peasants... Municipal gardens are better. By making an orchard between people, it becomes a popular revolution. Money knows this: the power of the future lies in controlling food production. Let's make orchards. The vegetable garden itself will bring chickens, pig stables, herds, cheese shops, apples, wineries... Experience joy.

We are becoming aware that there are more and more places where people live in the garden. In Todmorden, England, they have woken up and come to light. In 70 summers of the city they cultivate fruit trees, vegetables, fine herbs, etc. Of the 15,000 inhabitants, 270 work as volunteer workers over two mornings a month. The harvest of this work is available to anyone, including the tourist. The first one you see when you arrive by train is a map of these orchards and fruit trees. And in it he wrote “Help yourself!”, “Take!”.

This is a year in which the hope is that in 2018 it will be fully self-sufficient.