While the Gran(i)tour preparations are proceeding, Wolgang’s wheat is growing. You can find a picture from April 10 here…for more information, or if you are growing wheat and would like to send a picture from your fields:
Also Mauro Tirannosauro has verified: the first batch of T-shirts is ready, so we can start their distribution to support the 2024 Jug Band Colline Metallifere Gran(i)Tour.
What is the peculiarity of this apparel? All drawings and all of the printing process is made by hand, just like Gutenberg!
To order your T-shirt please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228, indicating the number of shirts per size. The cost of one T-shirt is 20 Euro, plus shipping. In general, we like the idea of delivering our products personally, or that we can give them to you directly at one of our events, but this is not always possible, so shipping is an option!
For more details about the Gran(i)Tour: https://www.pibinko.org/granitour24en/
Our friends from Agricamping Ixtlan in Tatti, Southern Tuscany, told us the the camping is now ready to receive guests. In addition to the camping, we remind you of the products from their farming activity, in addition to various situations which you may experience in this hamlet in the Metalliferous hills.
For more information: https://agricampingtatti.it…and don’t forget that this year we have the Tatti Twist!
For other episodes of Maremma in Diretta with stories from the pibinko.org network: https://www.pibinko.org/it/?s=maremma+in+diretta – for more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228. All the episodes are in Italian.
On April 20, in Selvena, on the Amiata mountain area in Southern Tuscany, there has been a meeting of the Estover (Usi Civici, in Italian) administrations for commons in the province of Grosseto. If you are not aware of Estovers, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estovers.
The meeting was the opportunity, after many years without this type of gathering. for an overview on this type of institution in the area of Grosseto, considering technical aspects, issues, and opportunities.
From Tatti we had the possibility of summarizing some of our experiences in the field of community mapping, as well as documentation and promotion of lesser known aspects of our territories. We hope that these ideas of interest also for other administrators.
The meeting was attended by around fifty people overall, and the day was closed with the plan to schedule another meeting soon, so as to continue along a common path.
In the map below, the locations were “Usi Civici” exist in the Grosseto area (please note that the point refer to the main location, and not to the areal extension of the interested land).
For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
Today Dario (Canal) and Wolfgang (Scheibe) are at work in the Tattistampa shop, for the hand-made printing of the first batch of T-shirts for the upcoming Jug Band Colline Metallifere Gran(i)Tour between Tuscany, Trentino, and Germany, from June 14 to June 29.
It is possible to pre-order your T-shirt writing to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228, indicating the size and the number of T-shirts per size. The cost of one T-shirt is 20 Euro, plus shipping, if required.
As you can see from the header image, the subject of the shirts is kept as a mistery for now, but you can review the shirts from the last years:
For more news on ASBUC Tatti: https://www.pibinko.org/it/?s=asbuc+tatti
Before the Gran(i)tour starts rolling, we want to put in our sandbox some information about wheat and grains!
We started by adding to the map of the project the origin of different varieties of wheat that our one-string-bass player Wolfgang Scheibe is experimenting in Maremma, Southern Tuscany.
If you have a project concerning grains (ancient, organic, you name it, as long as they are good), and you would like to present it in the context of the Gran(i)Tour, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
In the header image, Wolfgang’s grains in the Bruna Valley, Southern Tuscany, as of April 10, 2024.
The June Gran(i)Tour has been advertised by the Institute of Italian Culture in Stuttgart among “Other happenings in the institute’s area of operation”…in the past we have collaborated twice with Institutes of Italian Culture: in 2007 for the palla a 21 mission to Chicago and in 2008 with the Institute in San Francisco for the “Square around the ball” photo exhibition, so we appreciate this form of attention.
An English version of “Rock in Milano, Blues at la Rocca” by the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, adapted on the fly by Jack O’Malley during the “Rural Citizen Science” session at the ECSA Conference in Vienna (April 4, 2024). A city dweller and a country guy interact on their perceptions of urban and rural dimensions..
You live in the city, where people produce and innovate (x2)
But let me tell you something babe, you live in the city – for me it ain’t that great!
Monday morning, you get on the bus, you go to work, in the same old fuss
Then in the week-end you’re all lined up in cars, for shopping or recreation, but that’s like behind bars..
So you’re living in the city, most beautiful place on the earth
you live the ugly grey old city, but you don’t know what that is worth
You live in the country, you’re a small pin on my map (x2)
We come to see you in the Summer, but with the cold wind we leave with a snap
You’re driving an Ape – and maybe a tractor too
You’re diggin’ and sowin’ – with some of that rural blue
Enjoying the landscape, contemplating the sunset
but your village is dying, and this is something I don’t regret
So you’re living in the country, and you say rural is the best
But I feel fine here in the city, don’t care much about the rest!
Hey guys, don’t you realize, you’re getting nowhere: I ain’t telling no lies
Rural and urban, they have to mediate…
let’s have a common workshop, well: does not that sound great?
When the city folks go rural, and the farmers go to town
With live music for more outreach, and cit-science all around…