Our Gardens

6 CO2 + 6 H2O + ☼ → C6H12O6 + 6 O2.

The formula for photosynthesis is one of the most beautiful things, because it is also the formula for life. Plants and trees are something that comes down from above, with the sun and the rain and the air. Every single day we can see this amazing and life-affirming synthesizing process happening before our eyes. In Danish, they say about someone you want to insult that they have ‘soil in their head’. But we like to take that on ourselves! We really have ‘soil in our heads’ here at Monte Preti! And we feel a little wiser every day about the magical processes and symbiosis that takes place right before our eyes. Down in the soil there is an incredible micro life where fungi and bacteria exchange substances and signals between each other. Soil is alive and vibrating. And in the compost heap there is a lively conversation and re-composition of material. The dead organic material is transformed into new, vibrant and powerful material. It is a gigantic party - and you are also invited.

The top of the mountain consists of olive groves, a vineyard, a botanical garden with fruit trees, vegetable gardens, a bee yard and a coppice forest.

‘Nature does not hurry,

yet everything is accomplished’

Lao Tzu
book - Tao Te Ching

OLIVES

BEES

VINES