Day by day accounts here at Cascina Piola melt like sugar over a warm flame. One day is filled with tomatoes and sun, the next with a thunderous electric summer storm and weeding, the mosquitos and fresh cold spouting spring, the coming and going of guests, and blooming of new flowers every day. Raffaella and Piero comically juxtapose eachother's work methods with warm love and affection. Their house is dark lacking the light from outside but it keeps the coolness of the bricks and stucco ceilings, a welcome relief during breaks in the afternoons. Their house is cluttered with colorful posters from Columbia, Cuba, communist movements, Peru, Che Guevara, Terra Madre, and the promotion of biological all natural foods and lifestyles. Their library where I sit and write emails is filled from floor to ceiling on
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