\nI\u2019m Emanuela, I was born in Ror\u00e0, in Val Pellice, and I live there. I\u2019m a naturalist and a nature guide, I have a Natural Science degree and the idea behind my work is to make people love nature and our territory.<\/em><\/p>\n
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What do you like more in Waldensian Valleys? Ok, and if you had to choose something you don\u2019t like, what would you say? What would you do to give value to the Valleys? For instance? In collaboration with the museum of Natural Science of Torino, I\u2019ve prepared an exposition about edible plants focused on the simplicity: my idea is to encourage people to read the informations about the plants, and this must be quick and easy.<\/em><\/p>\n Another example is the \u201cmiele degli uomini\u201d (literally \u201cthe honey of the men\u201d), that is absolutely not \u201creal\u201d honey, but a jelly made by dandelion flowers and it\u2019s called in this way because the female bees, who actually make honey, don\u2019t have anything to do with it!<\/em><\/p>\n Meeting Emanuela and her enthusiasm gave me the idea of doing something together, and so we organized Passeggiate con Valdesina, dedicated to kids between 5 and 12 years. The idea is to spend an afternoon discovering the territory, telling stories and making activities related to the local environment. I can\u2019t wait the time to know you, my little friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi all! This post is the first in a series of special ones: in these articles I\u2019m not going to take you around our valleys and their stories, but, with the help of a guest, I\u2019m going to tell you something curious about our territory. Today I\u2019m together with the naturalist Emanuela Durand, who\u2019s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[660,38,41,198,252,408,659],"tema":[],"area":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria-en","tag-recipe","tag-rora","tag-rora-en","tag-valli-valdesi","tag-valli-valdesi-en","tag-waldensian-valleys","tag-wild-flowers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/copertina-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI love the landscapes and many places in this area: for me \u201chome\u201d is this environment and our mountains. I think it\u2019s important to give value to the beauty of these valleys, and for that I always try to encourage people to discover the mountains. Not only: I love to take naturalistic photos with a conscious approach and to use photography to highlight the aspects of nature that I\u2019ve known through my studies.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/foto_emanuela_durand.jpg\")
\nWell, I don\u2019t like that people who lives here aren\u2019t aware of the beauty that sorrounds them. Often we go and search for exotic places, but we ignore that there\u2019s something beautiful right behind our backyard!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nOne of the things I started to do recently is to try to spread what I learned about wild herbs writing my thesis. I did a class about this and I\u2019d like to keep alive the knowledge that our ancestors had about the uses of edibles wildplants. When we walk through a meadow we step on a lot of herbs without even knowing that many of them could be great in a salad!<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erbe_frittata.jpg\")
\nA woman from Pomaretto told me that her aunt used to cook her a porridge made by milk, pastina and Elderflowers, but she confessed me that the final result wasn\u2019t so good! But we sometimes forget that there are many delicious recipes, like the omelette made with aromatic herbs.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spumante_sambuco.jpg\")
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\nThe first walk will take place in Luserna San Giovanni on Saturday, the 29th of April<\/strong>, when we\u2019re starting to walk from the temple of San Giovanni and we\u2019re arriving to Azienda agricola Belvedere.
\nThe second event will be on Saturday, the 13th of May<\/strong>, in Pinasca: the departure is in Piazza Internati Militari Italiani and the arrival is at Fontana dell\u2019Orsa.
\nFor booking and informations, please write to passeggiate.valdesina@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n