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  • Festival
    • Il Manifesto
    • Gallery
    • About
  • IV edition
    • The Garden of Plants
    • Landscape designers
    • 2023 Jury
    • 2023 Sponsors
  • Botanical Park
    • Permanent Installations
    • Educational Gardens
    • Horticultural Park
  • Previous editions
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    • Garden Appointments
    • Taking garden design inspiration from the wild landscape of Sicily
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Alla mensa di madre Etna

“Alla Mensa di Madre Etna” celebrates the richness of edible plants, depicting the great interaction between natural selection and human interference over time, which has led to today’s ecological diversity. The edible garden extends on the ash-grey ground like a lava tongue of the volcano that descends downstream, creating a tapestry of life, a plethora of colours and aromas. In fact, the “river” of edible species is oriented towards Etna, making them symbolically homage.

The garden is divided into three areas of edible essences: native wild plants, common native plants and cultivated plants. This succession is a dialogue between past and present, wild, and cultivated, pure and hybrid, origin, and co-evolution. In the middle of the garden there is a circular stone table that can be reached from every corner of the garden, without mandatory paths. The irregular paths left free from the vegetation allow you to walk gently in the garden, brushing shrubs and trees, allowing an intimate contact with the surrounding landscape.

“Alla Mensa di Madre Etna” is a celebration of abundance and resilience, a tribute to the Sicilian mainland, a tribute to those who hold the traditional botanical and medicinal knowledge of edible plants, as well as to gardeners and farmers today.

DESIGNER: Linda Grisoli and Gordon Goh
Partner: donna carmela resort&lodge
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Botanica S.r.l.
Strada 17, N. 19
Fraz. di S. Leonardello – Giarre (CT)
Tel. +39 095 964154
Mail: festival@radicepurafestival.com

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    • The Garden of Plants
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    • 2023 Jury
    • 2023 Sponsors
  • Botanical Park
    • Permanent Installations
    • Educational Gardens
    • Horticultural Park
  • Previous editions
    • 2019 Edition
    • 2021 Edition
  • Activity
    • Garden Appointments
    • Taking garden design inspiration from the wild landscape of Sicily
    • Call for Ideas 2023
    • Call for Volunteers 2023
    • Call for Mosaicists
    • Call for Ideas Keep Alive fhe Sense of Wonder
  • Plan your visit
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