Inaugurated today in Rome, on the roof of the FAO, a Bio-Garden with the aim of exploring the possibility of replicating organic roof gardens where the soil is scarce or not very productive to alleviate the shortage of food in the most fragile systems such as mountains and urban areas.
The terrace of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization - informs a note - hosts ancient organic varieties, including, to name a few relating to this season, Papecchia chilli, Catanese violet cauliflower, Catalonian chicory from Toast, the local celery from Francavilla Fontana and the Sweet Julie pepper. The plant species selected for cultivation come from the catalog fields of the Seminare il Futuro Foundation, of which NaturaSì belongs, "which has been involved for years in researching and selecting specific varieties for organic farming".
The organic garden, accredited as the first of its kind on a United Nations building, is created by NaturaSì with the University La Sapienza - Botanical Garden of Rome, by the startup Ecobubble and by Slow Food as members of the Mountain Partnership, alliance of the United Nations which aims to improve the lives of mountain populations and protect mountain environments, safeguarding biodiversity and high altitude agriculture.
the Bio-Orto can be the subject of guided tours and in three years it will be returned to NaturaSì for its installation at the Botanical Garden of Rome
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The Bio-Orto was inaugurated in the presence of the FAO Director General Qu Dongyu and the Deputy Director Maurizio Martina.
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