Title: Mother Earth and organic food, a stop in Plankstetten in Bavaria
Subtitle: The new chapter of the journey of 'On the way - Abbeys of Europe'
Organic put into practice to save, if not the world, at least a portion of it.
It is the spirit that guided Plankstetten Abbey at the end of the 1980s, when Abbot Bede Maria Sonnenberg launched an alliance with the agricultural world to reverse the progressive deterioration of the territory and forest around Nuremberg due to acid rain.
He himself told it in the fifth stage of 'On the way - Abbeys of Europe', the initiative organized by Livia
Pomodoro
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“That challenge – said Sonnenberg – has today brought about a significant transformation in baking, butchery and honey production.
Plankstetten then achieved a further important step: from bio-agriculture to the bio-sustainability of environments with the very innovative construction of straw houses".
Sonnenberg spoke at the conference entitled "Mother Earth, Plankstetten queen of bio" which was also attended by Wener Ebert, coordinator of the Nuremberg biometropolis; the Italian consul in Munich Sergio Maffettone, Livia Pomodoro, Unesco chair, Claudio Serafini, director of the Organic Cities Europe and Stefania Iacomi, councilor of the Municipality of Fiesole.
"The experience of Plankstetten and the more recent one of Fiesole – said Maffettone – underline the importance of a social heritage that these realities set in motion: a new gaze and a new relationship with the territory and with the populations that these experiences live It would be very interesting - he then proposed - if this growing sensitivity, taking advantage of and above all networking between these experiences, was brought to the attention of UNESCO."
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