Here I m am again in Lilia s Rural Paradise: a guardian of old time agricultural traditions of Tuscany. You can t understand our culture without meeting people like her. May and June are the months of the year in wich Lilia enjoys the most her garden with the fruit trees and the vegetables that, after the flowering, start to offer thge first fruits. After all the hard work to prepare the soil, seeding and pruning Lilia sees her garden grow and change every day with the proudness of a mother with sons. quicktime 35 mb wmv 20,5 mb Write to Linda ARSIA website www.pollodelvaldarno.it TP.tv Show # 55 TP.tv Show # 57 Lilia s and her daughter Linda take me for a visit to the chicken run where they breed the original pollo del valdarno (a local chicken variety), turkeys and peacocks: the noises of these animals get even higher when they notice me and this makes you feel like an intruder in their private world. A turkey hen is sitted on chicken hen s eggs. Lilia explains me that this is a natural method, very common in the past times when they didn t had industrial incubators: a female of turkey can sit on much more eggs then hens and this was the only way to increase the production.
