The middle school years were difficult, after 3 years of bullying my interpersonal skills changed, I became more introverted and grumpy, but I started to get passionate about oriental disciplines such as meditation and martial arts.

Due to a health problem I had at birth, my parents never allowed me to practise martial arts, but I finally met my first master at the age of 20 and began a journey with him that led me to meet my first reiki master and to gain my much-dreamed of black belt and instructor rank.

With the death of my first dog, the need to devote time to people facing death was born in me and, thanks to my first Reiki master, I got to know an association in Turin that deals with accompanying the terminally ill and offers teachings derived from Tibetan Buddhism during the training course.

However, I decided to become a farmer during a volunteer trip to Africa in 2009, when I witnessed the agricultural reality of a local farm that had around 3,000 employees and thus the importance of creating food, jobs and protecting the environment.

A part of my heart has remained in Africa to this day and will never leave, and every time I returned to those places (Kenya, Guinea, Congo and Ethiopia) in the following years until 2015, the desire to be of help to others was reinforced in me.

Back in Italy after the first trip, I enrolled in university.

In the early years of my return to the classroom, I met a custodian of ancient Mexican traditions and in the summer of 2012 I went to Mexico to receive teachings of nahualismo, the ancient local spiritual tradition.

Back in Italy, I delved into other shamanic traditions, especially related to the natives of North America, and realised that these teachings were imbued with the same love of nature and life that had already been passed on to me by my grandfather. I could see clearly that the union of agriculture and spirituality would be my path.

After completing my agricultural studies, I found this farmstead and finally, in 2018, I moved to San Marzano Oliveto, to give concrete form to my dream: to create a place that can be a source of harmony and wellbeing for people through the creation of holistic events and to be able to pass on to new generations the same values that were given to me by my grandfather: protecting and cultivating the land, being of help to oneself and others, and producing healthy food.

There have certainly been many difficulties in these years, since I have gone from books to the land, from theory to practice, but there have also been many satisfactions, both in the small things like having fresh eggs in the morning, living by eating what the land gives you, and in the big things like achieving the first grape harvest or planting the first new fruit fields.

There were also many difficulties during the renovations because I had to divide myself between the agricultural part, the work in progress and the bureaucracy, but in the end I managed it.