I hope everyone is doing well, we are now in Florence, enjoying pizza and ice cream that you can only find here in Italy. Anyways, Muk's post did a great job giving y'all a recap on our trip out of Rome. But I am here posting about what we saw on our drive to Florence, the Tuscany Valley. I've never seen something so beautiful, you could see stretches of long green fields and the mountains looked like pieces of art.
I did some research and I gathered the following:
The Tuscany Valley is just about all natural, at the beginning (a few decades ago) small family farms would grow grape-vines, olives, and cereals. The vineyards would produce high quality wines, and as well as olive oils. Also many breeding activities with cattle, sheep, and swine, but not to the extent of the meat industries found in the states.
But what I am getting at is I believe that the resources that the valley has to offer are being used in a respectful manner-for example, we saw vineyards but they were all a respectful size. I think its great that Italy is able to use this land and not over milk it. It is quite expensive to buy quality wine from the valley but that's the point, its the real deal.
Also we saw that there would be random hills and they would have fields around them but piled on top were apartment typed buildings, all about the same color (olive yellow ish) but we thought about it. I don't know if this is true but we concluded that back when they were building houses, it was better to have them not on the flat land, maybe due to farming, but also because it is a better defense tactic. But I thought that as people become more careless and such it may effect the environment around them, as in runoff.
Well that is all I have for this post, tomorrow we head to Venice!!
Tuk
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