Back to the land: young Italians find la dolce vita in a return to farming

A new generation is redefining what it means to be a farmer, abandoning well-paid jobs in the cities to tend their plots with passionWords by Silvia MartelliPhotographs by Stefania PrandiWhen he was 23, Giacomo Perletti came across old photos of the Contrada Bricconi farmhouse in Bergamo, Lombardy, its 15th-century buildings abandoned on the side of a mountain. Despite his youth, and not yet having completed his agricultural studies, Perletti knew immediately he wanted to take it on."My desire was guided by a very specific purpose: to give a completely new meaning to the figure of a farmer," he says. Continue reading...