I call so this blog because I really am proud of my humble origins...
They go back to rural culture of my land, once I did not understand, I did not appreciate the preciousness of teachings, sacrifices and the huge cultural baggage hidden behind every action that my parents and my grandparents have done in their life, now that I grew up I developed a great respect for those roots which now I am so firmly attack every day more!
So... a litle bit of "history":
Farmer is maybe the first real job since the existance of hominid.
They were originally nomadic, they moved constantly following the migration of their prey in order to avoid food shortages.Agriculture was one of the reason that made the man settled in a specific place. So the beginning was to bury the seeds on earth, make them blossom and reap benefits and simplifying... here the born of professions and trade!
First with the "barter" the farmer trade a part of his collect for get something that did not have, later on ages, with the invention of money, it will be for a financial return. This way of living was the main occupation of the majority of humans to the twentieth century.
The High Middle Ages, the Sharecropping is a system of production that has characterized more than seven centuries of farming in the center of Italy, it finished in the last decades of the twentieth century due to industrial revolution.
The history of sharecropping dates back in ages, when the feudal lords, owners of the lands surrounding their castles, decided to entrust their lands to their servants, in order to make they worked by dividing expenses and earns with the landowner.
The result is the born of the farmer or sharecropper, particularly spreading in areas outside the main roads leading waterways, roads and railways that, for logistical reasons, have instead given way to the development of trade and other professions.
Life of the sharecropper was organized so that he should not remain to laze the day, but his day was marked by agriculture. The farmer's house was located directly on the farm or on the edge of it.
In the house usually lived members of three or four generations of family: grandparents, children and grandchildren. The whole family was involved in the tasks and work with different tasks, but they were all aimed to achieve the best made possible by earth.
The interest of the feudal lord and the peasant had for the cultivation of the land, led to the exploitation of even the smallest piece of agriculture, diversifying production. Often, the vineyards were alternating with olive groves, chestnut trees with nuts, apple and mulberry trees to wheat to barley.This gives rise to the wide and varied production of agricultural products of Tuscany.
Even today, the products of the area are the evidence of that ancient tradition that saw close to the vineyards, olive groves with trees.
Sharecropping as the original and ancient method of working the land, was the basis for the development of agriculture in Tuscany that still continues today to be one of the most important activity.
This processing system of the area, lasted until the middle of 1900, affecting the level of the sharecropper family's social and agricultural landscape of Tuscany that still characterizes the area.
