- Contact: Etaine Addey
- Email: goldiehel@gmail.com
- Telephone Number: 0039-3519232073
- Mailing Address:
Vallingegno 36, 06024 GUBBIO (PG) Italy
Focus:
We try to live as self sufficiently as we can. We have horses, donkeys, milk sheep, a vineyard, olive groves, four vegetable gardens, and a lot of fruit trees. Over these 40 years here, we have welcomed 10.000 visitors who came to join in the work and the play. Now we are older, life is quieter, and we see more wildlife, more birds and fewer visitors.
We are founding members of the Italian bioregional movement Sentiero Bioregionale (sentierobioregionale.org) and have various books on country life published (A Silent Joy/From the Deep Well/The Life of the White Mare, Eyebright Press UK, Etain Addey and Real Horsepower, Martin Lanz, Blackberry Books US, which are also published in Italian.
Bioregion Description:
We are in the Bioregion ALTO CHIASCIO, in the foothills of the Central Italian Apennines, 500 metres above sea level, in the watershed of the river Chiascio, which flows into the Tiber river thirty kilometres further south and thence to Rome and the Tyrrhenian sea. As we look down our valley, we can see Monte Subasio, a smoothly rounded mountain only 1.290 m high but somehow visible for many kilometres around. Our local mountains, part of the Apennine range, rising just behind Gubbio, are Monte Cucco (1.566 m.) and Monte Catria (1.701m.)
Here at Pratale we live in the midst of a slow, ongoing geological “earth tempest” which, eons ago, began to fold and tip and raise these Apennine mountains when the tectonic plate beneath Sardinia and Corsica, which once lay along what is now southern France, slammed into the west coast of the Italian peninsula. As the storm abates, these rocky heights fall back, creating intermittant plains, and we and all our neighbours and animals are sent running out into the night by earthquakes.
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