Rural Expo 2012, the Tuscany rural in action. Focus on initiatives for the future of oil and wine of Tuscany. Start today in the Parco delle Cascine of Florence, the second edition of Rural Expo 2012, a showcase of rural world at 360 degrees. For three days the park will be a real concentrate of rural Tuscany with all its biological, cultural wealthy. For Rural Expo there will be the productive sectors and the sectors of the rural Tuscan: olive growing, viticulture, and cereal crops, animal husbandry, hunting, horticulture, aquaculture, forest and woods. RURAL EXPO 2012 is made by the Tuscany Region in collaboration with the City of Florence, Unioncamere Tuscany, Tuscany Promotion Agency, the UPI, the Uncem and Anci Tuscany, the involvement of Professional Agricultural Organisations and with the technical support of Artex.
Rural Expo 2012: the spaces and rural experiences Its slogan is "Come and spend three days in the country while remaining in town! from the atmosphere to the food, the stories of the experience, everything will be authentically rural ". There will be 6 hectares of meadows and open air "fields", animals and fruits of the earth, stories and characters. And yet, 5500 square meters of covered areas including exhibitions and debates, meetings, stories and experiences, workshops and children's areas. Making a vegetable garden, baking bread, making oil, prune an olive tree, build an eco-friendly house grafting vines, taste the wines, oils and Tuscan products, discover the secrets of floriculture of traditional Tuscan cooking. Plus: a series of meetings, debates, seminars and insights to address and investigate issues and aspects of rural Tuscany as the "seed bank" or program for the protection and enhancement of native types. Here is a glimpse of the proposed Rural Expo: - "Picnic", "Women in the field" in the green snacks of bread and oil, bread and honey and bread and jam. - "Wine Bar" in collaboration with "The Italian Wine cellar where, every day - from 19.00 to 20.00 - you can do happy hour with excellent Tuscan wines, meats and cheeses in the area. -The country inn open air all eco-friendly products that offers regional food. Market-Tuscan producers with a "basket" of freshness, authenticity, seasonality. The commissioner for the future at Expo rural The Regional Minister for Agriculture Gianni Salvadori at the conference "Innovation and investment for rural development" "It 's time to make a joint reflection not only in relation to what has been revealed on the future CAP, but also on the recent European Commission proposals that put more and more emphasis on innovation, research and the dissemination of results to farmers to enable them to meet the challenges of the future. "
Focus Rural Expo 2012: Wine and Olive Oil The Tuscan rural heritage is valued as a garrison for the environment and the landscape, and for this have been called among other growers and winemakers. We see all the porposte quste for both sectors. Wine: the wine sector's activity at EXPO Rural Strategic objective to improve the competitiveness of the Tuscan wine is put in place sustainable production models with attention to environment, landscape and biodiversity So the choices for the future of wine should keep in mind ecological value, territorial and economy in the production of quality. To understand and disseminate the wealth of flavors and varieties is key to the future of the sector. And now these initiatives for Tuscan wine at Expo Rural Grapes Baby - The Game grapes: space for children in collaboration with the Museum of Children's Art of Santa Maria della Scala. Children in contact with the nature of wine paintings with leaves, small experiments, etc.. on grapes and its derivatives Parladivino Tuscany edition: Bottles speakers: there will be an exhibition "Parladivino, where each wine is connected to an online form with all its information about Tuscan wines exposed. Show on wines and Tuscan grapes: the exhibition on the great Tuscan wine and wine production, with special insights on Appellations of Tuscany. Project Vino & Young - Art de Vivre: Italian Wine project, part of the Pan-European project "Art de vivre", dedicated to the promotion of Drinkaware among young people between 18 and 30 years. Italian Enoteca Winebar the place where you can taste and buy some of the best wines of Tuscany Presentation of the Roads of Wine Oil ee Tastes of Tuscany with tastings of some of the best wines from the wine roads Oil: Olive Oil activities in the supply chain to Tuscany Rural Expo. The olive groves of the Tuscan hills have an important value for the Tuscany landscape and offer the oil is undoubtedly a product of high historical, cultural and economic. Approximately 92,000 hectares, 15 million trees, 50,000 farms, 400 mills: these numbers of Tuscany oil is now high production costs, which cause problems of profitability for companies. There is a need of refurbishment to build a bright future in this field. Rural Expo for oil offers a full path to discover the variety of olives in Tuscany and extra virgin olive oil -Tasting and presentation of the oils of the first regional selection of extra virgin olive oil PDO and PGI, organized by Unioncamere Tuscany, Promotion and Metropolis - Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence, with consortia PGI and PDO Tuscan Chianti Classico, Terre di Siena, Lucca and Seggiano -Lesson for adults and for children to become familiar with what is extra virgin olive oil, features, how it is used, how it preserves its strengths and weaknesses, by Metropolis - Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence . -Giocolivo: We know the olive tree. Bottling of olive cuttings in small pots made ??of natural and biodegradable. A laboratory designed to make known to future generations the production process of an olive tree with a very low environmental impact and completely recycled material. -Exposure of different varieties of olive tree pruning and grafting with lessons by Co.Ri.Pro. Consortium for the selection and control of the olive nursery material.
RURAL EXPO 2012 FLORENCE - Cascina Park - 2nd edition September 20 to 23 2012 - h 10:00 to 20:00
