L' Orto in Campania

L'Orto in Campania is an educative garden of six hundreds square meters near Naples, Italy founded in 2011.

From the beginning it collaborates with Slow Food (Education Department) and it hosted the Yale Soustainble Food Project and the Rome SFP to held workshops together. 

Alice Waters visited us in 2013

The garden is the final step of the waste management cycle which has been incepted in Campania Shopping Centre since January 2011. In fact, the organic waste of the 25 restaurants and bars of the shopping centre is processed and transformed in a rich and fertile compost used to nurture the vegetables in the garden. 

We chose to preserve the memory of our botanical heritage and agricultural knowledge of our ancestors selecting mostly local and traditional varieties such as: san marzano tomato, seccagno tomato, papacella napoletana, San Pasquale courgette and many Italian Slow Food Presidia 

The garden hosts classes held by 20 educators that focus on different topics such as food education, waste management, compost, soustainability, food chains, agronomy, etc.

The garden hosts 10K kids (students and visitors) per year, working with 50 school nearby.