🏢 About the local organisation
"Fiori di campo" is a confiscated property belonging to the Mafia of the maxi confiscation of 1993 of Vincenzo Piazza, considered the manager of the local mafia. Piazza laundered dirty money of Graviano brothers, in the public and private reinvesting. It is estimated that the "Calcestruzzi Piazza" firm amounted to more than 2,000 billion old lire. They has built palaces, schools, public buildings, between the 70s and 80s, in Palermo, in Sicily and in Tuscany.
The ecovillage Solidarity "Fiori di campo", in particular, was the summer residence of the family Piazza.
The name given to the structure confiscated, "Fiori di campo"(wild flowers), comes from a poem by Peppino Impastato. It is a leafy, cool place, 300 meters from the sea, near Torre Pozzillo. The property is managed since 2012 by the “Libera-Mente” cooperative that with the help of many volunteers and local associations have helped to make the “Campo Fiori” for an affordable and cozy place.
Volunteers can live different kind of activities in the confiscated property: community service, recycling and re-use workshops with scrap materials, agricultural work at the farm Talè (also handled by the Libera-Mente Cooperative) where they will be collected and brought to the table the bio products, we will move by bike to go to sea, will discuss critical consumption, it will deepen the L. 109/96 on social re-use of confiscated property, it will go around Palermo rediscovering places and flavors rich aromas of bitter but also sweet, you will retrace the "100 steps" in Cinisi distancing “Memory House” and the former “House Badalamenti”, you will taste the pastries of those who said no to the racket, they will hear testimonies of civil and social commitment.
💼 What the programme involves
Public interest and solidarity, reuse, recycling, territorial animation, gardening, mapping, creative workshops, cultural, culinary, enhancement of green areas and agriculture, cleaning, care and maintenance confiscated property. For each week there will be a priority of works and activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
At the eco-village "Fiori di campo", in rooms with several beds. A typical day:
After breakfast will be carried out work in the fields in the territory and confiscated property.
Before lunch you can go to the beach
Lunch will be cooked by volunteers with organic products harvested at km 0 (meals for vegetarians and vegans and for those who have allergies. Inform us!).
The kitchen is run by volunteers together with the managers of the project.
Afternoon: after a moment of rest you will be held training on the issues of legality or testimonies of civil commitment.
After dinner they will be organized group games or film club. The only condition is fit to workcamp life, self-management, which, although hard and Spartan will give much satisfaction for the service that you have available.