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There was a strong female component awarded in this edition of Oscar Green, a sign of an agriculture that many under 40s are also looking at with determination.
From the Island of Falconera, a bucolic quiet corner in the lagoon, where the overtourism crowding of the Venetian calli seems light years away, comes the winner of the category Custodi d'Italia (Guardians of Italy), designed to reward companies that contribute to enhancing business and work opportunities in marginal territories.
At one time, this island was part of Venice's vegetable gardens and its farmers supplied the city with vegetables, greens and honey. And it is precisely this tradition that the Sarzetto company helps to preserve, producing typical local vegetables, starting with artichokes, asparagus and tomatoes. Of particular value, then, are its honey qualities, from barena honey to millefiori lagoon honey.
Anna Sarzetto, born in 1993, presented her project 'The island to save, a dream come true' at Oscar Green. The entrepreneur has many projects to take forward and relaunch the Isola di Falconera farming company: first of all, starting up the aquaculture activity, which is written in the DNA of the place, although abandoned for some time. And then also to tell the island's typical features, the very short supply chain from the land to the plate, through a small farmhouse immersed in its eighteen hectares, two of which are used for production while the rest are wild reserves, precious for that biodiversity that contributes to sustainability in agriculture.
First in the category Coltiviamo insieme (Let's grow together), aimed at companies, cooperatives, agrarian consortia and start-ups that develop product and process innovations with stakeholders in the supply chain, to the benefit of agri-food companies and consumers, was Elena Gottardi from Bassano.
