*I don't know why my answer rate is 57%!!! I write Cs assistance, but ...
PLEASE NOTE! IF I DON'T REPLY WITHIN 2 DAYS TO YOUR REQUEST, DON'T HESITATE TO CONTACT ME BY MOBILES AT 0039-3407275918 and 0039-3669362171, and write me a short message text (not a whatsapp) if my mobile sounds turned off (as I'm quite often traveling for business and very often I'm in poor connected lands). THANK YOU a lot!
Better if you send a copy of CS message also at my personal email: annalisamalerba83@riseup.net. Sometimes, CS doesn't work very well :/

CURRENT MISSION
Caring Earth, caring myself and plant, animals, people.

ABOUT ME
Hi!I'm Anna. Actually, I'm a farmer - better, try to be a true farmer. I'm also a cooking teacher - foraging, wild food, vegan food, teaching both professional chef and non professional people; I work too as a chef, a journalist and sometimes as author and translator (from English and from French).

PHILOSOPHY
Enjoy life

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope meet several people to share experiences, philosopy, lifestyle. I love deeply the people's stories. I'm waiting for yours! Also, when I travel I'd like to discover the local lifestyle. I don't like to be the classical, foreign tourist!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Unfortunately,I traveled very little...I hope it change.I
was generally at friend's home, it's important to can live the indigeneous'life. My Cs experience..at a glance, it's my life's philosophy :) Great!

Interests

Nature (Botany, Wild food foraging)
Social farming. Seed saving.Décroissance joyeuse.
Sustainability.Self-sufficiency, also in town!
Cooking, especially wild food and local food; fermented foods.
Art - every kind of art.
All about women:pregnancy-delivery-breastfeeding.
Ethnomedecine

• arts
• books
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• raw food
• vegan
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• cycling
• foraging

Music, Movies, and Books

Even if I ignore foreign languages, I like to read books and to watch films in thier own language, without translation.
no end number of books...
Masanobu Fukuoka, 'The one-straw revolution'
David Holmgren 'Permaculture'
Christa Wolf 'Medea'
Schumacher 'Small is beautiful'
Attar 'Il verbo degli uccelli'
Izrail Metter 'Muchtar'
Jean-Paul Sartre 'Le diable et le bon Dieu'
Spinoza 'Ethica more geometrico demonstrata'
Amélie Nothomb 'Métaphysique des tubes'
Albert Camus, La peste
Haiku poems
...

Movies:
Stanley Kubrick '2001 A space odyssey'
Lars Von Trier 'Dovgille' and 'Breaking the Waves'
Tarkovskji 'Andrei Rublev'
Almodovar 'All about my mother'
Pasolini 'Mamma Roma', 'Uccellacci e uccellini', 'Le 120 giornate di Sodoma'
Federico Fellini 'La strada'
Orson Welles 'Citizen Kane'
Pedro Almodovar 'Volver'
kim ki-duk 'Bin-Jip 3 - Iron'
Akira Kurosawa 'Dersu uzala'
...

Music:
Popular music of Salento
Astor Piazzolla's tangos
Paganini '24 capricci'
J.S.Bach 'Die Kunst der Fuge'
Caetano Veloso
Jacques Brel
Edith Piaf
Fabrizio De André
Grieg 'In the hall of mountain king'
Beethoven 'Rodolphe Kreutzer gewidmet'

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I conceived my babies.
I love sprouting vegetables and seeds. It's the cycle of life! See the photo.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach foraging, wild food, fermented food, but also vegan, raw and macrobiotic style of cooking and philosophy. Now, I'm looking for a good school of medical application of raw food.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Wild food, raw food, fermented foods, natural farming, gardening. Sure, seeds!

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Romania, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy

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