Bread for our teeth!

At the beginning of 2020 I met Aldo, who makes bread, loves his job, his land and people and who is really an understatement to define a baker. He collaborated in the realization of the project "Short chain of Trentino bread", which since 2010 has been involved in the cultivation of cereals in the Valle dei Laghi in Trentino. The objectives were multiple and all noteworthy: from the recovery of the abandoned mountain territory to the restoration of a cereal crop that has almost disappeared to the advantage of the monoculture of apple trees and vines, from the enhancement of small peasant realities, solidarity buying groups and all people who for various reasons were willing to get involved and believe in the project, the possibility of providing a native product, grown and transformed according to biological criteria. A real utopia, a revolution!

In the Valle dei Laghi in Trentino, for ten years the "Short supply chain of Trentino bread" project has been dedicated to enhancing the production of local bread, from the cultivation of cereals to the finished product and its marketing.

“Bread for our teeth” is the photographic project to which I dedicated myself for two years which tells the virtuosity of a territory and its inhabitants through the short supply chain of bread.

Aldo, Marino, Cinzia, Luca, Sara, Marco, Corrado and Elia are just some of the protagonists of a revolution whose objectives are transversal and multiple, united by the centrality of cereals and sustainability, declined on several fronts. The focus is on the production of bread throughout its supply chain, but equally important are the aspects of territorial revaluation and social and economic restructuring.

A lot has been focused on environmental sustainability, through the use of ancient grains originating from San Pastore, overcoming the concept of monoculture of apple trees and vines to recover the different pre-existing cereal varieties and therefore be able to enhance even the small plots that had previously been abandoned because they are not functional to monoculture.

We are dedicated to social sustainability by creating new synergies between farmers and owners of small plots, research institutes in the agricultural field, local institutions, bakers, solidarity purchasing groups, also involving a community recovering from addictions.

Economic sustainability is achieved thanks to a circular economy, which enhances the resources of the territory, the possibility of supplying an indigenous product, at zero km, grown and processed according to biological criteria: the right Bread for our teeth.