Casa Robino

hello friends! I just returned to Italy and started a masters course in gastronomy and human ecology... lots of eating and a lot of informations that I would like to share. It's kind an academic approach about ideas we've been discussing about for years!
Reading this particular essay "Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty" by Jack Kloppenburg I just couldn't stop thinking about all the people I met in and around casarobino and who have first taught me about open source...

Ha, I thought this is a funny image: the stats of our website visitors. We used to be at 3500 a month, now down to 800-900. Wonder how come :-)

Oh wow! They actually are sailing! I can't believe that Charlie and Lily are sailing off from the United States and are headed for Australia. Lily wrote a little bit about it on her blog. And there is this video as well. Happy voyage you two!

"premium" even, says packaging.
Skipped along with loads of fancy shit (organic oat cookies!) last night in Dresden, Germany.

Many hugs!

Surprises, I love 'em! Just in front of the casa we now have a give away shop! I was contacted by Olga, who lived with Heather whilst in London, telling me she is just opening a give-away-shop in the building in front of the casa.

On Feb. 10 it will be five years ago I received the keys of this beautiful home, a home that has been created by so many of you. I would like to celebrate this moment and therefore we are throwing a nice little party. With soup, pasta madre bread and tapas.

Ah, and by nice chance it is also Novi's half a year celebration, so he will be the host of honour :-)

At 5 months Novi already starts rocking out the casa.

Miaaauw. What a silence here on the website. Well in the casa it's all loud. There is this baby here that just keeps on screaming from being so excited about life. And guess what?! All the attention goes to him. Prrrr. Well I guess it is natural. It is a little human you know and not a bird and one day I can also get cuddles from him... Prrrrrrr.

If you put all the books you own on the street outside your house, you might expect them to disappear in a trice. But one man in Manila tried it - and found that his collection grew.

Hernando Guanlao is a sprightly man in his early 60s, with one abiding passion - books.

They're his pride and joy, which is just as well because, whether he likes it or not, they seem to be taking over his house.

Guanlao, known by his nickname Nanie, has set up an informal library outside his home in central Manila, to encourage his local community to share his joy of reading.