CURRENT MISSION

Imagining a better world, making the first steps to realize it!

ABOUT ME

My name is Tommaso. I was born and grew in Milan (amazing city if you can penetrate its underground life)! My parents brought my brothers and me all around Europe since we were child. I had my first oversea travels in 2002 (Palestine and then India), then I simply couldn't stop travelling. I have been living here and there, mainly in western Africa, between 2004 and 2009. In 2008 I met Céline; we lived, worked, studied and travelled together for some time, until we decided to come in Martinique and begin a new farming life (that was by the end of 2010). I guess will stay at least a while!

PHILOSOPHY

I can't say I have ONE personal philosophy. Others, way smarter than me, came up with short sentences and aphorisms that resume pretty well some of my thoughts:
Be the changement you wish to see in the world
Your freedom ends where my freedom begins
You can fix all the world's problem in a garden
If i can be a part of the solution I am a part of the problem
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children
...to be continued...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For the moment we host, too much work to do on the land so we can't travel much...hope to surf as well soon enough!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We hosted some travellers here in Martinique and in Paris!

Interests

Music (I play saxophone, tuba and sousaphone), bicycle (riding, travelling, reparing, critical-massing ;) ), cooking, agriculture of course, travelling, reading, movies...and many other things!

• cooking
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• snowboarding
• agriculture
• permaculture
• learning
• farming
• playing music
• climbing
• agroecology

Music, Movies, and Books

I love jazz, reggae, brass bands (Youngblood above all!), dubstep..
I read quite a lot of novels (Murakami, Coetzee, Steinbeck, Vargas Llosa, Zweig,...), I was really touched by some essays (Jared Diamond, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry,...).
Can't say about movies...I saw soooo many!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

What we are doing right here and now is pretty amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to share all the things that the land is teaching me, I'd love to learn everyday more...and anyone can teach me sooooo much!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Dominica, Egypt, France, Gambia, Germany, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Maldives, Martinique, Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Togo, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Benin, Burundi, France, India, Italy, Martinique, Senegal

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