Normally held twice each year, one in spring, the other in early autumn, they usually last 2 days. On the first day we go out to collect spontaneous edible plants in the Park territory, together with a botanist and an expert phytoalimurgic chef (many of the plants are listed in "THE HERITAGE OF THE TERRITORY"). In the afternoon the participants are guided in the preparation and processing of the collected herbs and in the cooking of the menu that will be served at dinner; Lamberto will show them how to prepare delicious sauces and syrups with some collected plants. The next morning we will continue to work with other herbs to prepare the lunch menu. In the afternoon the botanist will guide each member in the preparation of a precious herbarium of the plants collected and eaten, so that the participants can later find the tastes and flavors they enjoyed through those dried plants.

Dyeing wool in Abruzzo means rediscovering the ancient traditions of the past, the same dyeing plants that we find are part of the history of the area. We also organize 2 of these courses a year, it is easy to collect dyeing plants, the difficulties are organisational, since it would require very long working times dedicated to each single plant, so we rely on work sheets created previously so that the course can run out in two days.

Over the two days, dyes will be made with the most interesting colours, yellow (Reseda lutea or luteola), red (Rubia tinctoria), blue (Isatis tinctoria, woad), while a botanist will guide each member in the preparation of the other plants collected. of a precious herbarium, which will be integrated with educational sheets of tinctures that Terra Italica has created over the years of activity. Each participant will bring with them, in addition to the binder with the Herbarium, also the wool dyed during the course.

they are the most requested courses, also because they are held by a researcher who has become an institution in the soap making field, his continuous research in the field means that every time his explanations are enriched with new things. In Lamberto's courses, which last 2 days, you learn to produce solid and liquid soaps for the person and laundry, made both hot and cold, with the same recipes that he uses in his laboratory. You are taught how to produce them the oleolites, but above all, and this is the most important thing, we delve into the world of the use of natural soaps, the relationship that these have with the microbiota of the skin and how this relationship becomes increasingly closer in light of the scientific research that Lamberto also follows and leads personally in collaboration with the University of Chieti. In the courses there is always the botanical part, with the recognition and collection of plants for cosmetic use and the extraction of the active ingredient (oleoliths), with subsequent creation of the herbarium of the plants.

if you want to enhance the natural heritage of the area it is impossible not to make this plant known. The only places in the world where it lives are the L'Aquila basins; it is a plant, whose origin of the species is the Asian steppes. The coincidence that it grows in places where there are old settlements of the Italic peoples suggests that it was brought with them in the migrations from the east by the pre-Italic peoples, perhaps as if it were a sacred plant, given the particularity of the flowers. Every year we organize a walk in the locality of S. Eugenia in Navelli, to admire its beauty and raise awareness among people for the protection of this heritage, perhaps even accompanied by representatives of the Forestry Corps who are its true guardians.