Journal of Colgrande

Notes from the hill

We document the project as it is built. Open to those who want to read — and those who want to replicate.

30 Aug 2026

What does Freire have to do with CàNoVa, Reciprocity, the Digital World, and the Constitution?

After Ferragosto I left for a week in Contile di Varsi, for National Freire Week: a charming mountain spot, more than twenty people, a week co-managed together, phone…

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31 Jul 2026

Six Months of Colgrande

“Few humans in life have the privilege of tracing their new path home.” Six months ago, Colgrande was a court auction win, a piece of paper. Many hectares…

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30 Jun 2026

The Way and the Basket

I set out with one clear intention: to receive. I had been sleeping badly. Too many activities, too many plans, too much mind. CàNoVa was at risk of…

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16 Jun 2026

Three Days with Q’eros Masters in Tuscia

What do the Andean Masters have to do with a Nun and the CànoVa project?

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01 Jun 2026

First anniversary of the request

A year has passed since the morning when — along the Francigena — an oak told us about the future. And now Colgrande is already beginning to reveal…

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01 May 2026

The letter is open

The open letter is CàNoVa’s Manifesto. We already report the very first responses of the walkers of life: “…nonviolent is that one distinct word that, in my experience,…

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15 Apr 2026

The Small Village

Visiting the small village is not easy — hours and hours clearing brambles and saplings, more than ten years of abandonment. The farmhouse has sections of fallen roof;…

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21 Mar 2026

Spring equinox

At the end of March I read the cardinal points of Colgrande. At the spring equinox sunset — when the sun sets exactly due West — the farmhouse…

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