We document the project as it is built. Open to those who want to read — and those who want to replicate.
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…
Read →“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…
Read →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…
Read →What do the Andean Masters have to do with a Nun and the CànoVa project?
Read →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…
Read →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,…
Read →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;…
Read →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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