From being a salesman in jewelry to working in the fields, Alessio’s challenge: “At 25 I changed jobs and now I’m a farmer”

It all started with the first lockdown: «I saw Tommaso, my partner, cultivate the vegetable garden near his home. And I decided to give him a hand ». The alarm goes off at 4 but «it’s not a problem. It is so beautiful to see the products of the earth grow, from seed to sale “

UDINE. Other than card and opening and closing times. Those who work the land have no hours. Or at least it follows those of nature. Alessio Di Lenardo he is 25 years old, lives in Udine and since last September he hung up his jacket and tie to hold his hoe and boots. At the end of his contract as a Bortolin jewelry salesman, the boy decided to devote himself 110% to what had become his passion: the garden and the cultivation of fruit and vegetables.

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