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Cinzia’s mini terrace


vate the area we’d cleared for the orto. Cinzia immediately set-to with her zappa to clear any remaining stones and half-buried antique house- hold junk in the area ear-marked for planting. Cinzia and Franco are kin- dred spirits about orto business and I’ve learned that it’s my job to not make decisions, do what I’m told to do and focus on cooking or sampling the produce. This leaves me free to concentrate on the important busi- ness of clearing paths through the trees and playing with power-tools. I love it. The orto-to-be lies on what might be termed the second terrace of our precipitous garden. The top terrace, which is where we imagine ourselves artfully arranged in comfortable chairs among exotic plants in giant pots, is still a builders yard on a heap of rubble and may well continue to be for some time to come; but the next terrace down has been cleared of trees


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