“Forget about being an influencer, happiness if being an animal herder and breeder,” 25-year-old Paola Moretti laughed.
Her flourishing farm boasts around 100 animals at Trivio, a tiny hamlet in the municipality of Monteleone di Spoleto, around 1000 metres above sea level.
Three years ago Moretti lost her job as a result of the pandemic and found herself having to brainstorm ideas to ensure her survival.
Sadly at that time, she also lost her grandfather, who had been a cattle breeder. Not long after, she decided to throw herself into what she knew – livestock and agriculture.
Moretti recently graduated from an agriculture course and it seems her love for nature has come full circle after a childhood surrounded by animals, fields and forests.
“Although I confess that at 15 I dreamed of working in the fashion world, I realised that what is really trendy is the nature that surrounds us,” she said.
“Amid my sheep, goats and cattle and amid these mountains I feel a little like Heidi,” the former clothing clerk said.
“Living up here, close to the Sibillini mountains is undoubtedly hard, but it is also a great privilege that I will never take away from the child I will soon give birth to.
“This is the place of my heart and when I say I feel a little Heidi I’m serious, it’s only here that I feel really good and I wouldn’t change it for any other place in the world.”
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