On the Teramo side of Gran Sasso, among the vegetable gardens and trees surrounding his home in Molino Vecchio, Fausto Iezzi moves with the ease of a demiurge, intent on shaping a vast vegetal family.<\/b> He knows each of his plants individually, pruning them, joining them and mending them together. He stops in front of a plum tree. He points to the place where he cut the \u201cmother\u201d \u2014 the original plant \u2014 and grafted a cacchio<\/i> onto it, a shoot taken from another variety, giving new life to its fruits: a knowledgeable way of caring for, and giving form to, the countryside that surrounds him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"