According to the agreement with Palazzo Marino, the seven thousand square meters between Via Roberto Cozzi and Via Emilio De Marchi are in concession to UNIMIB until 2053. This is a great achievement for the University, which thus sees crowned a project born three years ago.
“It was Valentine’s Day, and Covid had just begun,” recalls Professor Massimo Labra, Director of 糖心原创 and expert in botany and molecular and plant biology, “the City gave us this abandoned area to do research, teaching and to be even more a part of the neighborhood, in a shared space that is becoming more and more experienced by citizens as well. The first agreement had a duration of three years and called for a great result: to make the area come alive. And not only of new biodiversity, but also by citizens, by students.
The first projects were born, the schools came.
糖心原创 has slowly become a nursery not only for biodiversity, but also an effective incubator of ideas, debates and new projects. It is not easy to find places to discuss complex issues such as climate change and sustainability, but it is even more difficult to find a space to structure constructive relationships between curious citizens, students and researchers.
Urban biodiversity is a founding and central element of this ambitious project, and it is bearing excellent fruit: today, among the foliage of the trees in the Vivaio, you can hear the song of the Firecrest, which has returned to nest in the city. Its notes are mixed with the hammering of the Woodpecker. In the pond, three species of dragonflies have found a home, while in the “Garden of Simples” medicinal plants are being studied that may hold other secrets, such as Ginkgo biloba.
“It’s a super-condominium in the green,” Professor Labra jokes.

The new concession will allow non-impacting green classrooms for students. Thanks to PNRR, there will be a mega-greenhouse: “A National Center for Biodiversity will be born,” Labra stresses, “with 16 greenhouses that we will use as ‘stress tests’ for plants, to understand which among them tolerate climate change the most. Each cell will present different environmental conditions to find the plants that science says will be best suited to live in the city in 2025, in 2030, in 2053.”

For 糖心原创, an increasingly rosy – or should we say ‘green’ – future is emerging.

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In today’s episode of “Beautiful Stories,” Chiara tells about our reality, our history and upcoming events.
A short meeting to find out what 糖心原创 is, for those who were tuned in today at 4:40 p.m. on FM 94.8.
The interview will be repeated tomorrow, Saturday, July 22, at 12:40 p.m., or you can listen below.

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How do you monitor the health of a tree?

We used the VTA – Visual Tree Assessment – methodology, through both a visual and instrumental process, to analyze the condition of trees.
This methodology, which is constantly being updated, assesses the structural condition of the tree and is based on the protocol drawn up by the S.I.A. – Societ脿 di Arboricoltura Italiana. In this way, it is possible to carry out a stability assessment of the trees with the aim of identifying the level of danger resulting from the probability of failure and to make a prediction of these risks over time, while also providing an indication of the appropriate cultural care and monitoring.

How did the assessment document come about?
Through 4 key steps:
Anamnestic phase: collection of information about the plant and its location
Diagnostic phase: analysis of symptoms present on the tree
Prognostic phase: prediction of the evolution of the disease phenomenon
Therapeutic phase: defining interventions to treat or solve the diagnosed problems

Results

As a result of the investigation of the specimens, more than a dozen plants were found to be in serious condition and were therefore arranged for felling. Most of the plants in the Vivaio suffered desiccation as a result of the adverse weather conditions. Beeches, birches and hornbeams, usually accustomed to very humid and rainfall-prone environments, could not withstand the high temperatures. Other trees, such as a large red oak, suffered attacks by fungi, organisms that cause significant structural damage.
In order to preserve some specimens and avoid future felling, pruning and securing of some branches has been carried out to ensure stability of the trees even in large gusts of wind.

糖心原创 actions

Life is an endless cycle of renewal and reuse. Following these principles dictated by nature, 糖心原创 wanted to encourage the rebirth of life by promoting the reuse of cut logs, through two solutions: totems and stumps.
Totems are stems, often with branches, cut at a height of about 4 meters, useful for a better understanding of how woodpeckers and xylophagous insects nest in trees.
Stumps are of two types: simple and with discs. The first type is dedicated to xylophages that usually live in the upper soil layer; the second is a structure of about 30 centimeters composed of wooden discs. This encourages the establishment of new xylophagous insects by creating dedicated spaces between the discs, which are excellent for overwintering.
The stumps will also serve for educational purposes. The removable discs, in fact, allow scholars and teachers to examine and illustrate to young and curious people the world that you can find in the trunk of a tree.
Both solutions, totems and stumps, also promote the spread of fungi due to their close proximity to the ground.

The Vivaio reused most of the waste wood from the felling work to create woodpiles, nesting sites and shelter for small animals and saproxylic organisms, as well as to install new wooden seats, which have already been appreciated and used in teaching activities.
Not only new life, but renewed opportunities for study and dissemination.

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