Showing posts with label traditional skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional skills. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Building the pergola: what strength! What skill!

Around the Amalfi Coast there are millions of lemon trees and olive trees, so many pergolas are built, mainly  to protect them from the weather.


Just recently terrific storms with hail stones the size of a small egg ruined entire crops.
The pergolas are built high, with netting rolled up on top. Eugenio showed us how his skilled father made the joins strong and safe. Meticulous work with the wire.






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