Noted to be Furthered
In between times of writing my second fieldreport, making new contacts and finishing up a PhD-course in Feminist Environmental Humanities, I have managed to also conduct some actual fieldwork this week. The specific explorations featured in this post took place in the near vicinity of Parco Naturale Regionale Bosco e Paludi di Rauccio located northeast of Lecce here in Puglia yesterday. I have many times before visited this area, which is one severely affected by the desiccation of the olive plants caused by the plant bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in the region, and I always find it equally intriguing, if yet with a much burneded sentiment, to delve into the orchards here to take further note of what whatever happens. During the explorations of yesterday, I found myself entrenched in sounds of chirping birds and excavators to the smells of flowers and spring and to the view of irrigation systems no longer in use and canopies either completely cut down to the bare trunk or bare in their branchings; I noted a field of pruned and starkly brownish trunks — must they have been treated with something, but with what? — that had been grafted in curious ways from the roots additionally to those on the branched stumps; I pondered upon the differences in soil materials noted walking over acres of tightly reconfigured re-plantations of olive plants and upon everything about sign ‘zona avvelenata‘ featured in the orchard from across the re-planted fields. My notebook scribbled, my drone flown, my recorder soundscaped, and my camera focused, the explorations quest for further investigations so understand and make sensible comments on the correlations of their becomings. Such will in due time happen, but now I must finish writing my fieldreport so that I once again can focus 110% of my attention to what which I love the most, namely to engage fieldworking explorations.
