by Michela Tartaglia

If you have ever wondered about the origin of the name P-Patch, you are not alone. The "P" stands for Picardo, the involuntary founder of the marvelous community garden project in Seattle area. When Ernesto Picardo, with his two brothers Orazio and Sabino started farming in South Park along the Duwamish River in 1922, he had no idea that he was about to create a movement that would spread across the city.

Ernesto, who soon became the patriarch of the family, left Italy in the 1890s to find a home in Seattle, leaving behind Salza Irpina, a little village in the southern Italian province of Avellino.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano