Paolo Ciarimboli shares with Kakoli Mitra his reflections on being an organic farmer and food educator in the Marche region of Italy. When he began farming on his own land in 1988, conventional, chemical-based farming was being widely practiced in Marche and across Italy. While food production in Italy — being a part of the European Union, which for over 20 years has had some of the most stringent Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) regulations in the world — does not utilize GMOs, much of Italy’s food production is industrial, using resource-intensive inputs, such as toxic pesticides and herbicides and fossil fuel-based fertilizers. As in many other countries, produce is transported over long distances from farms to consumers, necessitating the use of resource-intensive transportation and refrigeration and storage facilities. Thus, much of the produce consumed is not only stale and nutrition-deficient but also laden with chemicals. Paolo describes the social environment in the late 1980s when he decided to introduce organic farming to his native region of Marche. After initial resistance to organic food entering the consumer market, many in the local community gradually began buying organic produce and seeing the importance of moving away from extractivist, industrial food production to one that is local and organic. In addition to growing a large variety of produce, Paolo’s farm serves as an educational space for people of all ages, from near and far, to learn about food, farming, and regenerative ways of living.