Peduzzi, at her farm called 'Fioco di Neve' (Snowflake) in Schignano, in Alpe Bedolo, Italy, is one of the many young Italians to choose a life of farming over the city. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
While her friends sleep off hangovers, 23-year-old Vanessa Peduzzi is doing a dawn check on her livestock. She is one of a growing number of Italian youths ditching the fast lane for a farmer's life.
"It's a tiring, demanding job, but I like it," she said as she walked through the wood-lined pastures high above Lake Como in northern Italy, showing off the building she is slowly restoring and transforming into a farmhouse.
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From the city to the countryside
Peduzzi, at her farm called 'Fioco di Neve' (Snowflake) in Schignano, in Alpe Bedolo, Italy, is one of the many young Italians to choose a life of farming over the city. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi tends to her cattle on her farm in Schignano, Italy. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi with her animals on her farm in Schignano, Italy. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi made a rather radical choice: to be a donkey and cow breeder on the mountain pastures above Lake Como, Italy. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
An aerial view of Peduzzi and some of the animals on her farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi (pictured with donkey) at her farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi (pictured with donkeys) at her farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
An aerial view of Peduzzi's farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi says that life on the farm is not easy, but it is the life that she has chosen for herself. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi (pictured with donkey) at her farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Some of the cows at Peduzzi's farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Peduzzi breeds cows and donkeys on her farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Some of the donkeys at Peduzzi's farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
An aerial view of Peduzzi and some of the animals on her farm. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
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