ClO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3,1984
Sweet corn & U-Pick-It surprise Italian vegetable grower
By Doris Crowley
NEWARK, Del. Twenty-five
year-old Marco Coltelli has been
growing vegetables all his life, but
until this summer when he visited
the U.S., he had never eaten sweet
corn or tasted yellow squash. And
until he came to Delaware, he had
never seen a pick-your-own farm.
Coltelli came to the States from
Italy last June under the auspices
of the International Four-H Youth
Exchange (IFYE) program. When
he returns to his family’s
vegetable farm near Bologna a few
days from now, he’ll have many
impressions to share-impressions
about American life styles, in
cluding the food we eat and the
way we grown and sell it.
The personable young Italian
began his four-month visit with a
brief orientation period in
Washington, D.C., and then
traveled to North Dakota where he
lived with 4-H families until early
August. Next he spent 10 days
touring California’s vegetable
industry. From there he came on
to Delaware for a two-month stay.
His hosts in this state were Henry
and Virginia Momeau of Newark,
larry and Pat Shaffer of
Wilmington, and Jim and Kay
Powell of Camden-all active 4-H
supporters with young people of
their own.
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While living with these families
Coltelli participated in local 4-H
activities, including meetings
where he showed slides of his farm
back in Bologna and talked about
Italy’s 3-P clubs, which were
founded in 1957 on the pattern of
American 4-H. The three Ps stand
for the Italian words; provare
(try), produre (produce), and
progredire (improve). Like 4-H,
the Italian clubs provide training
in leadership, professional and
other skills, as well as social ac
tivities in membership age (13 to
30, rather than 4-H’s 9 to 19) and in
being restricted to the sons and
daughters of farmers (4-H today
serves both urban and farm
youth).
With the help of his hosts, Coltelli
also saw a lot of Delaware
agriculture while he was here. I
met him toward the end of his stay,
and by then he had visited a
number of farms and farm-related
businesses.
One day last August, for
example, he accompanied New
Castle County extension agent
Dean Belt on a round of farm visits
in the Middletown area. Among
other places, they stopped to see
broccoli and cauliflower growing
at Baker Farms, potatoes at the
Frank Rutkowski farm, and
cabbage at Chris Wicks’. While he
was in New Castle County, Coltelli
also joined a group of plant
scientists from the University of
Delaware ag college on a trip to a
research farm in Pennsylvania.
After moving to the Powells in
Camden, Coltelli saw even more of
the local farm scene. Kay Powell
lined up and accompanied him on
tours of the Draper King Cole
vegetable processing plant near
Milton, two Delmarva broiler
operations, including a hatchery,
and a turkey processing plant.
Powell introduced Coltelli to
Kent County extension agent Bob
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