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Our paper aims at illustrating specific ways of mapping surrounding landscape using the Parish Maps. Named after the parish, the smallest unit in a community-based area, they appear as a subjective means to render the outer space. In fact, since they were first experimented by the English Association "Common Ground", they have been used with the specific purpose of revealing the dwellers' point of view on the area they live in: the underlying idea, in fact, is that our landscape is made of different and unique points of view conveyed by those who concur to its making. On the basis of our research experiences over a span of almost 20 years of work using the Parish Maps within the framework of local communities, we believe that these maps can prove to be a useful tool in education contexts too, RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne, V. 10 N. 19 (2023)

Il mio contributo prende in considerazione i tentativi, messi in atto da alcuni apicoltori, di “rinselvatichire” e “ripopolare” un paesaggio compromesso dall'uso estensivo di pesticidi e monocolture, attraverso la semina e la piantumazione di specie spontanee per garantire nutrimento alle loro api. Il caso di studio si inserisce in un ambito di analisi più ampio, sostenuto dalla prospettiva teorica della svolta ontologica e multispecie, che mette in risalto come specie diverse riescano a entrare in relazione tentando non solo di sopravvivere, ma anche di vivere “con”. Fulcro e punti nodali di riferimento di questi intrecci relazionali sono le specie vegetali (in particolare le piante che marcano i confini) ma anche gli esseri umani e le api. My essay deals with the attempts acted by beekeepers, who engage in a process of introduction of spontaneous herbs and plants in order to feed their bees, of “rewildening” and “repopulating” landscapes suffering from monocropping and excessive use of pesticides. My case study relies on the ontological and multispecies approach which addresses the issue of different species' coexistence, striving not only to survive but also to live “with”, in a bundle of relations. The essay explores in particular the multispecies issue taking into account border plants and their relations with humans and bees.