Valeria Margherita Mosca is the most important forager on the Italian scene, a cultural anthropologist specializing in ethnobotany and environmentalist. Graduated in Conservation of Anthropological Heritage, in 2010 she founded Wood*ing - wild food lab, the most important research laboratory on the use of wild food for human nutrition and forge of projects for the protection of biodiversity and cooperation with the environment.

Over the years she becomes a consultant to important entities related to high gastronomy, sustainability, protection and cooperation with the environment and a speaker at research institutions such as UC Davis - University of California, Politecnico di Milano, Università Statale di Milano, Basque Culinary Center, The World's 50 best, TedX, Legambiente, Ersaf and many others. In 2020, she was included in the prestigious list of the 50 most influential women in the world in the field of sustainable food, publicized by Corriere della Sera. She writes in numerous magazines on travel, exploration, ethnobotany, anthropology and sustainability and has published 5 books as an author for major Italian publishers (Mondadori, Giunti, Rizzoli).

Being a forager makes her an athlete, an explorer, a botanist, a connoisseur of natural environments and an advocate of biodiversity. Practicing foraging means promoting a path of reconnecting with nature, land appreciation and the relationship between humans and the environment. Valeria describes herself as “in reverence and service to the Biosphere” and dreams of a world where humans and nature live symbiotically, building a joint path in constant balance between environmental heritage, mutualistic relationship and progress.

Montura, an Italian company founded in 2000 and specializing in outdoor clothing, has chosen her as its Ambassador from July 2024.
So many points of contact with what are the values of the brand that has always supported many projects that protect, add value to the environment, to the mountains and not least to people.
A path that has led the company born on the slopes of the Dolomites to give every outdoor lover the best possible product through its alternative approach, always looking for something new to share.