-Albergue Paradiso: Albergues Turísticos de Cantabria-

Huerta y Granja Escuela - Centro de Formación - Escuela de Tiempo Libre - Gimnasio

Albergue en Cantabria entre las playas de Suances y Santillana del Mar (cuevas de Altamira)

c/ La Ermita 18 39350 Hinojedo (Suances) Cantabria 

Telf: 942 84 31 39   fax: 942 82 33 96  

info@albergue-paradiso.com

Farm School

Arriba Youth Hostel Farm School School Trips Gymnasium Location

      

 

Objectives

 

Paradiso´s Farm School

 

Contents

 

a-  Recognize the origen of some foods and its forme in nature

b-  Iniciation to the recognition of vegetal and animal medium

c-  Identify which part of vegetables and other plant we consume (fruit, stem…)

d-  To distinguish the different parts of a plant and an animal 

e-  Know the different forms to obtain a plant: seeds and cuttings 

f-   To life the work of the garden and the farm

g-  Recognize different species of animals (birds, mammals, reptiles... farm animals, ornamental and domestic animal) and plants of the garden (vegetables, aromatic plants, fruit trees, cooking plants, etc.)

h-  Realize garden work (weed, seed, transplant, etc.) and farm work (touch, feed, clean... descovering all the responsability implied)

i-   To use the gardener and farmer´s tools

j-   Value the garden and the farm  importance at human and animal  feeding 

k-  State the self-suplyying feedinf in the rural world

 

a-       The garden, what is it?, for what is it for?

b-       The vegetables, what are they?, which part of each vegetable we consume?

c-       At the garden´s work, which tools shall we use?

d-       Cultivation asociation

e-       Cultivation rotation

f-        The seedsas semillas, parts of plants and their functions

g-       The insects and other "little animals" we can found in the garden (friends or enemies?)

h-       Compentes of soil.Mixes of soils

i-         Compostation and its use in the garden

j-         Ecological Agriculture and the extensive farming

k-       Relation between the garden´s activity with the food transformation workshops (marmalade elaboration for example)

 

 

Youth Hostel Paradiso presents its Farm School 

(environmental education centre).

 

“Today we´re living in an esencially urban and consumption society which produces the children have a big unknowledge of the origen of some foods they consume and its forms it state in nature. Visit the garden, the farm, the greenhouse, the fields, the pools, fruit trees areas, etc. allows this approach to the rural world. To do simple works at the garden, the farm and other zones of cultivation, helps them to understand the role and its importance for humans feed. Moreover, the children will enjoy with a series of participate and playful activities where they will be the ones who play the major role". 

 

 

 

 

 
     

 Activities 

a-      Farmer at the farm. 

b-   At the garden and its greenhouse several activities can be realized which vary depending on the time of the year or the specifical cares the vegetables required at the moment of the visit to the centre.

c-       Aromatics workshop: Soap workshop and natural oils, parfums, elaboration of smelly bags and sensorial games.

d-       Workshop of transformation and food elaboracion.  of aller de transformación y elaboración de alimentos. The conserves.

e-       The water cycle workshop.

f-       Renewable energies workshop.

Some of our animals:

Pig, Sheeps, Goats, Rabbits, Quails, Ducks, Chikens, Doves, Turkeys, Insects, Reptiles...

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