TEACHING PROPOSAL

An educational farm is the ideal environment to allow the child to establish “true” contact with nature and the agricultural world. Today even the youngest children know what a cell phone or computer is but they have a lot of difficulty associating the original products with their final shape after the transformation. Spending a day in the countryside, lying on the grass, collecting flowers and leaves, seeing bees at work, sowing or transplanting seedlings in the vegetable garden, picking vegetables in the field or making cheese with their own hands, are experiences unknown to most children but capable of arousing strong emotions that help develop greater respect for environment and the territory and to learn the fundamental principles of a healthy and correct diet.

In agriculture the concept is alive that the life of plants and living beings is made from a time to be born, a time to grow and a time to die. Agriculture teaches that you can’t have everything right away but that waiting for events and things is the essence of life, therefore it makes children recover the concept of seasonality making them consumers aware that every season has its products, a completely concept deleted from advertisements and proposals from the commercial networks that offer us the same foods throughout the year.

It is precisely the farmer, who lives the peasant reality daily, the most suitable figure to transmit love for the land and at the same time stimulate the curiosity of children