Unique visits

Discover the excitement of unique visits to our Educational Farm, where children and young people can take part in hands-on workshops designed to bring them closer to nature and agricultural traditions.

These experiential paths, tailored to different age groups, offer a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the rural world and understand the importance of environmental sustainability.

Five Senses Workshop:

“I see, touch, listen, smell, taste” — Exploration of the rural natural environment through the five senses.

Objectives:

Encourage a deeper understanding of the natural environment
Promote respect for nature
Guide towards a better use of the five senses

Young Farmer Workshop:

“Hoe, spade, sow — the good farmer works in the field every day, bright and early!”
Educational vegetable garden: children and young participants hoe, plant, sow, learning agricultural principles and techniques.

Objectives:

Raise awareness of the importance of agriculture
Acquire knowledge of natural rural rhythms
Experiment with and learn eco-friendly production techniques and understand their impact on the health of the planet and its inhabitants

Green Workshop

What’s your name? Where do you come from?
Creation of a herbarium or a treasure hunt in the greenery.

Objectives:

Learn about meadow herbs and countryside plants
Understand the elements of the rural environment

Environmental Education Workshop

“Green tinged with blue”
Educational garden, waste sorting, composting, recycling of scrap materials and making toys with them, care of animals.

Objectives:

Learn eco-friendly techniques of cultivation and animal husbandry
Understand the commitment of modern agriculture to environmental protection

Laboratori manipolativi:

“l’ho fatto io!” Laboratorio del pane Laboratorio dei biscotti Laboratorio di cucina e gastronomia campana(gnocchi, pasta fresca, ecc.)

Other Workshops:

These can be arranged and tailored to fit the class curriculum.

Taste Workshop:

“Sweet, bitter, salty, or a bit spicy?” Children and young participants are guided to make a culinary product (bread, cookies, etc.) by first tasting and selecting, through games, the various needed ingredients, and then savoring the finished and baked product.

Objectives:

Reflect on, identify, and describe different taste nuances
Promote the development of manual skills
Educate about the traditional flavors of homemade foods, prepared by hand with completely natural ingredients
Explore concretely a procedural text

Aromatic Herbs Workshop

“Miss Sage”
An introduction to the properties of aromatic herbs and their use in cooking and herbal workshops through harvesting, selecting, and packaging small bundles, as well as labeling them.

Objectives:

Raise awareness of the importance of nature and its gifts
Learn about natural healing methods
Get to know aromatic and medicinal herbs

Food Education Workshop

“What, how, when, how much”
Psychomotor games, reading and creating labels, preparing food products — these are the meaningful activities offered to children and young people.

Objectives:

Learn about quality indicators of food products
Know how to choose healthy and genuine products
Understand the right quantity and quality of food to consume
Comprehend the rules of healthy eating

Traditional Workshops

“It was another era”

Soap and laundry workshop (Children/young people will watch the soap-making process, then wash and hang clothes as in the old days). Flavors of the past workshop (Preparation and tasting of old recipes from rural life). Traditional games and toys workshop (Making “Beeep” and rag dolls, wooden slingshots and catapults, and trying out games from the past). Old-time farm chores workshop (Preparing and carrying bundles of wood and hay, planting with ancient tools, shelling corn cobs, shelling broad beans and peas, carrying water as it was done before)

Objectives:

Rediscover and value rural traditions and culture.
Experience simpler ways of life, a bit harder but definitely more peaceful and healthier.
Understand the different lifestyle of ancestors and its impact on the environment as well as on individual. physical and mental well-being.
Learn to save, recycle, and create by using scrap materials, imagination, and inventiveness.