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THE EDUCATIONAL FARMS

OF THE COOPERATIVE SLOWLY

AND OF THE GARDEN OF CASA BETANIA

 

The "Slowly" cooperative, the "Solidarity" cooperative and the "Gramigna" association offer workshops

didactic for schools and groups, in order to spread peasant traditions, agricultural innovations, knowledge of

territory and civic awareness. 

The educational offer consists of:

• laboratories at school, which offer the double advantage of containing costs and none

organizational commitment on the part of the school;

• workshops on farms, which bring children closer to nature, through paths studied within the

“Casaldianni Experimental Farm” (Circello) or at the “Orto di Casa Betania“ (Benevento);

• workshops for events in the square, which offer playful-educational moments on the theme of nature and traditions,

through practical work, within a collective experience.

 

 

THE TEACHING METHODOLOGY

The methodology adopted in all laboratories is that of learning from experience

(Learning by doing) through "non-formal" teaching processes. This is the tool

practice which we use to achieve the training objectives we have set for ourselves.

Learning is not only related to experience, but also to what we do with it

certain experience. It needs to be translated into a learning experience as well

its value dosed in different ways. The cycle shifts from acting to reflecting on what happened,

to the  generalizing and conceptualizing the experience and applying the new knowledge to act

another time.

 

 

THE LOCATIONS OF THE WORKSHOPS

Casaldianni Farm (C.da Casaldianni, Circello): the Casaldianni farm, first fief and then simple property of the Di Somma family until 1951, is now owned by the Rummo Hospital and is managed by the Province of Benevento.

The company has an extension of 310 hectares and is located in a naturalistically valuable area that includes woods, pastures, olive groves and rural buildings.

 

Orto di Casa Betania (Via Marco da Benevento, crossroads of via Meomartini, Benevento): agricultural space managed by the cooperative “La Solidarity”, located in the urban context and dedicated to social agriculture projects for the benefit of disadvantaged people. The space includes a greenhouse, open-field vegetable gardens, play areas and a bar with a multipurpose room.  

 

It is possible to organize the same workshops at the school premises. It is also possible to develop annual workshops that allow a more formative didactic experience.

 

 

 

OUR WORKSHOPS

click on the name of the laboratory to open it

 

 

ORTOC'ENTRO

the didactic laboratory on the vegetable garden

 

  THE WEALTH OF NATURE

the laboratory on wild herbs

 

  THE FABRICS AND COLORS OF NATURE

the textile and dyeing laboratory  

 

LET'S RECYCLE

the recycling and reuse laboratory

 

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