Portal de Murcia

www.portaldemurcia.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

We are in the final 2013-2014 school decurso and we already started the collection of seasonal vegetables.

The 21 schools that make up the network of organic school gardens in the municipality of Murcia (RHEMU) are already collecting his first zucchini, cucumbers and tomatoes, and is that school of these schools and know they are cultivating "seasonal vegetables."

This is one of the many skills that gives an orchard, a space in which the vegetables are not only care, but a classroom more, in this case outdoors, where part of the plant do you eat is learned, what is a climbing plant, why did he put the tomato stem and a long etc..

And the school garden has burst in schools as a unique opportunity for students to apply the knowledge acquired in the classroom: language, language, mathematics, physical education, knowledge of the environment, etc..

The Department of Environment, directed Adela Martinez-Cache, launched six years ago, a school garden program for which it has been more than thirty centers, where there have been numerous environmental education activities, workshops, plantations, audiovisual tool loan, grants, etc..

2013-2014 In this course, the city of Murcia has wanted to take a step further and has given a boost to the already established school garden program to implement Network organic school gardens the municipality of Murcia, giving it more tools and services for schools: consultancy service support to the planning and implementation of gardens, an annual prize of materials for the school garden tool lending service, literature and documentation of school gardens and organic farming activities environmental education, conducting teaching units for school gardens, talks of entities and / or experts involved in organic farming, health, food, etc.., dissemination of school gardens on websites and social networks, a distinctive image RHEMU organization of training sessions to exchange experiences, etc..

On February 25, 2014, an act where schools signed the Memorandum of Association of the Network, which currently has 21 schools, where about 4,500 students from Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary participate was organized.

The CEIP St. Pius X, http://ceipsanpiox.blogspot.com.es/, who has visited this morning the Councillor for the Environment, launched the school garden this year for the first time.

It is the only center that is located RHEMU his garden on a plot of orchards Entertainment, which also manages the Land Department of the Environment.

This center benefits plus all possibilities that a school garden, share experiences and collaborations with neighborhood residents that include a plot of Leisure Gardens.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia