the Veneto Region has decided to promote and develop the Project Teaching Farmhouses,

in line with the experiences of the school’s educational approach to” farm “- understood both as a physical place and as a container of meaning informational, cultural and symbolic – being tested Veneto on the initiative of institutions, associations or even simple business.

From some surveys show that 30% of Italian children have never seen a live sheep. For two children out of ten cows is only a colored drawing on paper of chocolate and 80% of children have never seen a garden with the most common plants: tomatoes, peppers, radishes, cabbage.

Ultimately, the kids of today have increasingly vague idea of the route that makes the food before coming to the table, and do not know that behind the food is not only the food industry, but also the earth and those who work.

Just starting from these considerations, the Regional Councillor for Agriculture of the Veneto Region has planned as early as 1999 initiatives for the school, with the aim to strengthen the bonds of our children – but also their families – with their roots and territory, by promoting knowledge of agricultural production, understood as essential for the conservation of land resources, and while encouraging greater communication between producers and consumers.

The “farm” is therefore intended to enhance the local identity, the local economy and local products, with the aim of creating a network of relationships between producers and young consumers, mediated world of school, to rediscover the cultural value and ecological agriculture and the rural world.

A working group, sponsored and coordinated by the Department of Agriculture and in which there are the agricultural and tourism professional associations – representing actors needed to build the network of farms – has already helped achieve some significant results, such as sharing the overall design and construction of two cycles of training courses – organized and managed by the regional training in agriculture – for farmers wishing to carry out educational activities on the farm.

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Source: Veneto Region