. What is a didactic
farm?
It is a school in the
open air, which promotes
the education to the
rural world, where
students and their
teachers can be in touch
with nature and know the
rural world, product’s
life cycle and the
features of the
territory.
. Aims:
• To increase the value
of the relationship
between city and country
• To drum up for the
discovery of the
environment and rural
activity
To recover the
environmental and
cultural value of the
territory
• To sensitize to
environmental respect
and to the rhythm of
nature
• To know the origin of
food and the passages
from the ground to the
table
• To provide information
about product’s life
cycle ( bread, pizza,
pasta, wine, oil etc..)
. ITINERARY
Our farm gives the
opportunity to organize
school trips during the
year, with different
itineraries during the
day:
.
1) From grape to
wine with
didactic
workshop (September);
. Didactic aims:
At the end of the
didactic itinerary,
students will know the
following subjects:
• Historical backgrounds
and curiosità about wine
• What is the grapevine
• How and when it is
possible to harvest
• The passage from grape
to wine
. Forseen activities
Guided tour and harvest.
Students will be able to
distinguish: plant of
grapevine, the parts of
bunch of grapes, the
stages of harvest.
Harvest, to press grapes,
prepare the grape juice,
fermentation of the
grape juice and
transformation into
wine, settling and
stabilization of wine
and its storage and
maturation.
.
2) From olive
sto oil with
didactic
workshop (
November and
December)
. Didactic
aims:
At the end
of the
didactic
itinerary,
students
will know
the
following
subjects:
• Historical
backgrounds
and
curiosity
about oil
• What is
the olive
tree
• How and
when it is
possible to
pick up
olives
• The
passage from
olive to oil
. Forseen
activities
Guided tour
and picking
of olives.
Students
will be able
to
distinguish:
how to pick
up olives,
the
different
branches of
olives trees.
To bring
olives to
oil-mill.
What is an
oil- mill
and how it
works.
Possible
guided tour
to an
oil-mill.
Pickink of
olives and
transport to
oil-mill.
Washing and
crashing
olives,
olive oil
extraction
and storage
.
3) From corn to
bread with
didactic
workshop (every
month)
. Didactic
aims:
At the end
of the
didactic
itinerary,
students
will know
the
following
subjects:
• Historical
backgrounds
and
curiosity
about corn
• What is
the corn
• How and
when it is
possible to
seed corn
• The
passage from
corn to
bread
. Forseen
activities
Guided tour.
Students
will be able
to
distinguish:
how seed
corn, when
it is ripen
and how to
harvest it.
Knead flour
to obtain
bread,
pizza, pasta
and biscuits
and to eat
them
.
4) Nature trail
in our firm (
every month)
• Guided
tour in our
firm
• Guided
tour of our
farm ( to
hoe, to
plant, to
irrigate)
.
5)
Transformation
cycle (every
month)
• From
fruits to
product (
jam, fruit
juice etc..)
.
COSTS
. Guided
tour of our
farm with
workshop:
10 €
. Guided
tour of our
farm with
workshop and
lunch:
20 €
. Optional
visit:
• Saltwarks
and Wetland
in
Margherita
di Savoia
• Ipogei in
Trinitapoli.
Recomended
reservation
at the
beginning of
scholar year
both for
guided tour
in our farm
and for
Saltwarks
and for
Ipogei.
.
Clothes and
tools
Sportive
clothes and
comfortable
shoes for
activities
in the open
air are
required.
Replacement
of shoes,
hat, flask
and snack if
lunch isn’t
reserved in
our firm are
necessary.
