Ecological orchards for adults of the future
- Perform a continuous training activity of the CEPs that can reach all the centers they have from school gardens today, so that all interested teachers have access to such a training.
- Create a job from the ministry that could coordinate the activities related to the existing school ecological orchards and that teachers can permanently advise.
- Create a specific budget for the development of new ecological, school or improvement projects or improving existing ones.
This activity is coming Developing an environmental education project since 2018Called Planting, thanks to a subsidy from the Ministry for Ecological transition and the demographic challenge.
This project was mainly developed in the school environment, on the course, at all training levels, both public and coordinated. The offer to which we all refer Educational centers at the start of every school year are very varied: Workshops, conversations, guided outputs, telling stories, design, assembly and support in school ecological orchards. In the past year 2024 we carried out environmental education activities in around 55 centers in Cantabria in which around 4,000 students of all training levels participated.
A special part of this project is aimed at the development and support of school ecological orchards in those centers that demand this. In particular, in the year 2024, they have more than our team of school orchards contacted our team of school orchards than 30 Public and joint schools of all training levels And concrete activities were carried out in eighteen of those centers.
It has been detected that after the pandemic and, specifically, to Since the 2022-2023 course, the demand for the establishment of school ecological orchards has increasedAs well as support and advice. Since then, an average of 20 school orchards have been built a year, something that has never happened before.
The work team that designs, builds or expand the ecological orchards helps to plant fruit, etc. It consists of five retired people from the association who offer their work and their knowledge for free. In addition to the centers where he intervened in the meeting or improvement of his school gardens, there are dozens of centers that had previously or outside this intervention school gardens.
This is an association that does its educational work uninterested, usually by I work with voluntary people who recognize the boundaries they have to give an adequate response To the requirements that come from the centers.
Of the association that they connect to continue with this type of support activities for environmental education and specifically for the development of school ecological orchards. But they also discovered the need for this Ministry of Education and the Government of Cantabria to take a series of measures, as proposed above School garden in the broadest sense as an educational tool of maximum interest.