Tuesday, July 6 - therapeutic and educational horticulture

In the afternoon, after some relaxation in the local swimming pool, we headed to the conference held in the auditory of Vinseum on Educational and Terapeutic gardens. The specialists who were invited told us about the implementation of educational gardens in schools. Their goal is to reconnect the generation of children raised in the cities with the nature. It was proposed that some lessons, like Biology and Mathematics, could be held in these gardens. In addition to this, the projects unites different generations as they can work together in the gardens and share the experience.

The other part of the conference was to talk about terapeutic gardens, run for and by mentally handicaped people. We have seen pictures and the video of them working as a group were everybody does what he or she enjoys and is capable of doing. In such way they learn about the nature and observe the growing of the plants and therefore understand and achieve rewarding results. While watching the video we could sense the enthusiasm of the participants.