Continue the activity in the schools and the prison for the project ” Citizens Guardians of the Peasant Culture
With the beginning of the school year are filming activities are also targeted at schools of elba for the project ” Citizens Guardians of the Peasant Culture of Elba, approved by the D. D. R. 13511/23 with the contribution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, and the Region of Tuscany, which is the leader of the Foundation Island ofElbe, and attended by numerous Associations and ETS, companies in the agricultural sector, and experts.
Nursery school Home of the Duke of Portoferraio, with the collaboration of the Garden of Simple
You have been completed the seven flower beds in wood, carried out at the Nursery School Home of the Duke of Portoferrraio with the collaboration of dr. Francesco Marino, curator of the Garden of the Simple and Director of Benessererboristico.
The classes have been filling them with earth, and will welcome the native plants donated by the Police Forest of Portoferraio, on the 21st of November, on the occasion of the Feast of the Trees, in the presence of the body of teachers, students and authorities.
Enabled the collaboration with the Elementary School “Teseo Tesei”
You have activated the collaboration with the Elementary School “Teseo Tesei” of Marina di Campo, where you have defined the actions to put in the calendar and that will be added to the school program. The goals are to create a dialogue and an intergenerational dialogue, to educate, to care for the environment, transmit, and retrieve the memory of the peasant enhancing the value of agricultural activities.
Number of meetings were organized with some of the elders, witnesses of the rural area, available to be interviewed by the students, telling the story of the life of the country in the years ’50 and ’60, remembering the parties, the games, their experiences at school when they were children. Also, once a week classes meet Antonella Hills, coach, and director of the School of Dance Tap dance One, that will bring them closer to the customs and to the dances of the rural tradition. Even at the Elementary School of the Marina di Campo, on 19 November, to celebrate the Festival of Trees will be planted a few fruit trees native elba supplied from the Garden of the Simple with the participation of the teaching staff and the vice president of the Istituto Comprensivo “G. Giusti” Beatrice The Green and the pupils.
“The citizens of the Guardians” all’within the Prison of Porto Azzurro
In the next few days, finally, the interior of the House of detention “Pasquale De Santis,” the Porto Azzurro, in close collaboration with the partner in Dialogue, the sb, from the Direction of the prison, the educators and agents, will be launched the project “Green ” within the walls” in the framework of the project “Citizens of the Guardians”. In the area of imprisonment will be retrieved flower beds and spaces suitable for the realization of gardens, which will host the cultivation of wheat biancolino, lavender, spontaneous, and other plants characteristic of the Island as well as aromatic herbs. The goal is to recover the abandoned areas offering inmates the opportunity to carry out activities in the open air and to get closer to the trades in agricultural products.
For more information: fondazioneisladelba@gmail.com
