November 15, 2013

On Friday November 15, 2013 the EcoHuertos program held an Induction Workshop at the Tamboril Secondary School in Santiago.

A total of 33 participants attended the workshop, including students, teachers, school personnel as well as parents.

Participants analyzed and posed questions such as: What is a vegetable garden?  Why do we want one? What do we have and what do we need to create one? How should we organize ourselves to create a sustainable vegetable garden? Answers to each of these questions were important for developing the concept of a garden and to establish individual and group commitments.  We presented ideas about the different types of vegetable gardens as well as what types of plants we can grow and how to care for them, among other things.

Dynamics of reflection:  “Why a vegetable in this school? The responses: “We want a vegetable garden to leave behind for future generations of students, to learn about the types of farming and cultivation our grandparents did and to provide healthy food for our daily consumption. Also, these gardens put us in touch with nature in a healthy way.”
As is the custom in our Induction Workshop, in addition to donating two copies of “How to Create a Vegetable Garden” to the school library, we explained the manual’s content and utility as reference material to support garden creation.

Finally, the group visited the site chosen for the garden, to look over the space, review steps involved in planting and setting group expectations for the creation workshop.