At first, we got actively involved in planting and growing after seasonal plants in our school gardens.
This is from the Turkish team's garden:
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The Spanish team's garden included not only edible plants and herbs but also seeds and seed bombs that they prepared to share with us at the meeting:
The Greek team had a lot of work to do to revive the old school garden but they succeeded in growing delicious organic lettuces and lots of herbs.
Slide Presentations
Beyond getting green handed, we tried to explore the wealth of agricultural goods in our regions and share it with our partners. Therefore, each school team created a presentation for the meeting focusing on those goods that provide special nutritional and health benefits and are used in cosmetics.
Specifically, the German team’s presentation included the most typical northern European herbs with their nutritional value and health benefits. You can view this presentation here:
Kräuter.pdf
accompanied by the traditional recipe for the delicious Frankfurter Green Sauce with regional herbs:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19PWY53jXD6w3c9C2u4wEC_h8yOzex63y
The Spanish team’s presentation consisted of Meditteranean edible plants, seeds, herbs, spices and fruit:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TiBZhTOypXuDXmkfs_mRMG8Q3SUFgVdi…
They also brought along seed bombs for each of us, tea bags and seed bags which are a traditional painkiller!
The Italian team did not only create a digital presentation with slides presenting the wealth of mediterranean herbs and plants
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ye3hvLH1cL8YoQ0NU8EdP1X7BbgyWOmSMmR0PqBXLuU
but also a hand-painted album of plants which helped us all appreciate their artistic skills!
The Czech presentation touched upon economic and political issues pertaining to the choices made by state agriculture
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LcnkJ0qNlp8OUAeSaM4pBRWQBw-2Fmyg
The Turkish team presented us the most typical medicinal herbs
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1atpNstLQky0If3Fjn7cN9wvEW3ZiKPsi
from their region.
The Greek presentations started with a video documentation of the Erasmus+ team's visit to the European Bread Museum whose exhibits and programme of activities is closely related to Traditional Sustainable Agriculture and Farming:
Then, the Greek team went on to briefly show the most typical regional plants, herbs and fruit explaining their benefits:
Greek herbs and plants with cultural significance.pptx
Last, they laid specific emphasis on the regional supercrops: cotton and silk
Silk and cotton production in Greece.pptx
as well as on the cultural significance of mastiha for the island of Chios
The Greek mastic.pptx
Ultimately, this activity aimed at appreciating the entrepreneurial potential of Agriculture. To achieve this, we discussed the extent to which young people consider a carreer in agriculture in each of our countries and regretted the fact that so little is done to encourage them to resort to organic farming both as a career choice and as a step towards sustainability.
After the meeting, the students who participated in this activity compared their presentations and jointly created a presentation of our common agricultural wealth.
Traditional Agriculture across our countries.pptx
which we associated with nutritional and herbal medicine and other traditional natural remedies.