By Niranjan Narsingh Khatri | Executive Director
Together with our partner organization, Kakshyalaya, we recently conducted a two-day teacher training program focused on experiential science that included a field trip to an organic farm.
Overall, 17 teachers from nine different schools participated in the training workshops, in Kavre district. One goal was for teachers to create an ecological system on the grounds of their schools.
On the field trip to Everything Organic farm, in the village of Patalekhet, teachers received a guided tour and then spent time painting local trees and plants with watercolors.
The goal of the trip was to explore the relationship between the land and the food we eat. For a variety of reasons, that connection is not as strong as it once was. A growing number of younger men are giving up farming to migrate abroad for work. More and more local land is being used for commercial purposes. Organic farming practices have fallen out of favor, a victim of the faster, higher yields produced by chemical fertilizers.
The teachers had a question and answer session with subject experts at the farm, who evaluated the locations of different schools by altitude and soil quality and then suggested appropriate plants and vegetables. Nine schools picked almonds, apples and nectarine trees and took home seeds for lettuce, chamomile and tomatoes.
The second day of the training took place at Jana Jyoti Primary School at Budapokhari, in Panauti municipality. It started with a tour of some beehives that Kakshyalaya and Santi School provided earlier this year, upon the request of the local teachers and community members. Teachers then learned how to make raised flower beds to create the desired soil mixture.
Teachers also planted a nectarine tree, sowed the seeds and built a fence around the garden. They created labels for the fruit and seeds and helped students plant flowers around the beehives. Everyone got a taste of honey.
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