Artisan food making-traditional food making experiences connecting past with the present!
Artisan food is inseparable from village life. Village women are proud holders of this food making culture... Read more
“My Agrisummer” is an outdoor education platform.
"My Agrisummer” is an experiential learning opportunity for curious and creative children.
My Agrisummer connects children with their Armenian identity.
We live in the consumerist reality where we are taught from early childhood that we are happy when we consume. The world makes us feel incomplete and depressed due to the lack of this or that product in our life. It creates feeling of exhaustion and constant worries. How can we create that peace within ourselves and learn to be happy with what we have? While looking for the answers it was evident that most effective way is the constant contact with the natural world which helps to reduce stress, create more fulfilled life and abstain from consumerism. This experiences need to be nurtured from childhood and we created this program for children to give them the opportunity to get to know a different world which has its proven benefits for children’s development and well-being.
The camp's uniquely designed curriculum offers the following experiences and many more.
Artisan food is inseparable from village life. Village women are proud holders of this food making culture... Read more
Artisan food is inseparable from village life. Village women are proud holders of this food making culture and will share the secrets and traditions of artisan food making. Children will learn about Armenian artisan food that has a long history passing from generation to generation. “Learning to make food by hand from the scratch is putting your heart into it. We say that food made with heart tastes better, it also creates stronger bond within the family “: says one of the artisan masters.
We need to teach children to feel the nature, to understand and recognize natural phenomena, to learn about benefits of herbs.... Read more
We need to teach children to feel the nature, to understand and recognize natural phenomena, to learn about benefits of herbs. This helps to stimulates love and care towards nature, increases children preferences in using natural products. Above all these children will have the opportunity also to making their own tea with the herbs picked up by them.
What if you are given a chance to live someone else’s life, or what if you were born in a small village... Read more
What if you are given a chance to live someone else’s life, or what if you were born in a small village instead of a big city, how your life would look like. Here children will be given a chance to walk in the “shoes” of locals. This workshop enables participants to live one day the life of locals. It is a hands-on learning experience that pushes boundaries and makes space for understanding.
How succession of weather can impact on the lifestyle of people, how do they live in harmony with nature... Read more
How succession of weather can impact on the lifestyle of people, how do they live in harmony with nature, how to notice and take into account the changes in the Nature, how to predict a weather forecast without checking a weather app, just by readings the signs of the nature and not only.
Participating in the chain of food production: which includes from the grazing cows in the fields... Read more
Participating in the chain of food production: which includes from the grazing cows in the fields to the cheese on the table, from the seed planting into vegetables salad and from wheat seed to bread.
Children will learn and explore through hands on experiences about the following: how the queen bee rules her kingdom, ... Read more
Children will learn and explore through hands on experiences about the following: how the queen bee rules her kingdom, what kind of honey products do the bees produce, what are the benefits of bee products, what can we learn from bees?
