The "Zielone Niwy" farm is located in a forest landscape park on the Upper Liswarta River, surrounded by pine forests. You can relax close to nature, watch wild birds and beavers, ride a horse, take part in workshops and educational activities. Animals: huculs - Lokata and Passja, haflinger Pinezka, Rabbit and his relatives and friends, as well as husky dogs - Dora and Carbon help in the implementation of the classes.
Educational programs implemented on the farm:
1. Garden on a plate - classes regarding products obtained on the farm, their properties and role in nutrition.
- Use of agricultural products, waste management, composter.
- Seasonal product versus products available in supermarkets.
- Vegetables and fruit straight from the garden - taste, health, availability compared to
"long-term" products.
- Seasonal products in home cooking, preserves, regional cuisine, preparation of healthy dishes from seasonal products.
- Reading labels.
- Pickling, pickling (e.g. cabbage in a barrel), joint grilling at the request of the group,
baking potatoes etc.
Duration of classes: 2.5-3 hours
Target group: children, young people, adults;
Group size: min. 10 max. 25 people
2. Hipo-hop - The role of animals in human life and the environment, with particular emphasis on horses. Interactions between humans, animals and plants.
- basic information on horse nutrition and care as well as feeding and cleaning the horse (possibility of personal participation);
- the importance of movement for human health and physical activity,
- therapeutic effect of horse riding on the rehabilitation of psychomotor disorders,
- the world seen through the eyes of a horse, horse recreation and hippotherapy.
Duration of classes: 2.5-3 hours
Target group: children, young people, adults;
Group size: min. 5 max. 15 people
Additional program: What squeaks in the grass, what does the forest say?
- educational walk in the surrounding meadows, fields and forests;
- meadow and forest as an ecosystem; fauna and flora of meadows, fields and forests;
- dependencies in nature - food chain;
- recognition of basic species of trees and field flowers and their use in households and in natural medicine and cosmetics.