The school garden as a tool for environmental awareness for learning and food improvement in rural communities

Abstract

In this sense, the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua UNAN-Managua, in its Multidisciplinary Regional Faculty of Chontales (FAREM-Chontales), following the reasoning raised, has developed an initiative to support the Ministry of Education which has harmonized the objectives and methodology work for the implementation of School Gardens in two schools in San Miguelito community, Juigalpa, Chontales department, Nicaragua, benefiting 69 young people in multigrade per meeting in high school with ages ranging between 14 and 20 years and 20 day multigrade children with ages ranging from 5 to 13 years and 18 university students. From the university, three principals have been appropriated: the acquisition of knowledge, the creation of habits and the development of communication, especially in the rural context, which is a universe of knowledge and wisdom that can be used towards the protection of consciousness, the diversity of senses of the social collective, to the socio-productive conditions that can be added to the development of educational objectives at all levels, to influence the improvement of educational quality, productive diversity and diet, ensuring food and nutrition to the peasant family. As a training model, young women and community members were included in the kitchen, to show in a practical way the benefits of the different parts of the crops, the nutritional content, as well as a good taste: “The garden serves us for many things, learn new things, take advantage of the soil, learn to cultivate the patios to have a good diet that helps us develop healthy and healthy that helps us physically and mentally”. This educational experience shows that it is possible to adopt substantial changes in the thinking of the society of the urban sector and the rural countryside and to live in accordance with nature.