Plants travel around Europe

Convinced of the importance of natural and ecotourism, the CD “Plants travel around Europe” has been conceived as a particular landscape of our project, with its genuine flavors.  It contains a description of the local vegetation and traditional plants, some of them used in the kitchens of our countries.  Photographs illustrate the descriptions and bibliography enables a further investigation. 

Plants travel around Europe - sowing

We bought two small indoor greenhouses to germinate plants.

We planted all the seeds, we have received from Spain, Italy, France, Turkey and Germany, we wait for the seeds from Poland.

Abroad also we sow some seeds outdoor, creating a small pond.
We look for plants.

Plants from Poland

Some Polish seeds just before their way to Portugal :)

The Polish people are known as romantic souls that`s why some flowers will represent us in a Portuguese garden.

"Plants travel around Europe": edible wild plants

We are students of first-class- graphics course-  Istituto Orfini
Together with our teachers and prof. Ranfa, Perugia University, we are studying edible wild plants that grow in our area.  Each of us adopted one of this plants.

"Plants travel around Europe": seeds in the project languages

Students IIS Orfini

"Plants travel around Europe" (Italy)

Pictures Elisabeta
TwinSpace

"Plants travel around Europe"

Seeds & Plants (Natural Park "S'albufera d'Es Grau" - Menorca)

Dear teachers and students!

From Spain we (my students and me) are working since 3 weeks about the project of seeds. Last week we went to Albufera d’Es Grau Natural Park, one day with a class group and another day with the other class group. We have collected seeds from natural ecosystems in Menorca: sand dune ecosystems, pine forest, some bush ecosystems and wetlands. At the same time we are studying floristic composition and ecosystem structure. The students have taken pictures from each plant, with flowers and fruits. At the laboratory we are treating the seeds, we are extracting seeds from fruits and we are putting them in paper envelopes. At the computer class we are looking for the scientific name and the popular name in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, English, Polish, Italian, French and Turkish language.

I think everything will be ready in 2 weeks. At the beginning of December, we will send the seeds to Portugal. Bruno, is it ok to you? Or do you think it is too late? Working with students is so slow!! But they are learning a lot!!! I’m very glad!! They are working hard and hopefully. And they are waiting to go to Ferreira do Zezere to see the garden and to meet all of you!

Best wishes!

Paula

"Plants travel around Europe"

Lago Trasimero

Hello everyone

we would like to inform you all that our work about plants has already started. We are looking for typical plants in our area and we are going early to send seeds to Portugal. We have chosen some aromatic plants growing in our garden or in the mountains around Foligno.

They are called: maggiorana, timo, rosmarino, santoreggia, salvia and zafferano. All these plants grown wild or are cultivated in our region, Umbria, or near our town Foligno. Then we have chosen the products of the earth that are part of our gastronomic tradition; these products are cultivated in particular areas around our region, Umbria. They are called: Broccoletto del Trasimeno, Fagiolina del Trasimeno, Cicerchia, Cipolla di Cannara, Fagiolo di Cave, Farro, Lenticchia di Castelluccio, Patata rossa di Colfiorito. Trasimeno is a big lake near Perugia, the capital of our region. Cannara, Cave, Castellucio, Colfiorito are very small villages near Foligno.

Now we are collecting informations about these plants and we are preparing seeds......

IIS ORFINI ITALY

The Garden in Portugal

Hello friends

Finally the project activities are taking place in our school.
We are renovating our green house, with our students, to receive your seeds and then germinate them. It is a complicated process since the renewal of the green house (which was no longer used for many years) is costly and laborious, but with the efforts of school management and the work and motivation of our students, the green house must be ready at the end of this month.

So it is time to ask you to send us the seeds! 6 species, which may be of vegetable, ornamental plants, trees, since they are typical in your country. The plants you use to cook, plants that are in your gardens, trees from your woodland.

Should always send 6 to 10 seeds, since it is not always easy to germinate some species.
Along with the seeds I ask you to send me some basic information about the plant, so that our students and Menorca students, discretion and begin studying the plants for editing the book.

I will publish on the blog photos of the renovation works of the greenhouse, and the space where the garden will be installed.

Finally, time limits, I ask you to send me the seeds by the end of December, to the address of the school, who want to choose to send live plants, you can do it in general meeting in May.

Best regards

Bruno Paixão

"Plants travel around Europe"

Thank you Manuela!