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At home on a farm holiday
Trentino-Alto Adige
Magazine: June 2008
yourself on a summer evening lulled by the sounds of nature, a rustic wooden table with the most delicious food on earth, a gentle stroll through stretches of green fields. Open your eyes and you are in Trentino. This lovely region can count up to 300 farm, offering genuine country life and the typical warm hospitality of Trentino tradition. There is a wide range of choice which spans from room or apartment rental to refreshments, agricultural-camping sites and educational farms with the chance of participating in sporting, cultural and didactic activities. All this is to rediscover the ancient world of the countryside, its products and its people. Farmstead holidays are in fact “family based”, and it is the hospitality and the warm welcome of the family nucleus which are the passwords for the owners of the locations. The Trentino holiday farm accomodation are often situated in buildings which have left the charm of the agricultural traditions unchanged, with particular attention to the environment and energy saving procedures.
Down-to-eartheducation
For betterinsight into the rurallife there are thirtyor more educationalfarms scatteredover the stunningTrentino territory.These activities servethe double purposeof bringing childreninto direct contactwith nature,with the farm animals,the soil, cultivatedand wild plantsand at the same timethey allow the farmersto communicate theirlove for the earthand its fruits.A hands-on wayof gettingto know the daily farmroutine, which hasalways protected.The territory followingthe motto “If I listenI forget, if I seeI remember, if I doI learn”. As well as thedidactic courses, withqualified personneland specially equippedareas to involvewhoever desiresto discover the farmand its productionprocesses,educational farmsare an opportunityto get to love theanimals, vegetation,open spaces, agriculturaltrades and the worldof rural traditionswhich is full of ‘feelgood’ emotions.Info: fattoriedidattichetrentine.it
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