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This book emerges as a resource to give the Green Road tourist route of a tool to improve understanding of what is learned during the journey that is performed to see first hand agriculture Torre Pacheco.
The Green Road tourist route "From Seed to Plate" along the route of the Windmills, the route of Cabezo Gordo and Urban Route up the tourism of the municipality.
This is the third book published by the Educational Department of Tourism, the first was released in 2006 on the Windmills, two years later he published the book Teaching about fat head.
This book is particularly suitable for school, thanks to its numerous illustrations and simple activities that will delight children.
Furthermore, the content is very comprehensive and varied and it is also interesting for the adult audience that is also interested in agriculture in our municipality.
In this book, tourists can learn basic knowledge about plants and their functions, as well as the economic value of the vegetables through agriculture in Torre Pacheco.
From its origins until today when the farmers have adapted to new technologies making the agriculture of this county one of the most advanced and most productive in the region.
Through this book one can see the cycle that follows the vegetables in their growth starting the tour in the nursery, greenhouses and plantations to end in agricultural cooperatives.
The book devotes a page to CIFE, Center for Integrated Agricultural Training and Experience as the Green Route in your itinerary includes a visit to this center, located in Torre Pacheco.
Other content is a vocabulary, a questionnaire in order for the Parkway.
Also devotes a page to the importance of water in agriculture in the Region of Murcia.
In the final pages of the book to go over what has been learned there are a number of activities and experiments to do with plants that will arouse the interest of the curious.
As a curious note that the history of agriculture in Torre Pacheco is linked to IFEPA, when in 1969 establishing the Week of Agriculture and Agricultural Machinery Exhibition.
Information on Green Road "From Seed to Plate"
Each year hundreds of tourists and schoolchildren all across the region of Murcia visit our nurseries and agricultural cooperatives to know first hand the process of agriculture, the traditional economic activity and more emblematic of Torre Pacheco.
In this route visitors attending the entire process by the fruits and vegetables grown in the fields of Torre Pacheco, since they are seeds until they reach the tables turned into delicacies.
The tour begins in the nursery, to attend births, continuing through the booths of irrigation, greenhouse, planting ending in agricultural cooperatives.
This route has been very well received by students and for many is an approach to a rural world away from their daily lives.
Incredibly many of the children who have not made the green route they can identify different fruit trees and vegetables planted or the name of the most common trees that grow in our environment.
For this and other reasons we consider this very valuable educational path to the knowledge of a reality as early as unknown to many in our current era.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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