Welcome to the Huerta de Intercambio de Saberes in the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar!
This is an educational and research project which aims to unite students, farmers and teachers around a crucial topic: FOOD: How to grow healthy, nutritious and local produce while taking care of Nature amidst the serious threat of Climate Change.
The Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar (UTB) is a private university located in Cartagena de Indias, right in the middle of a growing Industrial Zone. Its campus has a small but very beautiful dry tropical forest, one of the last wild spots remaining in this area.
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities has received the important task of guarding a fraction of this forest while conducting research: This is The Huerta de Intercambio de Saberes (The Knowledge Exchange Farm): a 8.554 square meters terrain of young forest that we aim to study, understand and preserve.
We will be conducting some interesting activities inside The Farm like an Intensive Permaculture Workshop with farmers from the Montes de Maria region co-funded by WWF's Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN), the construction of a traditional palm kiosk, the creation of a food forest, some experiments on water harvesting, a course taught by a peasant´s leader for students to learn how to grow food using the traditional small farmer´s methods, the creation of a wild corridor and the identification of the flora and fauna of the forest.
Please visit this site again and join us in this journey with Nature!
We will be conducting some interesting activities inside The Farm like an Intensive Permaculture Workshop with farmers from the Montes de Maria region co-funded by WWF's Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN), the construction of a traditional palm kiosk, the creation of a food forest, some experiments on water harvesting, a course taught by a peasant´s leader for students to learn how to grow food using the traditional small farmer´s methods, the creation of a wild corridor and the identification of the flora and fauna of the forest.
Please visit this site again and join us in this journey with Nature!