Chunyuguiruyou" this poem a household name, but the modern we even don't understand how precious oil, how can one understand the meaning of this verse? Supermarket in large barrels of oil are only dozens of Yuan can easily get so cheap that it might as well be family in the average restaurant meal prices. Where does oil come from? Who where the raw material is grown and processed in some way? Living in the city most of us unable to give answers to these questions.
Ashamed to say, although I recently has always insisted on eating less oil to eat oily, try to buy organic cooking oil, but for the whole process of the oil is still little is known about the condition. On May 28 this year, the first time I "bit" experienced oil, is four-leaf thatched cottage train garden in Shanghai.
Said to be "little" experience, because traditional oil is a complex thing, not a day to complete. The event organizers purposely skipped a number of time-consuming steps, so that family can concentrate on experience the oil extraction process in the key and interesting links.
About four-leaf thatched cottage train garden
Four-leaf thatched cottage consists of landscape science, Tongji University Liu Yueh-to teacher education institutions. The most special is that they co-operate with many businesses and communities in the city of Shanghai, a number of "edible gardens" – the story, is carefully designed to look like a Garden City Garden.
Train garden is only four-leaf thatched cottage is one of the bases, century Park, three or four villages in Anshan, KIC and other areas have built a city garden. The garden's biggest objective is not to produce food, but for the community members with a platform to make the connection, provided with learning and play area for the kids, and ultimately hope that residents maintain a vegetable garden and self-motivated activity. A small output of crops, of course not enough to eat, it doesn't matter, condition of the urban gardens can also be sold from many of the suburban eco-farm ingredients, building bridges between urban and
When it comes to the train garden, that was truly, really every now and then a train passes. The garden is made up of four-leaf thatched cottages and smart Valley cooperative was founded. Locations on the Shanghai Metro Line 3 line song sent Lu standing by near the train tracks, fully embody recycling concept, the garden came from a 7-acre abandoned wastelands transformed natural classroom was transformed from recycling containers, more is made of recycled materials in the classroom table and stool, manual work. In the downtown, it's like a mystery-like place.
From rapeseed to canola oil
I visited this rain, but the container has enough room to carry out activities in the classroom. Morning and afternoon respectively with the participation of more than more than 10 groups of family, the children curiosity broke out, rapeseed, oil this past every family used to work for them is a novel thing than the latest game.
Said to oil activities, not directly into rapeseed oil can. But to get the seeds from the pods of rape in "play out", picking, sorting, and so on. Participation of adults and children were seen rape of love for all dried fruits are like, lead activities lichens sisters deliberately set aside some time for everyone to observe the first rape and canola pods, and settle down to do the natural notes. These rape is on the train to original methods to grow out of the garden. A rape will bear the number of the pod, pod rank growth, what law do you watch it?
This is naturally called "Maple Leaf Chinese Restaurant" children's nature notes, details to be broken on the seed pods of the roots of all the (three dimensional).
Next the oil process quite hilarious, and share some pictures for everyone to enjoy, and don't miss the oil video record of the entire process.
Active video
This is a good series of steps such as precipitation and filtration processes, you can rest assured that consumption of canola oil. Time-consuming process will have no shows, but every family to bring a small bottle of processed canola oil in advance to go home.
Profile of the train garden
Finally, got their own precious canola oil, parent the children can go to train plant in the garden, picking fruits and vegetables. There are no farms in the countryside such a large scale, but many varieties of crops, corn, potatoes, blueberries, Rosemary ... ... And mulberry trees, loquat trees, fruit trees, picked over dinner to share. Garden does not pursue production, the harvest of some crops will continue to be left in the ground after the finish until the flowering to seed
The day of rain, so I rest indoors for a long time, but in the container will not feel bored in the classroom. Can't read interesting things here, for example, the most appealing to children is a "primitive" style, pyramid-shaped small "Castle"; also has numerous natural handmade works, even the branches can become a toy, a piece of humble leaves form without colour picture ... ..
A big tub of vegetable seeds, squeezed out of rapeseed oil was only a small cup, most of these substances are left in the debris. But the oil extraction process, no waste rapeseed Rod blank pods can be made into compost, oil residue is nutrient-rich fertilizer or animal feed, and no "junk". Resource recycling, urban gardens can also be practiced.
How precious is the canola oil, some of yourself oil can feel, if coupled with the growing process from autumn to spring, we can understand more fully. Sincerely hope that more children can recognize that food is not only money can buy.
We share so much about urban agriculture and nature education article, but in an area of 7 acres of a city the size of plantations in the nature education activities, this was my first time. Train garden also conducted a variety of activities, not just by a single sponsor organizations, other agencies may also use the site.
As we have repeatedly said, agriculture is worth much more than providing food, it can also improve the environment and enhance biodiversity, healing the heart, provide education and opportunities for community interaction, and so on. Compared to rural areas, in the cities, because there are more people gathered, more convenient, and can focus more on diversification of agriculture values reflected. Four-leaf thatched cottage City Garden is a good example.
Recently, KIC's urban gardens has opened (was looking forward to visiting), and farmers market became the heart of the new station; train garden will be held in August, China's first urban park design certification course ... ... New dynamic four-leaf thatched cottage, and number of urban gardens has also continued to increase. Practitioners of many similar efforts in the future, whether it will slowly become closer to big cities like Shanghai pastoral course? We may imagine more boldly, then do it.
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