Farm2Table
Who can sign up?
Anyone
IMPORTANT: Please note that you cannot go on a same trip twice.
Location: Chrastice, Czech Republic
Departure: September 2 - Monday
Arrival: September 6 - Friday
Overnight trip: yes
Meals: All food included
Cost of the trip: 4 500 CZK
Spending money for food and snacks: 500 CZK for snacks
Transportation: School Bus
Accommodation: Farma Chraštice
Itinerary of the trip, logistics and packing info is available here.
Who can sign up?
Anyone
IMPORTANT: Please note that you cannot go on a same trip twice.
Location: Chrastice, Czech Republic
Departure: September 2 - Monday
Arrival: September 6 - Friday
Overnight trip: yes
Meals: All food included
Cost of the trip: 4 500 CZK
Spending money for food and snacks: 500 CZK for snacks
Transportation: School Bus
Accommodation: Farma Chraštice
Itinerary of the trip, logistics and packing info is available here.
Course description
A five-day authentic farm experience, living, eating, working, learning and playing on a real farm in the beautiful Bohemian countryside south of Prague. Our hosts, the owners of ‘Farm In The Woods’, are a young couple (a Czech man and a Canadian woman, both with excellent English) who spent two years as the stars of a reality-documentary Czech television programme about farm life. Learn hands-on how milk, eggs, meat, cheese, butter, vegetables, fruit, jams and preserves go from farm to kitchen to plate. Discover how it is possible to live and work sustainably, in harmony with the natural environment. After breakfast in the first half of each day, we’ll take excursions to learn about traditional and modern food production, as well as visit local sites: a 13th Century castle by the Vltava River, a buffalo dairy farm, a camel farm (yes, lots of live camels), and the historic town of Tabor (established by Jan Hus’ Protestant followers in 1420). We’ll relax at lunch in traditional restaurants. In the afternoons, we’ll return to our host farm to work together with animals, in the field and orchard, or in the farm kitchen. Dinners will be farm-produced food that we’ll make ourselves. This experience connects us with rural life, technology of the past and present, nature, sustainable living, and a sense of community. And we won’t sleep in the barn; there are real beds in our countryside pension, and showers for everyone to wash off that healthy farm earth each evening.
Note: Dinners will be prepared by a rotating team of students, taught and supervised by the farmers. This experience will include learning the origin, uses and names of foods, most of which are produced organically on the farm. Slaughtering of smaller animals (e.g. chickens, ducks) is optional. Most meat included in meals comes from animals raised on the farm. Students should be prepared for an outdoor work on a farm - cooking, tending to animals, baking, gardening and other farm work; they should be comfortable around animals (consider allergies); vegetarians can be accommodated. There are two friendly dogs on the farm, and lots of other animals, including sheep, goats and a donkey.
Mornings on Days 2, 3 and 4 will be organised similarly, with three smaller teams of students working and learning about specific farm activities. Crews will work on one type of assignment one day, then rotate to a new activity the next, etc., so everyone will finish with a complete variety of farm experiences
CAS Opportunities for IB Students: This trip relates to the “Activity” aspect of CAS. The first half of each day is the active part, and full participation and cooperation with the farmers and your student team is expected. Talk to the trip chaperones in advance if you would like the trip to become part of your CAS portfolio.
Impacts
Students will challenge themselves to learn new skills, sometimes outside their own comfort zones. They will reflect on their own relationship to food and nature - biologically, economically, socially and ethically. They will also become more aware of and skilled in cooperation and team dynamics, working closely with peers and farmers in rotating assignments, following schedules based on 'natural cycles' determined by farm life.
ISP Mission Links
i) Authentic education - "...learning at ISP is an enjoyable, thought provoking and dynamic process, which allows students to make meaningful and relevant connections. Learners are given the opportunity to experience and apply "real world" knowledge and skills from a variety of disciplines. In other words instead of simply learning about the subject, students have the opportunity to 'do' the discipline as a practitioner would."
ii) Adapt and contribute responsibly to our changing world - "Developing essential skills and competencies enable us to evaluate the shifting circumstances we encounter, take calculated risks and adapt well to change. Our core values guide us to make responsible choices and actively support the needs of our local and global communities."
iii) Work Cooperatively and Independently: Use a variety of interpersonal skills to engage peers in productive collaborative work, while retaining the capacity to create, based on one’s own abilities.
iv) Healthy - "Caring for our physical and emotional well-being enables us to lead balanced lives in work and in play, with the goal of developing a sound mind, body and spirit."
A five-day authentic farm experience, living, eating, working, learning and playing on a real farm in the beautiful Bohemian countryside south of Prague. Our hosts, the owners of ‘Farm In The Woods’, are a young couple (a Czech man and a Canadian woman, both with excellent English) who spent two years as the stars of a reality-documentary Czech television programme about farm life. Learn hands-on how milk, eggs, meat, cheese, butter, vegetables, fruit, jams and preserves go from farm to kitchen to plate. Discover how it is possible to live and work sustainably, in harmony with the natural environment. After breakfast in the first half of each day, we’ll take excursions to learn about traditional and modern food production, as well as visit local sites: a 13th Century castle by the Vltava River, a buffalo dairy farm, a camel farm (yes, lots of live camels), and the historic town of Tabor (established by Jan Hus’ Protestant followers in 1420). We’ll relax at lunch in traditional restaurants. In the afternoons, we’ll return to our host farm to work together with animals, in the field and orchard, or in the farm kitchen. Dinners will be farm-produced food that we’ll make ourselves. This experience connects us with rural life, technology of the past and present, nature, sustainable living, and a sense of community. And we won’t sleep in the barn; there are real beds in our countryside pension, and showers for everyone to wash off that healthy farm earth each evening.
Note: Dinners will be prepared by a rotating team of students, taught and supervised by the farmers. This experience will include learning the origin, uses and names of foods, most of which are produced organically on the farm. Slaughtering of smaller animals (e.g. chickens, ducks) is optional. Most meat included in meals comes from animals raised on the farm. Students should be prepared for an outdoor work on a farm - cooking, tending to animals, baking, gardening and other farm work; they should be comfortable around animals (consider allergies); vegetarians can be accommodated. There are two friendly dogs on the farm, and lots of other animals, including sheep, goats and a donkey.
Mornings on Days 2, 3 and 4 will be organised similarly, with three smaller teams of students working and learning about specific farm activities. Crews will work on one type of assignment one day, then rotate to a new activity the next, etc., so everyone will finish with a complete variety of farm experiences
CAS Opportunities for IB Students: This trip relates to the “Activity” aspect of CAS. The first half of each day is the active part, and full participation and cooperation with the farmers and your student team is expected. Talk to the trip chaperones in advance if you would like the trip to become part of your CAS portfolio.
Impacts
Students will challenge themselves to learn new skills, sometimes outside their own comfort zones. They will reflect on their own relationship to food and nature - biologically, economically, socially and ethically. They will also become more aware of and skilled in cooperation and team dynamics, working closely with peers and farmers in rotating assignments, following schedules based on 'natural cycles' determined by farm life.
ISP Mission Links
i) Authentic education - "...learning at ISP is an enjoyable, thought provoking and dynamic process, which allows students to make meaningful and relevant connections. Learners are given the opportunity to experience and apply "real world" knowledge and skills from a variety of disciplines. In other words instead of simply learning about the subject, students have the opportunity to 'do' the discipline as a practitioner would."
ii) Adapt and contribute responsibly to our changing world - "Developing essential skills and competencies enable us to evaluate the shifting circumstances we encounter, take calculated risks and adapt well to change. Our core values guide us to make responsible choices and actively support the needs of our local and global communities."
iii) Work Cooperatively and Independently: Use a variety of interpersonal skills to engage peers in productive collaborative work, while retaining the capacity to create, based on one’s own abilities.
iv) Healthy - "Caring for our physical and emotional well-being enables us to lead balanced lives in work and in play, with the goal of developing a sound mind, body and spirit."