Agroecological School: a sustainable and dynamic and interdisciplinary attitude.

a sustainable and dynamic and interdisciplinary attitude

Abstract

This work reports the experience of the Século Educational Center, belonging to the private educational network of the state of Amazonas, located in the city of Manaus / AM, whose main objective was to develop, together with the students, activities that use agroecological techniques in the school. The school vegetable garden gains a new nomenclature with the denomination of Agroecological Space is in this space that the students find opportunity to promote the interaction of the being and the ecosystem around them, promoting the interdisciplinarity. Among the activities carried out are composting, which aims to produce organic compost using waste from school feeding and also from the maintenance of gardens, such as pruning plants and grass clippings. In the agro-ecological space, we cultivate species of vegetables adapted to our region and the introduction of non-conventional vegetables, PANCs (Non-Conventional Food Plants), so that students can taste and cultivate new plant varieties with very significant nutritional values ​​and mainly be nourished by plants previously considered as MATO.