📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Around the year, school classes, children's groups and families come to the ‘Stallgespräch’, an -encounter and educational project – set on a farm with animals, garden and fields to work there. By feeding the animals and observing them, knowledge and skills in dealing with different species of animals are learned. In doing so, the visitors should develop respect towards these living beings. The animals of the project are carefully accustomed to the encounter with the people and deployed within their possibilities and abilities. The project also offers the visitors the opportunity to plant, harvest and cook their own food and thus contributes to raise awar-ness of sustainable agrarian- and food culture as well as the appreciation of healthy food.
💼 What the programme involves
Caring of the animals; disassembly and arrangement of a trailer for the visitors; construction of a horse paddock and an animal shelter; renewal of the fences; help with organic farming (such as weeding, digging); the work is varied and there is something for everyone
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents or on straw (please bring a camping mat and a thick sleeping bag); shower, toilet, shared kitchen available
Cooking together in the group
📍 About the location
The farm is located in the small but very lively town of [Alfter](https://goo.gl/maps/xhVNKTNnPMP2) between the major cities of Cologne and Bonn.
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in species-appropriate animal husbandry and organic farming; friendly handling of animals; interest in manual labor; technical skills helpful
ℹ️ Additional information
During leisure: possibility of excursions to Cologne and Bonn; hiking in the Siebengebirge (Seven Hills Region); Rhine cruises; swimming in a nearby outdoor pool
For further information on the project please [see](https://www.stallgespraech-alfter.de/)