Horta escolar agroecológica: cultivando saberes com crianças da comunidade quilombola do Engenho Siqueira em Rio Formoso, PE

Abstract

The present work proposes to present the results obtained in the experience of implementing and maintaining an agroecological garden at the José Minervino Roberto Municipal School located in the Quilombola Community of Engenho Siqueira, which is located in the municipality of Rio Formoso-PE. This experience report is part of the extension project called “Agroecology at school”: promoting environmental education and food security for quilombola children” where several actions related to agroecology and environmental education were carried out, with an in-depth look at sustainability, recycling and reuse of solid waste such as the use of tires and pet bottles, as well as the use of organic waste in the production of compost, and food education. The benefits of having a garden at school for educational purposes were also discussed, in which it is possible to work in an interdisciplinary way on different subjects, promoting the popular knowledge that children obtained, and developing the ability to work collectively. The experiences we had were quite successful as we were able to clearly see the changes that the implementation of the agroecological garden caused in the environment, not only at school, but also in relation to social life on the part of the students involved. With all that was experienced, we can infer that the work was able to expose observations regarding the positive points that stood out most in the project's performance, in this two-year period, involving learning about agroecology as a whole, knowledge acquired about the vegetable production with regard to plantations carried out in the agroecological garden, as well as practices carried out in relation to agroecological principles. Due to these factors, the construction and maintenance of this space in the school environment is interesting