Visit with the 1st year Horticulture students at Honda Greens.
All day we were seeing and tested machines and tools. We want to thank Honda Green for
explaining and showing them all the latest developments in the sector. A super productive
day.
In July, around 160 hectares were flown over with a drone, to supplement the existing
information on the Quintanes farm to improve management.
With the photos obtained, a 3D model will be generated using photogrammetry techniques to
obtain some products such as an orthophoto and a digital model of the piece of land. This
action has been carried out within the scope of the drafting of the new Technical
Management and Forestry Improvement Plan for the Quintanes estate.
Last Tuesday, October 4, students from the 2nd year of Agricultural Production had the
opportunity to visit Mas Terricabras, in Oristà. The Rovira Costa family is responsible for this
agricultural and livestock holding. It has different activities such as pig production, a herd of
grazing cows, and fattening calves. They have different crops like cereal crops for grain,
fodder crops intended to feed the herd, unique crops such as chickpeas with Denomination
of Origin, and crops of varieties with differential qualities such as Xeixa and Forment wheat.
Mas Terricabras is also an innovative company that uses renewable energies, such as the
biomass produced on the farm to heat the farm and photovoltaic solar panels that produce
electricity.
Mas Terricabras opens its doors to the public, welcomes visitors, and participates in the
farmer's welcome days: Many things to see, learn and experience! From the Quintanes
center, we are grateful to the Rovira Costa de Mas Terricabras family, for their kindness and
for letting our students make this fascinating visit.
+ info: https://www.instagram.com/masterricabras/
Having first aid skills and knowledge helps create safer and healthier communities. This is
what all the National Societies of the Red Cross promote and work for. It ensures that
children and adults must have access to quality first aid education, a lifelong commitment to
learning, and providing first aid that makes a more resilient society.
As a center, we provide our students with this vital knowledge. Every year at the beginning of
the course, the Red Cross visits our center to provide this training to all our first-year
students.
We are very grateful to the Masies de Voltregà Town Council, which subsidizes this training,
demonstrating the sensitivity and support towards this learning within the school
environment.
We want to thank everyone who participated in the magazine, without you the magazine
would not be possible!
We hope you like it a lot, we did it with all the effort in the world, hoping to convey the
essence of what happens in Quintanes throughout the year.
+info:
http://www.quintanes.com/imatges/reg1001272_arxiu1_22-04-2022_20-36-34.pdf
+ info: http://www.quintanes.com/imatges/reg1001272_arxiu1_22-04-2022_20-36-34.pdf
On June 20, 2022, Mr. Pedro Sillero of the company Honda Greens de la Garriga delivered
a model CPH 55 sulfating trolley. This machine will be used for plant pathology practices for
gardeners, farmers, and foresters.
One more machine to expand the range of possibilities to do real practices of phytosanitary
treatments with E.F.A.’s students.
From here we want to thank the company Honda Greens. In particular Mr.Pere Cañizares
and Pedro Sillero for their help, collaboration, and support in the formation of our students of
current and future professionals in the sector.
The Cal Ros in Muntanyola farm is part of a European project know as FERTIMANURE in
which UVic (Beta Center) and the Vic Flat Cooperative collaborate.
A project was carried out for the innovative recovery of nutrients from secondary sources to
produce high-value-added fertilizers from animal manure. FERTIMANURE is an acronym
given in English as ” Fertilizers from animal MANURE”.
Twenty partners from seven EU countries, Argentina and Chile are teaming up to implement
this project.
We did a study visit to learn about the possibilities of drones in the world of landscaping. A
tool of the present with a bright future.
The BCN Drone Center is 1 of the only 10 drone centers in the world. The first civilian drone
company in Europe, and one of the pioneers worldwide, is here next door.
European Forestry and Environmental Skills Council (EFESC) is an organization of
members of industry representatives and organizations that manage and oversee the
capacity certification processes and competencies at the national level. EFESC was
established in 2009 by members of the project Leonardo of the UE. In 2012 the EFESC
Manual was approved, and the organization was formally established.
EFESC's mission is to make smoother the mobility of forestry workers and green areas
within the European Union in the accreditation and promotion of the recognition of individual
national qualifications among partner countries at the European level.
In May Kris Hofkens (Inverde, Belgium), Jessica Schmidt (KWF, Germany) and Carles Lorca
(EFESC National Agency, CTFC) visited the school to carry out the control audit.
Al principio del grado nos gusta realizar un viaje para introducir a los alumnos de primero de
Grado Medio en el mundo de la Jardinería, por eso fuimos de viaje al País Valenciano,
donde se programaron visitas a diferentes espacios para que puedan observar diferentes
zonas verdes de tipologías variadas.
El objetivo de este viaje era ver los diferentes espacios verdes que puede haber y que
puede acabar trabajando el alumno, ya que vimos jardines privados, parques públicos,
jardines históricos y botánicos y finalmente un parque natural.
Last November 16th the agricultural students visited the exploitation of the dairy sheep farm
of Serradet de Barneres. First, they learn another way to conceive livestock. The farmer
adjusts to the animal's natural rhyme and not only makes connects with them, but also
makes it economically viable. Although it may sound incredible, in this way and with only 100
sheep can live 3 families.
We’ve been visiting them for years, and we state that this option is valid.
Over the years, it
grows stronger and adapts easily to the changes that may occur. In closing, let us thank
Maria Llorens and her hospitality
Day of the cork cam with the students of Exploitation and Conservation of the Natural
Environment (FORESTRY).
Peeling the cork consist of extracting it from the cork oaks(Quercus Suber). The cork, which
is the tree's bark, is peeled with an ax, and it’s cut in vertical cuts (without exceeding the
tree's capacity to regenerate). After that, we lever to remove the cork. Once peeled, the tree
receives treatment to ensure its survival and subsequent exploitation.
It takes an average of 50 years to be able to make the first extraction of the cork oak.
Moreover, it can be peeled every 14 years. We obtain the worst quality of the cork in the two
first extractions, this cork can be used to make a conglomerate for insulation or panels. For
the third time, the cork has better quality, and now it can be used to produce cork cam.
From the Middle Ages to the 16th and 17th centuries, cork was used to make
beehives, shoe soles, or insulators.
