The Traditional Knowledge Workshops are designed to stimulate interest in issues related to agricultural and pastoral life, biodiversity and the relationship between man and landscape. These workshops go beyond the mere contemplation, offering a practical and multidisciplinary approach to various themes.
Workshop 1: Discovering the Flora of the Gralheira Mountains
The flora of the Gralheira Mountains is a huge and complex world, details of which are often unnoticed to most people. Thorough knowledge of local flora is shared, first by local experts, we can talk about the names and popular uses of plants as well as stories and myths around them and, secondly, by experts who systematize, catalog and discover species and can speak of their morphological and bio-chemical properties
It is precisely this encounter between traditional knowledge and science that will be the key point of this workshop: Mr. Domingos’ deep knowledge of the flora of the area Manhouce (and the village of Gamoal) and an expert in botany form the University of Coimbra will share with the participants as much information about the plants of this unique area of our country.
Program:
10h00 – 13h00 – Background flora of the Gralheira Mountains (the vision of science).
13:00 – Typical lunch
14h30 – 17h30 – Analysis and sharing of information and knowledge from the collection of specimens identified in a brief rundown
A certificate of participation in the workshop is to be granted.
Workshop 2: The cycle of honey in the Gralheira Mountains
Honey is the sweet substance that bees produce, removing the flower nectar juices or other sweet juices, which exist in certain parts of the plants and enriching – the substances produced in his body, changing – the, worsening them and storing them in the comb to ripen.
To produce one kilogram of honey, bees have to visit six million flowers of clover simple or one million six hundred thousand flowers of acacia. Its high nutrient content, its richness in active elements important to the man and his digestible make honey an ideal food.
Program:
10:00 a.m – 12:30 h – Background: fauna and flora, Fundamentals on the cycle of honey and hives seen
13:00 p.m. - Typical lunch
14:30 p.m. – The hive and its “worker,” Extraction of honey handles
17:00 p.m. - Degustation
A certificate of participation in the workshop is to be granted.
