Tasty rhizomes
Mar 01, 2018
The Educational Unit of the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia proposes cultivating ginger and turmeric using the rhizomes we can find at the market.
Etiqueta: educational activity
Planting a vegetable garden at home
Dec 30, 2017
If you want to create your own vegetable garden, the Educational Unit of the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia offers some advice on how to start it.
Re… cycle and reuse to reduce
Jun 13, 2016
Some plants you could use for your aromatic garden – that are very useful for the kitchen, too – are mint, basil and rosemary. Mint for soups, salads, meats, sauces and beverages. The basil is useful to elaborate sauces like pesto, pistou and ragù among
Colour it
Nov 16, 2015
Discovering All the Shades of Green
Feb 03, 2015
This workshop was developed in order to study autumn, but the striking coloration of this season does not actually appear until early December at the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia.
Moisturising Lotion
Mar 07, 2014
[caption id="attachment_14976" align="alignleft" width="200"] Education Unit of the Botanic Garden of the University of Valencia[/caption]Lotion: semi-solid emulsion for pharmaceutical or cosmetic application. This is our activity for this issue, a bee-wax lotion made with sweet-almond oil and cocoa butter. Natural animal or plant products are
Quinoa, the mother crop
Jun 10, 2013
2013 is the year of quinoa as declared by the United Nations. Quinoa, quinuao kinwa (Chenopodiumquinoa) is a plant that belongs to the same family of beets and spinach. But, as the seed is edible and used the same way as cereals, quinoa is considered
A carnivorous garden
Feb 15, 2013
With a mere mention to carnivorous plants, our imagination is roused. There are a huge number of shapes, corresponding to eleven families, eighteen genera and 671 species. Utricularia, Nepenther and Drosera are the ones with the largest number of species, with more than one hundred