{"id":1557,"date":"2021-10-29T02:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viraltimes.climateactionchildhood.net\/?page_id=1557"},"modified":"2022-07-21T02:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T02:20:05","slug":"el-tejar-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/viraltimes.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/gardens\/el-tejar-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"El Tejar Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Educator: Karina Fern\u00e1ndez
Children: Nicol\u00e1s, Jose Maria, Agust\u00edn, Victoria May, Joaquin, Amelia, & Martin<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Cabogana mountain is part of the Andean range that embraces the city of Cuenca. To get to Cabogana, we walk through roads that gradually rise revealing complex landscapes full of contrast that form the valley of the city. The Itinerant School works in two gardens in Cabogana: Racar <\/a>and El Tejar.

Ancient villages full of tradition and memories (natural \/ cultural) settle on the slopes of Cabogana at the same time that urban development grows and stifles its traditional rurality. The traditional brick and tile kilns are intertwined with grocery stores, food places that mix between traditional food and fast-food, cafe-net and a huge storage for one of the main shopping centers in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The itinerant school connects us with spaces that appear forgotten<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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We encounter the abundance that \u201cEl Tejar\u201d Garden offers: grass, trees, old cars, an uninhabited house, its stories, and especially encounters with hens and roosters.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The hens and roosters catch our attention as they run away from us, almost as if we are obstacles. We are attracted to their rhythms of eating, drinking, running away from us, walking (what looks to us) randomly, attempting to fly, caring for each other, fighting, nesting.\u00a0We observe more carefully.

These encounters force us to rethink time and to work with the hens\u2019 and roosters\u2019 temporalities. We realize the difficulties of meeting hens\u2019\/roosters\u2019 busyness.

We take this difficulty up as a pedagogical invitation to slow down in order to attend with care to these animals and their ways of being.\u00a0<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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