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As city dweller, and their children, do not have precise ideas about how food is grown and how nature ‘works’ the response are the didactic farms, ie working farms, normally in the outskirts of big cities, where visitors are shown how vegetables are grown and cattle raised.

As one didactic farm – Pantalica Ranch, near Siracusa (Italy) – describes itself as follows:”The didactic farm is a farming business led according to procedures of biological agriculture, in which outdoor school is held in a living and active way, where children experience the animal life and the origin of the products they consume”.

Also, visitors can normally buy the products grown at the farm, so combining learning and buying.

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