Active Program during summertime
Guided walks - Topic based walks
Every Monday
"From the grain to the bread" An exciting family walk to the mills ( may-october )
This walk leads you to the "Tötscherhof" farm. You will experience the farmers' life firsthand and help baking bread in the old stone oven and taste the delicious freshly baked bread afterwards. You can see a mill which is still operable and there watch the corn being ground by the mill stones which are merely driven by water power.
Every Monday in August
Afternoon seminar about mushrooms, mountain flowers and herbs in Italian
An expert will help you to discover the secrets of medical plants and explain you how to use them for health, beauty and culinary matters. You will also be introduced to the secret world of mushrooms and learn how to identify and classify them. You will get useful information on how to collect, cook and store them.
Every Tuesday: May - October
Cultural and historical walk -"Stones have a story to tell" Paths through an old cultural landscape
Interesting and worth knowing information about the origin and cultivation of landscape, animals and plants, about people's life and work in the course of time. On our way we will encounter wrought stones either as cuboids next to an old building or as parts of benches, steps, gates, fountains, fence support, or as milestones in the fields and meadows, or as mill stones in the old flour mills near the streams. The stones were once picked up from the stubbed meadows and then used to laminate beautiful walls; mighty walls were built next to the houses to protect them from floods. Stones were also used as paving stones in streets and village squares and all of them have a story to tell.
Herb walk - Gifts from nature in its perfection: herbs and cheese
When visiting the herb garden "Bergila"we will tell you more about the art of collecting and using flowers, leaves and roots at the right moment. Then you will visit the mountain pine oil distillery and during the tasting receive some useful information on its production. We will walk along a flower and herb path to the "Gatscherhof" farm, where you can have a look at the cheese production and taste some of it afterwords.
Period of time: about 4 hours.
Level of difficulty: easy.
