The special identity of each territory is made of its unique wealth:

• The local varieties or species, characterized by a certain adaptability to a specific environment and growing conditions in a particular area;
• The tight link between the local variety and its growers’ habits, customs, traditions and knowledge;
• The “guardian farmers”’ important role for the preservation, management, information and dissemination of the autochthonous genetic inheritance.

The updated 2019 edition of the Regional Directory of Agricultural biodiversity L.R. 12/2003

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For the last 20 years, the Marche Region has been committed to create and preserve School Gardens and has acquired outstanding expertise to support the consolidation of a real outdoor educational culture within the school system.
During this period the first early calls for funding had been applied, so that over 1000 school horticulture projects are already activate.
This publication represents an additional forward step in this direction. It provides all schools of the Marche Region with guidelines to make each education school plan compliant with the general trend of outdoor teaching and create a proper regional format. In this regard, particular attention was paid in steering the “School Gardens” towards organic farming and the protection of the species and varieties belonging to the Regional Register of AgroBiodiversity.

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