From Madrid to the garden: More fun to plan to enjoy a rural weekend, in Sierra Norte de Madrid

The summer has arrived, and with it, many products of mountain ecological Orchard season of Agritourism the Capriolo. With good weather in the summer months, The Orchard again filled with life. Organic farming is a necessary model for diets and healthy and sustainable development.

For this reason, "El Nogalejo" Orchard is open so that children and adults will come to it in order to discover how it works, What are their processes and different types of fruits, vegetables, vegetables and aromatic plants that can be grown in an organic garden in the Sierra Norte de Madrid.

Now is the best time so that the little ones - and older - can verify firsthand where products that eat every day are removed. How are harvested tomatoes, the lettuce and onions, that you do not leave the super, fate of the Earth, or potatoes that love them.

More fun to plan for natural products that gives us the Earth

Summer is the time that most of the products are collected, so the garden is at its best. Lettuce, rocket, Chard, cucumbers, Zucchini, Peppers, Eggplant, beans, onions, peas or carrots are some of the products that can be found and collected in our garden during this time of the year. Soon there will also be tomatoes and potatoes, since, by the climatic conditions of the Sierra Norte, they gathered later.

From the second half of August and in September, "The Nogalejo" adopts new colors, It is when fruit trees begin to fruit. Raspberries, currants, Blackberries, Apples and many other fruits which are then made delicious homemade jams.

The visit to the garden of The Capriolo It is an activity that promotes sustainable and healthy education and nature approaching children in a fun and entertaining way. An activity for the whole family, How to go to the supermarket, but in the countryside and in a unique environment of the Valley of the Lozoya, in the heart of Sierra Norte de Madrid.

In the Sierra Norte de Madrid, We offer you the possibility of knowing, very close, the work and the more traditional uses of del monte, We have experts, It will help you to know as a traditional Orchard works, the management of livestock, forest harvesting, beekeeping, or even to collect fruits of the forest...