Ephesus Field Life Village

Ephesus Field Life Village

Ephesus Field Life Village
Ephesus Field Life Village, which includes a Soil School, Seed Center, Agricultural Museum, Soil Library, Village Institutes Memorial Room, Small Farmers Playroom, Seed Cafe, Sowing-Planting Areas and a Greenhouse, has been welcoming local and foreign guests as the first stop of the Inspiring City of Ephesus Selçuk by combining the women and agricultural identity of our city with its historical identity since its official opening on June 02, 2021.

Soil School Activities:

Trainings and events are organized in order to raise soil awareness and knowledge in citizens of all ages and professions, from our children to our veterans, and to add value to the journey of food from the soil.

At the Soil School, where we blend the ancient knowledge of soil with modern scientific techniques, we invite each participant to protect the harmony of nature and life and to be a harmonious part of nature.

Since June, seminars, trainings and workshops have been organized with the participation of more than 600 children and 500 adults in this journey that we started with the aim of equipping our children, the citizens of the world of the future, with the knowledge of nature and life and enabling them to become social individuals.

In order to develop a way of life that considers diversity and sustainability, that can be a part of the whole and establish meaningful relationships with all living things, we have organized seminars and workshops where children's hands touch the soil, where they bring together the seeds of the foods they are used to seeing on their tables with the soil, and where their own hands touch the soil.

On certain days of the week, we meet with farmers, young people, experienced people and children and organize talks, trainings and events where we enjoy the taste of producing together on every subject from Soil Analysis, Flora Fauna of Efes Selçuk, Olive Growing, Medicinal Aromatic plants to vegetables and fruits that come to our table, where Mother Earth is at the center. Our primary goal and model in the workshops, where Creative Drama, music-rhythm and painting techniques and methods are used from time to time, taking into account interdisciplinary relations, is the method of learning 'by having fun, doing and living' in accordance with the philosophy of the Ephesus Field Life Village.

Life Village; Designing education programs for children, youth and adults, training of trainers, developing and implementing joint projects in line with the duties and authorities of both institutions, organizing meetings, symposiums, seminars and workshops when necessary, and promoting sustainable, nature-friendly, sustainable plant and animal production that takes climate change into account, creating employment areas in agriculture, increasing the economic value of women's labor by supporting cooperatives, planning trainings to create a market for small producers, preparing training programs for all Seljuks, especially for children and young people, and ensuring the economic, social and cultural development of the city; improving the existing production systems, increasing the production of our ancient products that are about to disappear, disseminating new products and production systems in order to ensure nature-friendly rural development that takes into account the local problems of farmers engaged in agricultural production in rural areas, cooperatives, economic, social and cultural climate change.

Soil Library Activities:

Knowing that life sprouts in the soil, in order to contribute to development by reading to know the soil and to produce, we serve researchers, interested people and farmers in the Soil Library, which contains over 1300 books on the journey of the seed and the ancient knowledge of the soil, in a way that everyone, big and small, can benefit.

Village Institutes Memorial Room and İsmail Hakkı Tonguç Agriculture Museum

Inspired by the Village Institutes' step of bringing bread, books, art, music, democracy, democracy and enlightenment to villages and people, a memory room was created in the Ephesus Field Life Village to reminisce about the past.

The Agriculture Museum is located in the Life Village as a cultural point where we present the journey of food from seed to table and the trace of agriculture and food practices from past to present.