getaways to have fun and learn as a family

Summer arrives and the desire to escape the heat of the city for a while grows. It’s a good time to plan family getaways in outdoor areas without going too far from the city. In this plan, the visit to a tambo or to one farm can be a ideal exitthe best setting to live a unique experience, face to face with the animals and in the middle of a relaxing natural setting.

In these productive establishments, adults and children share the learning daily activities in the countryside Buenos Aires while still enjoying a good, relaxed time, having fun and even delighting the palate with typical flavors.

Here, nine options to consider of places attended by specialists, where the importance of environmental care and the preservation of the ecosystem are issues of first order, which are transmitted to visitors through concrete actions.

The agronomist Horacio Martínez and his wife Regina carry out this goat dairy of 6 hectares since 1997 and lead a very educational guided tour of more than an hour through the pens that house 200 animals.

The guides explain that punctually, at 7 and 5 p.m. each day, three employees are dedicated to milk seven goats in their guacheras. They begin with trimming (the manual way that generates the first spurts of milk) and continue with a mechanical method. Production goes into a refrigerated system and the last step is sealing the teats with iodine.

The visit includes the possibility of pet and feed the goats and is completed with a very nutritious chopped local products and a children’s menu. In addition, there are options to combine the educational tour with breakfast, a snack or a tasting of typical flavors of Cañuelas.

• How much does it cost. Guided tour with lunch, $21,700; children’s menu (up to 7 years), $15,400; guided tour with snack, $11,200; up to 7 years, $11,400; with tasting, $8,900; breakfast, $14,200; up to 7 years, $11,400.

• Where to get information. (02226) 15516021 / valledegoni@hotmail.com / Facebook: Valle de Goñi.

This farm managed by the Municipality of Escobar invites you to interact, through caresses and food, with more than 400 animals separated into pens, which include chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, llamas, sheep, horses, goats, donkeys, rabbits and poultry. The place also functions as a rehabilitation center for injured or abandoned specimens.

Furthermore, in Don Benito there is a Air Park for those over 4 years old, which have a circuit of hanging bridges, an arena and a zip line.

• How much does it cost. Admission, $2,100; from 4 to 11 years, $1,400. Aerial park (hanging bridges, arena and zip line), $4,800; from 4 to 8 years, $3,900.

• Where to get information. (153) 7261260 / Facebook: Don Benito Educational Farm.

Just meters from the Luján River, Guillermo Sigmund is the creator of this very complete venture to entertain and discover, through workshops aimed at children, the techniques of some traditional activities of the country mansuch as milking, riding a horse, kneading bread and controlling the production of a farm.

On the other hand, the lunch It starts with a “welcome” of empanada and patero wine and then continues with the tables arranged outdoors and the dining room, where cuts of roast meats are served under the “free” modality, salads, fries and dessert.

• How much does it cost. Field day with activities and lunch, $35,000; from 4 to 10 years, $25,000; 2 and 3 years, $18,000.

• Where to get information. 4773-5091 / (155) 7514715 / info@pequenaholanda.com.ar / www.pequenaholanda.com.ar

It is convenient arrive early to this farm and country restaurant, since there is a lot to do and recreate. The program begins with a breakfast and continue with a guided toura didactic talk about the rural history of the country and typical games of the Buenos Aires pampas. Lunch includes empanadas and free drinks, barbecue, dessert, coffee and a live folklore show.

The afternoon is enjoyed with horse and carriage rides more family games, swimming pool and a snack of fried cakes and cooked mate.

• How much does it cost. Field day with activities, breakfast, barbecue, folkloric show and snack, $38,000; from 4 to 10 years, 50%.

• Where to get information. (152) 2429199 / informes@chacraelrancho.com.ar / www.chacraelrancho.com.ar

In this farm in San Vicente, the best part of the guided tour is the observation of the milking activity and the possibility of get close to the animals and feed themaccording to the instructions of the homeowners.

The Villanova field day also offers recreation on its fields. soccer, volleyball and boccethe sector children’s games and the option of a cabalgatawhich is paid separately. There is also a sector of camping pitches and they can be rented. quinchos and grills.

• How much does it cost. Admission, guided tour and activities, $3,000; up to 3 years, free; camping, $5,000 per person.

• Where to get information. (155) 3396308 / agustina_cordoba@live.com / www.granja-villanova.webnode.page

This farm in the Exaltación de la Cruz district – very close to Capilla del Señor – offers one of the most entertaining proposals to combine a picnic day with a guided tour between pens for rabbits, sheep and pigs, a chicken coop and the pasture occupied by cows and horses.

Adults and children have the opportunity to collect chicken eggs, feed and pet the animals and join the adventure.”treasure hunt“. In addition, children can participate in the Garden Workshop and take home the seedling they make as a gift.

• How much does it cost. Admission, parking, food for the animals and a guided tour of one and a half hours, $7,000; from 3 to 12 years, $6,000; retirees, $5,000.

• Where to get information. (156) 7335612 / Facebook: Chacra Los Cardales.

Sheep, cows, horses and pigs in a semi-rural area of ​​the Almirante Brown district, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires. This model establishment also has a lagoon populated by geese, Australian swans and musket duckswhich appears on the path of the guided tour of an organic garden and a nursery.

Furthermore, in a dairy farm – near the area designated for seasonal vegetables – the milking process. The farm is equipped with public bathrooms, games for children and barbecue areas.

• How much does it cost. Admission and activities, free.

• Where to get information. (155) 0346200 / (153) 6378343 / grnjaeducativamunicipal@brown.gob / www.almirantebrown.gov.ar / Facebook: Granja Educativa Municipal Brown.

In the middle of the Suipacha dairy hub, the guided tour of this dairy specializing in goat products begins with the exhibition of an audiovisual and a didactic talk about the production process, which takes place in the auditorium room.

The tour continues in the Tasting Room, where each visitor receives a table with three varieties of goat cheese and another three of beef cheesefor a “sensory tasting” paired with nuts and a glass of wine or water.

The introductory explanation is particularly interesting because the guides tell the family history of the company that emerged in 1992, run by the descendants of the Italian pioneers Lizziero, today associated with the González family, natives of Spain.

• How much does it cost. Admission and guided tour of one and a half hours, $12,000; from 6 to 12 years, 50%.

• Where to get information. 0810-7770272 / (156) 5135029 / (154) 9917961 / info@piedrasblancas.com.ar / www.piedrasblancas.com.ar

A sustainable educational farm in full activity, located about 6 kilometers from the center of Tandil. Yes, a little further from the city of Buenos Aires (about 340 km) but it is worth it.

In Don Ángel, guided tours are organized for groups of at least ten people, whom the guide leads, for around an hour and a half, through a guachera (calf pens), a tambo (where the milking technique is exhibited and explained, which is carried out in two shifts per day) and laying hen sectors loose, broiler chickens in a pastoral cage, geese y cows that shepherd in a rodeo.

• How much does it cost. Admission and guided tour of one and a half hours for groups of 10 people or more, $1,500 each; from 2 to 6 years, $1,200.

• Where to get information. (0249) 448-7456 / Facebook: Chacra Don Ángel.