Teaching in farming

You can stroke and feed different animals: We have lambs, goats, rabbits, donkeys, a pony, hens and a variety of birds.
Option: Corn workshop, where we finish by giving the hens the food we’ve prepared. You can also milk the plastic cow. This area is accompanied by a mural of various farm animals, cows, a farmer milking by hand and children eating dairy products.

The children can give the calves fresh grass and then learn about the people needed to weigh a cow on our scales.

We visit the calf area, where they are still suckling and live together in sheds in groups of 5.

Area used to prepare the cows’ food rations of different cereals, fodder, straw, alfalfa, beer bagasse, minerals, etc., and where we keep the trailer (thermomixer) that’s used to make and distribute the mixture.

We use all the rainwaters to irrigate our fields. And we also have a good squad of ducks.

All the organic matter that is produced by the biogas process goes to a solids separator and we use it to make ideal compost for gardening and growing vegetables.

Every half year we fatten 4 Duroc breed pigs that are used to complement the visits to the farm. And when the time comes, we make delicious hams and Catalan sausages.

These are the cows that will be giving birth in less than 2 months. They have special food, background music and are brushed, all to improve their wellbeing.

We have these in 5 different courtyards. They are the cows we milk 3 times every day. They are also brushed, have music and automatic cleaning systems.

The dairy is the area where we have the tanks for cooling and storing the milk at its optimum temperature: 3ºC.
2 x 16 parallel milking hall. We milk 32 cows at a time and the milk goes directly to the cooling tank.

Spectacular Mas Bes miniature Divided into 9 sections, the miniature is interactive and allows you to get to know all the farming processes that we carry out on the farm, from fertilisation of the fields to the actual harvest. We will also be able to view the audiovisual clip “Animal Wellbeing”, where we explain the day-to-day of the animals that live at Mas Bes.

Area where we can show different audio-visuals according to the characteristics of each group.

Old oil process. / Grape harvest and oil production. / Churning. / Firewood and charcoal process. / Flour and bread process. / Old tractors collection. / Cows, steers and horses, equipped to do different jobs. / Collection of over 100 churns of different sizes. / Exhibition of basketmaking of La Selva (Jaume Vilà Collection). / Exhibition of different farmhouses and hermitages of La Selva (Manel Ripoll Collection). / Exhibition of different traditional measures of capacity and weight.

Exhibition of animals in our surroundings:
A collection that goes back over 50 years, donated by Mr. Miquel Puig and Irene Berga and authorised by the Department of Fauna of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia on behalf of the “Nature and Rural World of La Selva” Association. Over 350 different animals (mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, etc.)

We round off the visit by sampling some Mas Bes artisan flatbread and milk.