机构创立与六大教学基地
利普卡环境教育学校（全称布尔诺利普卡环境教育学校，属捷克南摩拉维亚州下属公立拨款机构）由生态教育学者阿莱什·马哈尔与生物学家哈娜·科尔瓦索娃在天鹅绒革命后筹建，于1991年10月27日在布尔诺皮萨尔基区功能主义别墅花园内种下一棵小橡树正式启用，起步时仅有五名员工。为兼顾民间保育与公立教学，两位创办人同期分别设立了非政府组织与公立学校机构。2026年1月1日起，由弗拉迪斯拉娃·科拉日奥娃担任机构校长。
经过三十五年的发展，该校已从单一院落扩展为六个常设教学点及三处野外住宿基地：1991年启用的利波瓦教学点位于布尔诺皮萨尔基区，主打低龄学童自然课程与传统手工艺；1999年加入的迷迭香园位于布尔诺容德罗夫区，紧邻森林与斯夫拉特卡河，建有自然建材生态屋与动物饲养区；2002年启用的里赫塔野外基地位于德拉汉高地克拉斯恩斯科村，依托一座历经十年修缮并于2026年9月重新开放的四百余年历史保护建筑，面向中学生开展喀斯特地貌野外考察与住宿营；2004年并入的小湖园森林学校位于布尔诺索别希采林区；2009年9月开放的卡门纳教学点位于布尔诺什蒂日采区，专注教师进修、高校教学与气候教育；2023年9月新设的“进取之心”教学点位于布尔诺市中心马萨里克大学社会科学学院内，另有弗拉彭卡、阿布索隆卡及2024年起在维索奇纳高地建设的波德米特罗夫三处营地。
四座认证示范自然花园
利普卡在布尔诺各教学点建有四座经认证的示范自然花园，全部采用无化学农药方式养护，并与捷克自然花园协会合作，为各地中小学与幼儿园提供校园自然花园规划咨询及“示范自然花园”徽章认证服务，同时参与编辑校园花园教学刊物。每年六月第二个周末的“开放花园周末”期间，四座花园均免费向公众开放，平日亦举办春季雪滴花节、秋季护虫日、果树修剪课、堆肥工作坊、种子与室内植物交换会以及生物炭烧制等活动。
其中，利波瓦花园配有多项可供视障人士使用的声音与触觉教具，包括木石钟架、树干木琴、老树干声音螺旋、木雕鸟类长廊、树木与动物浮雕方砖以及动物足迹踏板，向阳花坡与人工鸟箱吸引蝴蝶与鸟类栖息，高架苗床混种蔬菜、观赏花卉与药用植物。迷迭香园按永续农业原则设计，设有高架花床、阳光捕集区、移动种植箱、香草螺旋花坛、多种堆肥箱、太阳能果蔬干燥器以及中水与雨水回收系统，并在围栏区饲养家兔与家禽。小湖园森林花园贴近林地生境，除香草、蔬菜与宿根花境外，还建有生态水塘、根区芦苇污水处理池、自然演替保留区、本土混交灌木绿篱与雨水花园，由一条长约两公里、设八处物理与自然互动站点的森林科普步道串联周边古果树品种园与透明观察蜂箱。
河畔气候与疗愈花园及欧洲奖项
在卡门纳教学点，除充分利用院落每寸空间种植食用与蜜源植物的城市微花园外，布尔诺市政府于2015年将斯夫拉特卡河生物廊道内的一处地块租予利普卡作教学用途。园方借助欧盟基金于2017年秋季建成“河畔花园”，待市政无障碍金属步道桥竣工验收后，于2019年秋季正式投入教学与公众开放，每年四月至十月每周三下午免费接待访客。
河畔花园集自然花园、城市气候适应花园、疗愈花园与户外教学空间于一体：草坪采用马赛克分区轮流修剪，为昆虫保留觅食与越冬场所；园内布置混作轮作高架苗床、雨水滞留设施、自然园艺科普展板、天然材质触觉板与种子交换箱，无障碍金属步道桥兼具户外展览功能。2021年，河畔花园在第四届欧洲生态园艺奖评选中获“保健、护理与疗愈花园”类别评审团特别表彰奖（位列欧洲同类疗愈花园第二名）；2023年，利波瓦花园亦入围该奖项欧洲十五佳教育花园提名；2026年，该校推动的“校园气候花园”项目入围捷克能源全球环保奖决赛。
园艺疗法与移动花车
依托四座示范花园，利普卡面向特殊教育需求学童、老年人、长期病患、外伤康复者及高压职场人群开展园艺疗法课程，长期与洛托斯成瘾康复中心合作开展园艺康复实践，并于2017年主办首届“以自然疗愈、为自然疗愈”专业会议，参与推动捷克园艺疗法协会建设。小湖园与河畔花园均定期为老年群体与社会服务机构举办季节性园艺体验与培训。
针对卧床或行动受限、无法亲身进入户外花园的病患，利普卡自主研发并实地测试了“移动花车”——一种采用实木与金属制造、表面可擦洗消毒的推车式微型花园，配有可伸至病床上方的抽拉式操作台、便于在床头接触盆栽与泥土基质的下沉式托盘，以及收纳园艺工具与感官教具的储物格。移动花车向医疗与养老机构提供两种配置：基础版不含税售价三万捷克克朗（含税三万六千三百捷克克朗），包含操作培训、《花园如何疗愈》读本及基础播种工具包；扩展版不含税售价四万捷克克朗（含税四万八千四百捷克克朗），增加五项园艺疗法教具套组、活动指导手册及两至三小时的医护人员实操培训。此外，该校还制作了包含六组手工自然教具的“秋之触感”疗愈包，并为南摩拉维亚州公立社会与医疗机构免费提供疗愈花园上门规划咨询。
学校课程、高校教学与生态校园网络
根据利普卡2025年度报告统计，该校全年为幼儿园、中小学开展单日及住宿制环境教育课程一千一百场，接待学生超过两万一千五百人次，累计教学时长逾五千小时；课余时间开设三十三个下午兴趣社团（四百四十一名固定学员）、八个周末社团（三十八场活动、五百二十一人次）、二十三期住宿营（一百五十七天、六百四十六名儿童）、四十八期日间营（二百三十七天、九百七十二名儿童），并举办面向公众的节庆与工坊一百一十二场（八千四百六十八人次参与）。
在师资培训与高等教育方面，2025年该校举办教师专业进修活动九十一场，培训教师两千两百二十三人次（九百四十二学时）；同时与布尔诺马萨里克大学教育学院、布尔诺孟德尔大学及奥洛穆茨帕拉茨基大学理学院三所高校签约，讲授环境教育教学法、应用生态学、自然保护教育与园艺疗法等二十三门大学课程（六百一十学时、五百四十五名大学生），并承办南摩拉维亚州高校环境与生态学生论文竞赛。作为区域协调机构，利普卡还负责南摩拉维亚州的国际“生态学校”项目、全国“胡萝卜与小胡萝卜”学校生态教育网络（每年四次寄送《牛膝草》期刊与《小胡萝卜》通讯，中小学年费六百捷克克朗、幼儿园五百捷克克朗），并联合发起捷克户外教学平台。
Founding and Six Training Facilities
Lipka – School Facility for Environmental Education Brno (a public contributory organization of the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic) was founded after the Velvet Revolution by environmental educator Aleš Máchal and biologist Hana Korvasová. It officially opened on 27 October 1991 with the planting of a young oak tree in the garden of its first functionalist villa in the Pisárky district of Brno, starting with five staff members. To cover both non-governmental conservation work and public education, the two founders simultaneously established the civic association Rezekvítek and the school facility Lipka. Since 1 January 2026, Vladislava Kolářová has served as director of the institution.
Over 35 years, Lipka has grown into six permanent training facilities and three residential field bases: Lipová (opened 1991 in Brno-Pisárky), focusing on preschool and primary school programmes, traditional crafts, and natural materials; Rozmarýnek (joined 1999 in Brno-Jundrov), featuring a natural-building eco-house, animal enclosures, and a permaculture garden near the Svratka River; Rychta (opened 2002 in Krásensko in the Drahany Uplands), a 400-year-old heritage-listed rural homestead that reopened in September 2026 after a decade-long renovation to host secondary school field courses in the Moravian Karst; Jezírko (joined 2004 in the forests of Brno-Soběšice), dedicated to forest pedagogy; Kamenná (opened September 2009 in Brno-Štýřice), serving as an incubator for teacher education, university teaching, and climate programmes; and Podnikavá mysl (established September 2023 in central Brno at Masaryk University), promoting entrepreneurship education and the Enterprising School certification, complemented by the residential camps Vrápenka, Absolonka, and Podmitrov (under development since 2024 in the Vysočina region).
Four Certified Model Natural Gardens
Lipka maintains four certified model natural gardens across its Brno workplaces, all managed without synthetic chemicals, and partners with the Czech Natural Garden Association (“Přírodní zahrada”) to advise kindergartens and schools on designing and certifying school natural gardens while co-editing the school garden magazine “Školní zaHRAda”. All four gardens open free of charge every June during the Open Gardens Weekend and host seasonal celebrations, pruning and composting workshops, seed and houseplant swaps, and biochar demonstrations throughout the year.
The garden at Lipová is equipped with acoustic and tactile educational installations accessible to blind and visually impaired visitors, including a wood-and-stone belfry, a dendrophone, a large sound spiral built from old tree trunks, a wooden bird gallery, relief blocks of trees and wildlife, and animal-track stepping stones, alongside a sunny butterfly slope and raised vegetable and medicinal herb beds. The garden at Rozmarýnek follows permaculture design principles with raised beds, a sun trap, mobile planters, an herb spiral, diverse composters, a solar fruit dryer, greywater and rainwater harvesting systems, and enclosures for rabbits and poultry. Surrounded by woodland, the garden at Jezírko combines herb, vegetable, and perennial beds with a natural pond, a root-zone wastewater treatment plant, a natural succession zone, a mixed native hedgerow, a rain garden, a two-kilometer interactive forest trail with eight stations, and an adjacent heritage apple and pear orchard with glass observation beehives.
Riverside Climate and Therapy Garden and European Awards
At the Kamenná workplace, alongside a compact courtyard garden demonstrating intensive urban food and habitat planting, the City of Brno leased a municipal plot in the Svratka River biocorridor to Lipka in 2015 for educational use. Supported by European funds, Lipka completed the garden “Zahrada U Řeky” (“Garden by the River”) in autumn 2017 and opened it fully for teaching in autumn 2019 once the municipal barrier-free metal footbridge was completed; from April to October it opens free to the public every Wednesday afternoon.
Designed as a natural, climate-adaptive, therapeutic, and educational showcase in the city center, “Zahrada U Řeky” features a flower lawn mown in a rotational mosaic pattern to preserve insect habitats, companion-planted raised beds, rainwater retention systems, natural gardening information boards, tactile sensory panels, and a seed library, while the barrier-free footbridge doubles as an outdoor exhibition space. In 2021, “Zahrada U Řeky” won a special jury award (second place in Europe in the category “Gardens for Health, Care and Therapy”) at the 4th European Award for Ecological Gardening; in 2023, the Lipová garden was nominated among the top 15 European educational gardens in the same competition, and in 2026 Lipka’s “School Climate Gardens” initiative reached the finals of the E.ON Energy Globe award.
Garden Therapy and the Floramobil
Across its gardens, Lipka conducts garden therapy programmes for children, pupils with special educational needs, seniors, and adults recovering from burnout, injury, or long-term illness. The institution collaborates with the LOTOS addiction aftercare center, organized the first national conference “Therapy by Nature and for Nature” in 2017, and works closely with the Czech Garden Therapy Association, while providing free on-site consultations on therapeutic gardens to public social and healthcare facilities in the South Moravian Region.
To bring garden therapy directly to bedridden patients who cannot go outdoors, Lipka developed and field-tested the “Floramobil” — a mobile mini-garden cart built from solid wood and metal with a washable finish, a pull-out work surface that extends over a patient’s bed, a recessed tray for working with potted plants and soil substrates, and storage compartments for therapeutic tools. The Floramobil is available in two configurations: a basic version (30,000 CZK excluding VAT / 36,300 CZK including VAT, including technical training, the publication “How the Garden Heals”, and a basic planting set) and an extended version (40,000 CZK excluding VAT / 48,400 CZK including VAT, adding a five-activity therapeutic tool kit, a methodology manual, and a two-to-three-hour staff workshop), alongside Lipka’s six-set handcrafted “Touch of Autumn” sensory kit.
School Programmes, University Teaching, and Eco-School Networks
According to Lipka’s 2025 Annual Report, the organization delivered 1,100 one-day and residential environmental education programmes for kindergartens, primary, and secondary schools in 2025, attended by more than 21,500 pupils across over 5,000 hours of instruction. Afternoon and holiday activities encompassed 33 afternoon clubs (441 regular members), 8 weekend clubs (38 events with 521 participants), 23 residential camps (157 days for 646 children), 48 day camps (237 days for 972 children), and 112 public events attracting 8,468 visitors.
In teacher education and higher learning, Lipka held 91 professional development events for 2,223 educators (942 training hours) in 2025 and taught 23 university courses (610 teaching hours for 545 students) under contract with the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno, Mendel University in Brno, and the Faculty of Science at Palacký University in Olomouc, while administering the South Moravian Region student thesis competition on environment and sustainability. Lipka also serves as the South Moravian regional coordinator for the international Eco-Schools (“Ekoškola”) programme and the national “MRKEV” and “Mrkvička” environmental education networks (providing four annual mailings including the “Bedrník” journal and “Mrkvička” bulletin at 600 CZK/year for schools and 500 CZK/year for kindergartens), and co-founded the Czech outdoor learning platform “Učíme se venku”.
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