📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our team of 15 people from all over the world live collectively on the domain of les Prureaux. We all carry out an ambitious project there: to renovate and maintain its main building: a centuries-old castle. Come join the adventure! Our environmental pole is made of a farm, a vegetable garden, an orchard and a garden. We experiment with the principles of permaculture, to make the area a harmonious, productive ecosystem, aiming for autonomy, naturally regenerated and respectful of nature and all its inhabitants.
💼 What the programme involves
Like the whole site, the garden and the vegetable garden are constantly evolving. On the program this year:
1) Protect and delimit
The garden and the vegetable garden must be protected from external intrusions (fauna, flora, bad weather). You will build barriers and low walls to delimit the space using different materials: dry branches and roots, dry stones, small fruit trees. And according to ancestral techniques: plessing, braiding, piling, etc.
2) Enrich
You will participate in enriching the natural fertilizer via the "lasagna" these are alternating stacks of layers matter, which have a "booster" effect on soil from technique: of organic the crops.
3) Develop
Le Créneau wishes to develop its natural spaces and integrate them into the daily life of its
inhabitants: you will repair the garden hut, and make it a place of storage but also of gathering and
discussion for school visits, by arranging a space in reused materials: pallets, etc.
4) Improve
You will help us optimize water management by maintaining our irrigation basin:
• Waterproofing
• Delimitation
• layout
🏠 Accommodation on site
We get a camping area. For teenagers espacially, the group will sleep in tents where girls and boys are separated. We have outdoor showers as well as dry toilets. Food will be prepared by the volunteers themselves in turns. You will create your own menus and “kitchen teams”.They will be taken under a big tent outside or, in case of bad weather, inside in the dining room of the castle. We provide a fully equipped kitchen and activity rooms.
📍 About the location
Afternoon and weekends are collectively planned with the whole group. If you like the city, Vichy and Moulins are located about 40 kms away. If you’re more the countryside type, do not hesitate to explore, on foot or by bike, the landscapes, the heritage, local handcrafts, to swim or enjoy sports, leisure activities or chilling out.