AROUND THE CASTLE IN LOIRE VALLEY

Take part in a project to renovate the surrounding wall of the collective vegetable garden in the park of the Château de la Jonchère, using traditional masonry techniques, in Saint-Cyr-en-Val, a small town between nature and city, located in the south of the Metropolis of Orleans, in the Loire Valley. The Jonchère Castle and its outbuildings, owned by the commune, have now a music school, a library, exhibition and meeting rooms. It also has a shared vegetable garden in its grounds. You will take part in the renovation of the surrounding wall of the park: after having cleared the Virginia creeper growing on the wall, your work will consist in removing the concrete of the stone facade and then highlighting it according to traditional building techniques, staking, lime repointing, replacement of defective stones. During the workcamp, you will have the opportunity to meet the volunteer gardeners and wine-growers amateurs who take care of vines growing near the wall. This workcamp is part of a project of three workcamps organized by the Metropolis of Orléans with its member municipalities (Orléans, Saint-Cyr-en-Val, Saint-Jean de Braye) and the CRIJ Centre-Val de Loire (regional information center for youths) to help people discover the Loire region and its heritage and cultural wealth. You will have the opportunity to meet and exchange with the volunteers of the Saint-Jean-de-Braye and Orléans workcamps during the welcome drink, the intercultural day and the itinerant inauguration of the work carried out on the three workcamps.