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 Castle of La Jonchere, using traditional masonry techniques, in Saint-Cyr-en-Val, a small town between nature and city, located south of the Metropolis of Orleans, in the Loire Valley. The Castle of La Jonchere and its outbuildings, owned by the municipality, hosts a music school, a library, exhibitions and meeting rooms. It also has a shared vegetable garden in its domain. You will take part in the renovation of the surrounding wall of the park: after having cleared the Virginia creepers growing on the wall, your work will consist in releasing the stone facade from concrete seals before embellishing it according to traditional techniques respectful of the history of the building - staking, lime repointing, replacement of defective stones. During the workcamp, you will have the opportunity to meet the gardeners and winemakers whose vines grow near the surrounding wall. This workcamp is part of a project of three workcamps organized by the Metropolis of Orleans with its member municipalities of Orleans, Saint Cyr en Val and Saint-Jean de Braye and the CRIJ Centre-Val de Loire 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 Orleans workcamps during the welcome drinks, the intercultural day and the itinerant inauguration of the work carried out on the three workcamps.