📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
You'll be helping the surrounding communities with mowing fields and collecting hay. Sometimes, the fields are on a slope and are difficult to reach with machines. In nearby orchards, you'll be repairing fences and protecting trees from being gnawed away by sheep. You'll take care of rough grazing land, in order to conserve the habitats of endangered plants and animals.
You'll also be pulling out small tree saplings from the meadow in order to prevent them spreading in this particular habitat – therefore learning a lot about conservation in the process. For one week you'll be at the Domberg Hill at Freising, where you'll be working on paths to protect them from erosion and repairing sheep shelters and fences around the meadow. An absolute highlight for nature lovers is a 4-day trip to the Alps, where you can go hiking. Bring your hiking boots!
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in a large, cosy, self-catering house for nature lovers, 7km outside of Freising in an idyllic hillside location.
The group will prepare and cook meals together.
📍 About the location
You can reach Freising by bike along the river Isar. From there, the S-Bahn train travels to Munich. In Munich you have the opportunity to visit many museums, the English Garden or the famous Munich Hofbrauhaus. In the area surrounding Munich and in the Alps, you can go hiking and enjoy nature. Due to the close proximity to Hallertau, the largest hop-growing region in the world, there are many typical beer gardens.
⚠️ Requirements
The camp lasts 4 weeks. You must be able to ride a bike. Ankle-high hiking boots/wellingtons and warm, waterproof clothing are necessary both for working outside and going on hikes! There is an extra fee of 80€ for this camp.
ℹ️ Additional information
The camp lasts 4 weeks. You must be able to ride a bike. Ankle-high hiking boots/wellingtons and warm, waterproof clothing are necessary both for working outside and going on hikes! There is an extra fee of 80€ for this camp.