📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
De Biopluktuin is a CSA(Community Supported Agriculture) project and is united in co-operative with other organizations such as a children’s petting farm and an urban forest. The organic farm is located in the coastal city of Oostende, in the West of Flanders. De Biopluktuin aims to have a sustainable collaboration with the customers who come to harvest the fruits and vegetables. Also unemployed persons and students work on the farm to spend their leisure time in a meaningful way.
💼 What the programme involves
The main tasks will be helping on the organic farm. The volunteers will be helping with planting, weeding, sowing, the general maintenance of the fields and some harvesting.
During the camp some volunteers can work on a small construction project.
There might be some other tasks that will include the maintenance of the forest, helping with the animation on children’s camps in the children’s petting farm and taking care of the animals.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will sleep in a large farmhouse in shared rooms. Beds will be provided, but volunteers are supposed to bring their own sleeping bags. Volunteers will receive food ingredients and will be in charge of cooking and cleaning.
📍 About the location
Oostende
⚠️ Requirements
We expect to do sometimes heavy work on the field. Weather can be unpredictable, bring suitable waterproof clothing for outdoor farm work and work shoes. Basic biking skills are necessary because we’ll cycle to the different working places.