📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Between the Bourgogne, Beaujolais and Jura regions, come to discover a natural wooded area hosting an outstanding wildlife!
The municipality of Crottet, concerned with maintaining its environmental heritage while enhancing its value, wishes to create a discovery trail within a preserved wetland where the observation of nature will allow the hikers to appreciate the diversified richness of the site. Thanks to your collective work during this international workcamp, you'll help making this space accessible while clearing the dense vegetation that expands there for many years.
💼 What the programme involves
For this first workcamp organized in this locality, you'll participate to clear a plot of one hectare.
With the help of the locals, you'll skid dead wood, clear the trees blocking the accesses and suppress the brambles. The local flora will have to be preserved as much as possible.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in tents on a municipal land, close to the center of the village. Don't forget to bring your sleeping bag and mat. The kitchen, toilets, showers and the collective living space will be installed near the campsite. A communal room will be at your disposal to shelter in case of bad weather.
You will participate in the preparation of the meals by turns. We'll favor the local products and the short supply circuits. Tastings of local specialties may also be organized with local producers.
📍 About the location
The municipality of Crottet (1700 inhabitants) is located in the south of Bresse area, in the Ain County, at the border between the Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne regions, two regions famous for their gastronomy and their wine-making. It is situated close to road and motorway networks, allowing to reach the cities of Macon in 20 minutes, and Lyon in one hour.
Bordered by the Saône River, the municipality offers various natural areas from which depart several trails allowing to discover a peaceful and unspoiled region.
You will participate to the Intervillage Games and to the Cormoranche Lake celebrations, punctuated by several animations and fireworks. At the leisure base, you'll have access to swimming, laser-game, bike riding, hiking, fishing, canoe...
⚠️ Requirements
Bring along a pair of working gloves, sturdy shoes and clothes that can get dirty. As the nights can be cool, take a warm sleeping bag and mat with you. Some convivial times will be organized! If you want to share a bit of your culture with the others, bring a piece of your country in your backpack (cooking recipes, traditional tales, unusual objects…). Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Mâcon-Ville Train station
Closest airport:
Lyon or Paris