📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The local project partners long-term aim is to establish a vegan-organic permaculture mountain farm in order to educate people on how to have a highly sustainable lifestyle in a mountain region. The partner is a family of home-schoolers: they feel that this is the best way to respect childrens rights and to establish human connections (better friendships/relationships lead to less aggressiveness and consumerism). Their house outside the village is over 150 years old as well as the linden tree next to it, which is the perfect place to relax.The local partner will cook seasonal, vegan-organic, fair trade, wholefood meals or will give instructions or recipes to cook on your own. The eating plan requires time for preparation.
💼 What the programme involves
You will destroy redundant concrete stone walls in nature, make hay for cultivating next years potats following a specific procedure (and at some parts of the land it is also to preserve a calcareous grassland respectively to fight without poison against the not-aloud, native creeping thistle), you will plant fruit trees and bushes, harvest berries and preserve them. You might also help weeding the field and transporting firewood to the barn (and for the ones, who love machines: cutting wood). Work time outside will be early in the morning and in the late afternoon with a long lunch break depending on the weather ( when it is less hot and when Werner is around. This means: free time during the day and you might work more on the weekend and less during weekdays.
🏠 Accommodation on site
There are two - three rooms for volunteers - one with a door (also possible: sleeping outside on the mulch/under the linden tree). Things to take with you are a sleeping bag and a comfortable camping mattress. As the toilets and shower are about to be renovated, there will probably be a compost toilet and a shower (with warm water) in the house or outside. There is limited access to washing clothes: the local partner uses only ecological soap since the house is not connected to a wastewater treatment plant. There is only 1 computer with internet access for all.
ℹ️ Additional information
SCI Switzerland believes in the values of sustainability and climate justice. For this reason we support projects like this where participants are offered an opportunity of understanding what impact meat agriculture has on the environment and how alternative solutions can be found. Homeschooling is not the reason, why SCI supports this project.