📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Restoring Ecosystems is a 6-month volunteer project where 3 European volunteers live and work together in a rural area of Murcia, located in the Southeast of Spain. It takes place in La Junquera, an organic farm and village, which is being brought back to life and transformed into a regenerative hotspot in the area. During the development of the project, the volunteers will share the experience of living on a farm focused on the ecological restoration of degraded lands. At the same time that they develops their own projects, they can help La Junquera reach the goal of being an inspiration for the farms of the region, helping to revitalize the town and the locals of the community, generating economic activity and restoring degraded natural areas. They can get to know the different projects that coexist on the farm and the people who develop them as “Regeneration Academy” which trains international students in regenerative farming or "La del Terreno", traditional wine making.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation consists of several bioclimatic structures on the farm itself. The main accommodation is a straw bale house, one large bedroom that can sleep up to 8 people. The closest town is Caravaca, which has all the necessary services (banks, pharmacy, hospital, supermarkets, restaurants, cafeterias, etc). It has a bus station that connects it with Murcia and Andalusia. Nearby is also the town of Topares, already in Andalusia. Travel reimbursement, tutoring, pocket money, organic food produced on the far, food subsidy and local transportation are provided by the farm.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will be trained in new approaches and techniques for restoring agricultural land and natural ecosystems. They will improve the livelihoods of farmers, landowners, and local communities around the camps. They will learn how to increase the organic matter, carbon content and water retention capacity of the soil to stimulate large scale carbon sequestration; reforestation of natural areas and hedges of fields with native trees and bushes; mantaining artificial ponds to harvest rainwater, replenish aquifers and support local wildlife...
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: A committed, active, flexible person is required, with the capacity to adapt and capable of working in a team. It is important that you like manual work, direct contact and intimate connection with nature.
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.