📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Summer agri/cultural volunteering project on the ecological farm in Jurovski Dol, Slovenia for FIVE VOLUNTEERS. At our farm, we combine youth work&arts&social engagement&farming. The main activities of the volunteering project will be divided between the care for the farm and regular activities of youth work of our NGO. While with us, you will deal with: traditional meadow orchard*prunes, apples, peers*lavender*vineyard*hazelnuts*walnuts*blackcurrant*elder trees*bees*hens*mini sheep*wildlife/habitats inventory and monitoring*creative writing*storytelling*photography*public library under the treetops*natural construction with earth. If you want a very good, practical and communicative introduction to organic farming, agroecology and eco-activism in global perspective, with practical introduction to fruit growing, herbs, wine making and basic gardening: you’re in the right place! Read more on: http://www.zelenacentrala.eu/blog/?p=2656
🏠 Accommodation on site
All 5 volunteers will live in the rural village of Jurovski Dol on the property of Zelena centrala in the independent 3-rooms flat. The flat has its own kitchen with the direct exit to the vast terrace, a bathroom with washing machine and different options for the arrangement of beds. During the summer also possible options of sleeping in caravans or tents. We provide 100% organic food for lunch, you take care for your breakfast&dinner (we supply 100% organic&local). Regular buses to Maribor depart 500m from the farm. Bikes are provided.
🎒 Leisure activities
* LOCAL SPRINGS OF GLOBAL CHANGE: regular excursions to see other "good practices" on organic farms in surroundings. * PRACTICAL&THEORETICAL 7-DAYS WORKSHOP OF CONSTRUCTION WITH EARTH. Lead by professional mentors, you will experience several contemporary construction techniques with earth and master yourself in earthen plastering. * WOODCRAFT: we will often do different experiments with wood, collaborating with professional mentors, who will share their secrets of woodcraft and design in order to create something useful and inspirational. * CREATIVE WRITING & PHOTOGRAPHY.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We're looking for proactive, engaged and curious persons who like to share and live in a community. Are you interested in concrete practices of sustainable living, preservation of nature and food production? The obstacles are only the additional incentives for your creativity, and you are not afraid of some physical work outdoors? We especially foster arts and creativity, so we are a good place for all who like storytelling, writing, journalism, photography, or visual arts. You should not be afraid of animals (like hens, bees, mini sheep), nature, team work, and of living in a rural place.
Deadline: Application deadline: 25/03/2023
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.