📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Aim of the organization: One of the main goals of Aarde-Werk de Stegge is to create an optimum production surplus , while maintaining a feasible balance between producing and consuming in closed cycles. This in order to inspire all people who stay on the farm for a shorter or longer period, to live and work in a fulfilling way. To volunteers this means that they are invited to develop a lifestyle with sustainable techniques, with almost no harm to nature.
Aim of the ESC participation:
- To provide a lasting learning experience to young people from other European countries , in the process of adapting to a sustainable way of living for themselves
- Offering an opportunity to contribute to a sustainable designed farmlife on a daily basis
- Offering a learning-by-doing opportunity by a 6-10 months living and working together on the farm.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accomodated in our Stroyurt, a truly unique straw bales structure that accommodates up to 2 ESC -volunteers.
🎒 Leisure activities
Teaching and learning on the farm
Gea and the team at farm ‘De Stegge’ offer a range of training opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds, in line with the overall values and ethics of the Aarde-Werk de Stegge foundation: internships, volunteering, courses, farm tours and job shadowing are offered.
At the farm ‘De Stegge’ everything is based on sustainable living and working:
- In the garden we grow organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and nuts, using permaculture principles.
- In the food forest you learn how to grow food in the 7 layers distinguished in permaculture.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We look for a multi-tasker with social skills;
• eager to learn;
• curious to understand natural processes in Nature;
• positive towards living outdoors and permaculture
Activities:
• helping out with wintermaintenance outside (pruning, mowing, preparing soils , rearranging the greenhouse)
• designing inspiring programs for our supporters of the farm, partly online, inside and outside at the farm.
• editing one or two volumes of our magazine (in pdf and in paper) with general information about the farm-in-progress
• design a campaign for the promotion of our farm
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/08/2022
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.