ESC: Simple living and natural building on permaculture farm in July.

Name: ESC: Simple living and natural building on permaculture farm in July.
Start: 2024-08-01
End: 2024-08-28
Location: Brakel, Belgium

Code: 40609 Copied

Belgium European Voluntary Service Environment Social work Culture European Voluntary Service Environment +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Do you want to make a (modest) contribution to a more regenerative world by inspiring people, rather than telling them what to do? Do you, meanwhile, want to taste simpler living close to nature, together with like-minded people? Then Boskanter, in the Flemish part of Belgium, might by for you. With our project, we hope to broaden the scope of alternatives, reduce fear and create hope and courage to consider the radical changes that need to be made in the world, rather than to criticize the current system and people trapped in it. The focus of this camp is cooking and building. From the 5th till the 11th of august we will help a local nature organisation that manages an old forest to build a bat-house with ceveral cob-techniques. We will cook an ecological meal for the 30 other participants in the work week there. In Boskanter and our partner farm Klokhuis, there will be more opportunities to practise natural building, next to garden and food-process work.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will share several rooms with mattresses and beds. There is one outdoor shower with sun-heated water and a wood-fired sauna that we heat from time to time. We use compost toilets. We will cook together with local products. The food will be as much as possible local, organic, seasonal, vegetarian with little use of dairy and home-processed. To visit projects in the surrounding, we will use bikes or walk and we will sleep in tents. You can arrive up to one week before the camp and stay up to one week after it, as long as you can be there the full four weeks.

🎒 Leisure activities

We will teach you the skills needed for the jobs we will do. You will have the opportunity to learn to harvest, make and use natural cob, scything, carving spoons, make simple bakes, bake sourdough bread and pizzas, ... Dirk will give you an introduction in the function of the rocket stove.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We want to bring together a group that wants to share a simple life close to nature and share worries about the destruction of the ecosystem. Don’t expect a fully operating self-sufficient system, though. We are small, we’re still part of this world and sharing this life with others limits our efficiency. You help with what we are currently doing. We accept no drugs or smoking. Alcohol is limited to special occasions. To apply, fill in this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScc8jI4lA9A8T1KwhZCNJ8P0B7EGiRXHZxNfa-PcHD33FEYrA/viewform
Deadline: Application deadline: 14/07/2024

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

BE40609

01/08/2024 → 28/08/2024

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Deadline: 14/07/2024

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Koningsweg 1, 9660 Brakel, Belgium

Belgium

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:02 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Dutch French