📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The community LTGJ (Lebenstraumgemeinschaft) was founded in 2001; today there are about 55 people of all ages living together in buildings of a historical farmstead, which belongs to a manor in a rural part of the city of Riesa in Saxony.
Many of the buildings have been restored and renovated in an ecological and monument protecting way. In addition to this a central wood heating was installed as well as a water recovering system, and ecological farming is realized in the two gardens and a field.
The community is a project, in which people of different generations have joined to explore community life as an experiment and to find out the ideal conditions for living together in sustainability and solidarity.
Get more information here: http://www.ltgj.de
💼 What the programme involves
- The shaping and maintenance of the territory resp. on the eco farmland
- Building a hill bed
- Building or planting a shelter belt around the eco farmland
- Re-Covering the gable end of a barn
It is possible to alternate between working groups.
🏠 Accommodation on site
A big dormitory with mattresses under the roof of a partly renovated historical barn with sanitary facilities, hot shower in the neighbor building. Please bring a warm sleeping bag and be prepared for cold nights (it can be down to 5°C in September).
Self-catering in a covered open air kitchen. organic vegetarian whole foods, no meat, vegetables mostly from the own garden.
📍 About the location
Jahnishausen is situated 4 km from the town Riesa in Saxony, close to the river Elbe.
Location in natural reserve and floodplain forest.
⚠️ Requirements
Readiness to do up to 6 hours of physical work per day and the desire to become involved in the community.
ℹ️ Additional information
Possibilities for self-organized excursions to Dresden and Leipzig, bicycles can be borrowed. Sauna, labyrinth to meditate and campfire space of the community can be shared. The members of the camp are invited to participate in community events such as meditations, cinema evenings, singing etc.