📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Verbindungskultur e.V. is a place to develop learning experiences which foster a profound and authentic connection to nature, where sustainable ways of life
are explored and practiced, and which promote peaceful and creative ways of being together - to create social change for the benefit of all beings.
With this work camp, the biodiversity in the community garden at the place of the association Verbindungskultur e.V. close to Lake Constance is now to be specifically promoted. To this end, we would like to enrich the existing permaculture garden with additional habitats for rare and/or specially adapted animal and plant species - e.g. for wild bees, bumblebees and other insects, ground-nesting birds, amphibians reptiles, worms and beetles, small mammals, ...
💼 What the programme involves
With our work, we will focus on species protection and the construction of so-called nature modules, i.e. small microhabitats that can increase and stabilize the biodiversity of a site, in this case of the home our association. These nature modules include for example: dry stone walls, stone piles, stone pyramids, dead wood piles, wood cellars, sandariums, small water puddles, wildflowers, and many more. These increasingly rare habitats attract endangered species that can find a habitat here again. Furthermore, we want to improve the infrastructure of our seminar site, e.g. by building stairs and paths, possibly also handicapped access. The tasks will mainly be accomplished with physical labor, but there will also be theoretical input on the nature garden idea.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In own tents (please bring your own tent, your sleeping mat and sleeping bag), if needed indoor-facilities are possible. There is an outdoor kitchen, compost toilets, solar shower, and a cozy heated yurt as a community space (built by previous SCI volunteers).
We will cook together as a group - in our kitchen tent and sometimes, if you are interested, on the campfire. We will prepare mainly plant-based delicacies from as much as possible regional-seasonal ingredients , which will nourish body and soul after work :-)
📍 About the location
Our community garden is located a couple of kilometers north of Lake Constance, 40 km from the city of Constance, just outside the village of Lellwangen, Deggenhausertal. There we are in the midst of lush meadows and pastures, surrounded by mixed beech-spruce forest and lively little streams, and on a clear day we can enjoy a wonderful view of the lake and the Alps.
⚠️ Requirements
Openness to and interest in ecological gardening; willingness to do physical work and teamwork; joy in being with others; desire to be outdoors with simple infrastructure (tents, composting toilets, solar shower).
ℹ️ Additional information
The workcamp is about 10 days long and the landscape around is really beautiful. There are many recreational opportunities: Hikes through the hilly landscape in the vicinity; Ravensburg (historic old town with several towers of the old city fortifications); Mainau Island; Pile Dwelling Museum Unteruhldingen; Salem Castle; Salem Monkey Mountain; Constance with its historic old town; swimming opportunities in the area: Schlosssee Salem, Ilmensee, Lake Constance. If you want to stay longer in this region, you have the possibility to make several trips to the sights around Lake Constance, to join a boat trip or a sailing trip, or to go for a bike tour (there are several places where you can rent a bike).
Please be advised that due to the corona pandemic measures, there may be changes.