📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Renovated by volunteers from all over the world during international workcamps, La Maison des Bateleurs has been an international welcome centre for 20 years, witnessing rich intercultural encounters and exchanges. Located in the town of Montendre, a charming little village in the middle of pine trees, La Maison des Bateleurs is an ideal place to welcome you. It is animated by the daily presence of volunteers, and aims to be a place favouring openness and cultural and social mixing.
Sustainable development is a theme which is meant to be transversal. On a daily basis, with the volunteers we strive to put in place eco-citizen attitudes and to carry out actions that contribute to this (producing food, cooking meals, sorting waste, recycling, energy saving gestures, etc.) This is why, La Maison des Bateleurs has been working for several years to create an environment centre: a phytosanitary basin, dry toilets, compost, an organic garden, the use of surrounding natural resources, are just a few examples.
💼 What the programme involves
You will be in charge of the management and maintenance of the vegetable garden. You will be responsible for monitoring what has been sown and harvesting the spring fruits. It is also the time for summer sowing and cleaning. The work will mainly consist of the maintenance of the house vegetable garden (sowing, transplanting, hoeing, watering, harvesting) "in a square" so that you can appropriate a small area of land. You will then make preserves in order to maximize the harvest, to promote its consumption and to avoid wastage and losses. In addition, you will participate in the maintenance of the compost bins (using various processes: vermicompost, windrowing and then composting according to agro-ecological principles), the phytosanitary basin, the henhouse (harvesting eggs from the garden when preparing meals) and the bamboo grove.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In dormitories at the International Reception Centre, Maison des Bateleurs. Food will be provided and meals will be prepared, in turn, by you.
📍 About the location
Location: Montendre, Charente Maritime, 65 km from Bordeaux.
Leisure: Visits of the region will be organized collectively according to your wishes: visits of cities, ocean, museums, etc... Interactions with the Maison des Bateleurs reception centre will be regularly proposed: pizza evening, games evening, etc. You will also have the opportunity to exchange your cultural wealth with the inhabitants and associations of Montendre.