📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Reconstructing the old village oven in a mountain hamlet so that soon, the inhabitants can get together around baking bread ..., it's a bit of a dream, isn't it? So join us in Maubourg in the south of the Alps, in the town of Dévoluy, to carry out this daring venture!
From 2017 to 2019, we worked with the international workcamps on the Mère Eglise site, in partnership with the association of the same name which runs the music festival in Dévoluy. Last year, the partnership with the municipality focused on restoring the banal oven located in the hamlet of Maubourg.
💼 What the programme involves
The village oven is located in the heart of the hamlet, and it is under the moved gazes of the inhabitants that we worked to consolidate the weakened walls of this modest building in 2020, after it was freed from the brambles, nettles and shrubs that invaded it. In 2021, we plan to continue consolidation and reconstruction work with the help of a specialized technical leader and under the guidance of a heritage architect. This will include rebuilding the masonry lintel that surmounts the front door, and supporting the masonry with formwork. At the same time, we will make the header of the fireplace in order to properly surround the keystone to the right of the fireplace.
🏠 Accommodation on site
We will sleep under tents on the « Les Auches » camping in Saint Etienne in Dévoluy, situated in the heart of the Dévoluy massif. On the campsite, we’ll have a peaceful stay in a mountainous setting with exceptional greenery. We’ll have accès to amenities like sanitary facilities, a barbecue, a bocce ball court, and WIFI at times. We will install a large kitchen tent in order to make our meals. We’ll take turns cooking, that way we’ll be able to taste a number of different specialties ! Here, we pay attention to what we eat, and to reduce our impact on the planet, we try to eat a maximum of local products and we limit eating meat to twice a week. Community life will be organised together: organization of menus, grocery shopping, activites, etc.
📍 About the location
we will be in an exceptional location to discover the joys of hiking among the mountains, its rivers, its lakes, the farmers markets, and festive events organized in the surrounding villages (depending on programming). As a group, we’ll decide the activites and outings that we will want to set up (subject to distance).