📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Do you wish to have a collective and interculturally intense experience? Do you love the countryside and the outdoor life? If yes, this workcamp is for you! Le Créneau, an association of popular education, waits for you in the Castle of Prureaux, the welcome international welcome center in the heart of the bourbon countryside. You will share the everyday and workcamp lives with people from all over the world and from different social backgrounds, coming to offer you a week, a month, or a whole year of their time and energy because the more people there are, the further we will go!
💼 What the programme involves
To continue the previous workcamp's work, you will work on the « Pedagogical farm ». The goal is to allow vehicles to access the farm, and to facilitate the movement and transfer of animals. Therefore, you will clean up the park's entrance: build a wooden entrance gate and restore two of the old door's pillars, made out of cut-stone. For starters, you will have to stabalize the entrance by excavating the top soil stetching 15 centimeters long, in order to make a geotextile that will cover the gravel where the rain water drains. The mud that you recover will be used to build mounds of permaculture in the vegetable garden. Secondly, you will build a wooden gate, where the process will teach you the techniques of tracing blueprints and traditional assembly. Finally, the restoration of the two pillars in the entrance will allow you to learn traditional masonry. The leveling stones and their rejointment, will be completed with lime mortar.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents with access to outdoor sanitary blocks and dry toilets. An equiped kitchen is situated in the main building. The food is provided and the meals will be prepared by rotating groups of volunteers.
📍 About the location
Montcombroux-les-Mines (Allier), 45 km from Vichy.
This workcamp will allow you to meet younsters from France and all over the world and to discover the rural way of life of this region. You will visit the nearest cities: Moulins and Vichy and be able to go to the swimming pool.
ℹ️ Additional information
During summer, the center can only welcome up to 50 people