Organic Farm Warriors CES/SVE

Name: Organic Farm Warriors CES/SVE
Start: 2020-03-01
End: 2021-02-15
Location: Slovenia

Code: f3d5c1e3-fa32-11e9-abc3-00505603f1ab Copied

Slovenia Farming Environment European Voluntary Service Farming Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The association is a non-government non-profit organization with the aim to assist and help to evolve in all kinds on farm projects which include everything from day-to-day on a farm in the frame of locally sustainable projects like CSA (Community supported agriculture), a co-op project and direct marketing.

💼 What the programme involves

Are you interested to learn about local sustainability, self-sufficiency and organic farming in practice and theory? Do you like to spend your days doing meaningful work supporting interesting and innovative ideas and local projects in the field of organic farming? Then be a part of the "Drustvo EkoPot"'s team !

You gain insight into the running of a very active farm with more than 80% self-sufficiency, it is certified organic and biodynamic with vegetable (more than 60 different vegetable varieties), fruit (apples, berries, nut-fruits) and field crop production (spelt, einkorn, emmer, kamut, millet, buckwheat, maize, etc.), processing of more than 100 products (baking bread, processed fruits into jams, spreads or canned vegetables for the winter, processing and packaging of flour, cereals, porridge, etc.) and marketing on a 12 ha family run farm.

Apart from the farm experience this association offer a wide variety of different projects for young people e.g. sustainable building, media work, seed production, excursions, work-shops ... The target groups are all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds (cultural and social-economic) with a clear focus in gaining knowledge of a sustainable daily life, which promotes the local environment and development. Their aim is to introduce our target groups to sustainable life skills and inter-cultural exchange through the help of the EVS.

Through the year they organize more than 11 on farm events: work-shops and seminars (on organic farming, special crops, effective modes of action in organic farming like the use of mulch); handcraft workshops (working with wood, the use of natural building materials, the set up of a "low-cost" greenhouse, how to maintain green hedges where animals and insect can have their living space, prunning of fruit trees, the set up and maintainance of a herb garden, a produce seeds myself, etc.), an oppen gate day of the farm and we host students, wwofers (Willing Workers on Organic Farms), scouts in a Job-shadowing project and other volunteers through the year.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The farm has a main house with a community kitchen and a temporary living room. The main house has an house extension with two rooms and a bathroom for up to four volunteers, to enable some privacy and the separation from the farm. It can be best described as a hostel like accommodation. In 2018 we plan to build a outside living space (a cob oven for pizza and cooking outside) where time after work can be spent with the members of the whole farm.

Appliancess which are needed (kitchen, washing machine, dryer, vaccum cleener, etc.) are located in the main house and can be used by everyone. The activities are structured through the week and depend a lot on the seasonal and climate conditions. A week is structured in five days of in practice farm experience and organizational and managing activities. The afternoons and weekends are always free for personal activities. Due to the fact that the accommodation is on the farm there is no need for daily traveling and consequently this enables less stress and more free time in the daily routine (which accounts on average for seven hours of volunteering a day). From Monday to Friday the day starts at 8 a.m.. At 12 a.m. there is a small lunch until 1 p.m. At 4 p.m. there is a big lunch with all the people of the farm.

The farm and the NGO are based in a village named Jarenina in the hilly north-west region of Slovenia, it has 1200 inhabitants. The village has a small all purpose shop, a post office, a church, a school and a kindergarden. The farm is located in the village center so everything is on reach of 500 m. The village itself is connected by public transportation (busses at least 4 times a day) to Maribor, which is the second biggest city of Slovenia (15 km away). Maribor is a vibrant city (97.000 inhabitants) with a hospital, theaters, music festivals in the summer (Lent festival), cinemas and enables to be connected by bus or train to all parts of Slovenia and neighboring countries.

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