Out into the countryside! - Building activities on the Adventure and Culture farm

Germany Teenagers Construction Manual work Renovation Teenagers Construction +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education

💼 What the programme involves

Since 2019, a handful of people have been building the Blankenhorn Adventure Culture Farm (hoblaho) on the edge of the Mecklenburg Lake District. A place with cultural, educational, agricultural and holiday accommodation offers is being created. During your workcamp you will support the farm in developing this alternative community concept between people, nature and animals. Among other things, the construction of a wind shelter in Sandhagen, a village with 150 inhabitants, and the interior work of a creative workshop on the farm are planned. After completion, pottery and painting activities for young and old will be offered there all year round. If the creative workshop project cannot be completed according to plan, several smaller projects are in the pipeline: Building fences and paths for the horses, goats and alpacas, creating a horse trail with various obstacles, improving and beautifying the archery range, converting a transport container into a Tiny House and repairing stables or buildings/rooms. The involved parties of the Adventure Culture Farm are happy about everyone who not only helps them with the practical work, but also creatively shapes this place and joyfully contributes his/her skills. Information about the Blankenhorn Adventure Culture Farm can be found at www.hoblaho.com (unfortunately only in German).

🏠 Accommodation on site

Meals: The group will prepare and cook meals together. Money is made available for this purpose. Accommodation: You live and work on the Blankenhorn farm, an adventure and culture farm. In the associated guesthouse, you will stay in double rooms and have access to a kitchen, a large dining room and a huge terrace to eat together.

📍 About the location

In your free time, you can go to the Baltic Sea or Berlin for a long weekend. Or you can simply enjoy the great activities on the farm and in the surrounding area. There is a campfire site, volleyball net and archery range on the farm, or you can take care of the animals, milk goats and make cheese. You can also make trips by or to the narrow-gauge railway in the neighbouring village.