📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For nature lovers, you will discover a very beautiful environment: hedgerows, marshes, seaside, heaths…It is the third time that Concordia organizes an international workcamp with the Cotentin and the Bessin Marshland Regional Nature Park. Located in the south of the Cotentin’s peninsula, this wide surface of marshland polders contains unique fauna and flora. The park’s house proposes touristic information, exhibitions and animation in the aim of discovering natural and architectural heritage. Around this place, you will have the opportunity to hike, sail boats, discover the local and environmental heritage and enjoy animations. This workcamp is a part of a long-term project. This is an old farm built with homemade mud bricks owned by the Manche region. This place is now used for the trainings organized by the Regional Nature Park about homemade mud bricks building.
💼 What the programme involves
You will be supervised by two leaders. Continuing on from last year's restoration, you will take part in the restoration of the farm frontage, and will learn old masonry techniques: clear it off undergrowth, masonry work, repair the joints of the bricks by using traditional techniques (e.g. lime mortar).
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in a collective accommodation under tents in a field with the toilets and bathroom in a building. The meals will be taken in the building. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes with good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
60km south of Cherbourg and 20 Km north of Saint-Lo. For more information about the park: www.parc-cotentin-bessin.fr
⚠️ Requirements
You may work in a scaffolding, be sure to not have vertigo in order to participate to the camp.
You will work on small scaffolding; you should therefore be to be able to work at height.
Please bring gardening gloves, good shoes and working clothes. As the nights can be quite cold, remember also to bring warm clothes. Don’t forget to bring a sleeping-mat, a warm sleeping bag (and a tent if you own one!). Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Carentan train station.
Closest airport:
Paris