📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Come and join our cosmopolitan team who have made the Prureaux estate their home, coming from all around the globe to live as a collective. Our ambitious and exciting project is to restore and maintain the jewel at the heart of the estate: the Château des Prureaux! Join us on this adventure!
The environmental centre of our estate includes a farm, a vegetable garden, an orchard and a garden. Through these areas, we are experimenting with the principles of permaculture, with the aim of transforming the estate into a harmonious, productive and self-sufficient ecosystem, naturally regenerated and respectful of the nature and all its inhabitants. Together with you, we are preparing to build a greenhouse and collect rainwater to improve the management of the plantation.
💼 What the programme involves
This year, we'll be building a greenhouse using as many recycled materials as possible. Measuring around 2.5m high by 5m long and 2m wide, we'll be using our know-how and creativity to build this beautiful shelter in an environmentally-friendly way. We'll be recycling wood and barnum that couldn't withstand the wind, as well as other reusable materials! Sorting out the different materials, cutting, adapting and carrying will be the order of the day. Heavy loads and a fair amount of handling are to be expected.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be hosted on Le Créneau’s camping, in collective tents (6-8 persons per tent) separated by genders, with wooden floor and beds. Wi-fi is not available on site. Food will be provided and prepared in the kitchen of the castle by the participants in groups, with the support of the cooking staff.
📍 About the location
Montcombroux les Mines (03181), 45kms away from Moulins.
Leisure activities: Afternoons and weekends are planned collectively with the group leaders. If you want to discover the cities around, Vichy and Moulins are 45 kms away. If you\'d rather have a nice walk in nature, the surroundings are perfect for hiking, landscape seeing, discovering local markets, swimming, and enjoying sports activities and games.