Learn and create in our permaculture community in wild, beautiful South Bulgaria

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  Description

  Welcome to our homestead! We are part of the creation of the first ecovillage in Bulgaria, and with our neighbours have created an educational NGO for our ecology work, regenerating the landscape here and creating a model of off-grid living and reuse of ex-agricultural land.
  
  Our long term vision is creating, in partnership with our neighbours, a vibrant community for creation, learning and experimentation, with a series of permaculture edible forest gardens to cover this land in lush, beautiful, tasty abundance!
  
  We are Sophie and Krasi, an English Bulgarian couple who are passionate about living in harmony with nature and building our community here and connecting to like minded people across the world.
  
  On our homestead we live simply in a small cob house we built, with a little lake, vegetable garden, orchard with huge diversity of old kinds of fruit trees, swales, bees and a lot of beautiful open sky over us. We are 100% off-grid and have solar panels for electricity, a ram pump for water, compost toilet, solar shower outside and a handmade rocket stove. We are currently planting a large swale system with mixed forest and fruit trees, propagating a wide range of plants in our nursery, grafting fruit trees, getting the gardens ready for seasonal vegetables, preparing our bees and new hives. We are also building an extension on the side of our house this year, bigger nursery greenhouses and repair of our existing cob cottage. We have a community off grid water system that we've made that we are always improving. Also many community projects such as shared food growing, forestation and creation.
  
  We are happy to share our experiences of living this way and our love for this land. We have completed our Permaculture Design Certification and are implementing our design part by part and running permaculture courses here. I am a permaculture teacher and facilitator, and run an online permaculture network.
  We also have knowledge in Natural beekeeping, electronics and alternative technology, woodworking, clothes making, herbal medicine, holistic nutrition and more.
  
  Accommodation in the warmer seasons is in tents or there is space for your camper van. We have an outdoor compost toilet, and enclosed outdoor shower.
  Food is healthy vegetarian/ vegan food, a lot raw in the summer and from our own garden. We eat together twice a day, mid morning and mid afternoon. We don't eat meat/fish or smoke and we ask you to respect this while you are with us.
  
  We have mobile reception and quite limited internet. We are 20km from the nearest town, but can arrange to pick you up in our car.
  
  We do a lot of communal activities with our neighbours, other families with similar dreams- helping each other with building projects, a shared garden on a river island, yoga, dancing, singing and celebrating! Nearby we have small areas of forest, a river for swimming and big lake. Its possible to also go on trips to ancient historical sites, the sea, national park, mountains... Bulgaria has a very rich, diverse and beautiful nature.
  
  We look forward to meeting dedicated, open minded volunteers, who share our passion for caring for nature and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Its best if you can come from one week to a month, to have enough time to get to know the place, really be useful and learn something for yourselves.
  
  The daily hours depend on the weather and the tasks, ..In the summer we start very early and rest in the hot time then continue in the late afternoon. With days off for resting and exploring!
  
  We are looking for motivated, energetic, focused volunteers to help us with the management of our young forest. Be ready to work in all weather, have an adventure and learn about permaculture and off-grid living!!

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  We can offer a lot of knowledge about permaculture, plants, herbs, beekeeping, crafts, sewing, healthy vegetarian cooking, fermenting, preserving etc.
  We can share our community life, where we have time to craft, sing and dance together, enjoy Bulgarian Paneurythmia, folk music and cuisine. There are many beautiful places around us that we can share - forests, lakes, ancient Tracian sacred sites.
  We really love sharing skills and stories with all our visitors :-)

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  Aide

  We need help with Permaculture gardening, forest maintenance, building projects and water infrastructure projects.
  Its important to have an active interest in an alternative way of life, earth care, people care, fair share and be open and willing to learn.
  We prefer people who are independent and reliable and can work alone or in groups.
  If you have experience with gardening, building, carpentry, plumbing, sewing, painting then great. If not you can learn!

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Bulgarian: Courant
  Anglais: Courant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We are happy to teach some Bulgarian to our visitors!
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  Hébergement

  Accommodation in the warmer seasons is in tents or there is space for your camper van. We can provide a tent, camping mattress and bedding.
  We have an outdoor compost toilet, and enclosed outdoor shower.
  Food is healthy vegetarian/ vegan food, a lot raw in the summer and from our own garden. We eat together twice a day, mid morning and mid afternoon. We don't eat meat/fish or smoke and we ask you to respect this while you are with us.

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  Autres infos...

  We have been hosting volunteers, courses and youth groups here for many years and have many positive experiences and new friends from these exchanges. We really value mutual respect and openness and hope that everyone will leave with new ideas and inspirations from our time together.
  Bulgaria is a really beautiful country with amazing nature - mountains, forests, sea coast and a rich folk culture and history. There is so much to experience and enjoy here.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have plenty of space for house vehicles on our land and welcome them. We are totally off grid so we dont have an electricity or gas hookup for vans, you would need your own power.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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