Learn new skills and enjoy moments of relaxation surrounded by nature in Ariège, France

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  Descrição

  Welcome to our ecovillage! Where nature thrives and a new community is growing...
  
  We're looking for long-term volunteers (several months) : please do not contact us for less than 2 months !
  
  🔸 Availability : from November !
  
  ⚠️ Please note: We are a non-smoking ecovillage, and we cannot accommodate cats or dogs to protect the local wildlife.
  
  🔹 Who we are
  Hi! I’m Florane, the contact person for this Workaway profile.
  We're a small but growing community of 7 permanent residents, including: Jean-Marc, Gaëtan & Claire, the Flos (Florane & Florian) and their two daughters, Gaïa (7) and Yin (2) ...plus a dozen happy chickens and an abundance of wild animals living peacefully around us.
  
  Our place is nestled in 45 hectares of lush forests and open meadows in southwest France. From our hill, you can spot the Pyrenees, and nearby there's a large pond full of frogs and ducks.
  
  🔻 The Project
  We purchased the land in spring 2023, and we’re building an ecovillage from the ground up. It’s an exciting time : everything is in motion!
  
  Our 3 Main Goals:
  🏘 Create a living area:
  Several families are joining! We're currently renovating houses and building 8 eco-friendly wooden homes (thanks to Gaëtan, our resident carpenter), for residents!
  🌱 Build a collective permaculture farm:
  In time, we’ll grow vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, algae, nuts, honey — and maybe produce cheese too. The dream is to become resilient and feed the ecovillage and local villages.
  🎓 Offer a space for learning and sharing !
  
  💧 Why we host volunteers
  We’re still at the very beginning, and every volunteer is a precious part of our story, like a drop of water helping a river come to life. We dream of re-creating the beautiful community spirit we’ve experienced during our own Workaway travels: people from around the world working, laughing, and learning together.
  
  We welcome volunteers who are motivated, enthusiastic, and eager to learn, and who genuinely enjoy being helpful.
  Personal responsibility is very important to us: we appreciate people who notice what needs to be done and take action without being asked, like washing your dishes, emptying the compost toilets before they overflow, or picking up a broom when the floor is messy.
  We also value emotional responsibility : being aware of your feelings and owning your experience. For us, it's important that everyone contributes not just with their hands, but also with a grounded and mindful presence.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Projetos artísticos

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Interesses

  

  Esportes de aventura

  

  Montanhas

  

  Camping

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Yoga/bem-estar

  

  Dança

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Caminhada

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Arquitetura

  

  Animais

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  História

  

  Cuidar de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Arte e design

  

  Livros

  

  Fotografia

  

  Idiomas

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Escrever

  

  Artes performáticas

  

  Desenho e pintura

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Astronomia

  

  Mochilão

  

  Sustentabilidade

  

  Autodesenvolvimento

  

  Fazenda
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Here you can:
  🍽 Share communal meals and laughter
  🏞 Swim in the nearby lake or river
  🌲 Meditate, dance, walk, or just be in the forest
  📚 Learn about ecovillages, sustainability, and our own journey
  🗣 Have deep (and silly!) conversations under the stars
  
  During our time off, we go to the lake to swim, we rockclimb, we hike... Or just enjoying free time in such an amazing nature!

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  We have hosted more than 100 workawayers :)
  And we'd like to change a little now : we'd like to host people for several months - at least more than 1 month each time, so that we can know each other better, and also for the volunteer who's staying to really feel at home.
  
  We are doing a lot of different things. We're improving the place to turn it into a place where people can live and feel good. This is very wide, and also you could have an amazing idea we didn't have!
  
  I know that's not very accurate. Please contact us and we'll see together how we can both help each other :)
  
  Your help would only be for private home/garden (for permanent residents of the ecovillage), not in any spaces related to paying event guests.
  
  For now, we don't need help in the garden as it... Doesn't exist yet !
  
  Daily tasks are basically:
  🍽 Cooking for the volunteers,
  🧹 Leaving a clean and tidy kitchen after meals,
  🪵 Bring some firewood in the house if it's cold,
  🚽 Empty your compost toilets...
  
  We’re looking for motivated, proactive, and emotionally mature volunteers. Please don’t wait for reminders; we value initiative and shared responsibility.
  
  👷🏼 We provide everything for safety : safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, earplugs, masks, old t-shirts for painting or dirty stuff...
  
  🎨 Our way is giving a lot of freedom for volunteers:
  After two weeks you can have a "creative project", for example going around the place and say : "hey, I have skills to draw something beautiful in your living room, are you okay to buy some paint for me?" or "oh, this tree is so beautiful, can I build some benches to put around it?". Someone made a furniture to hold all the spices jar in the kitchen, another draw the map of the whole place... To leave a small piece of you here 🥰

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Francês: Fluente
  Holandês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Iniciante

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  This place CAN be a good place if you want to practice French! But please note that we always prefer to include everyone in the conversation (if there's a non French speaker). So it depends a lot on who are the other volunteers!
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  Acomodação

  🛖 Accommodation :
  In the main house, we have 2 bedrooms with two single beds each, and another bedroom with two bunk beds. Compost toilets and shared bathroom with other volunteers.
  
  🥘 Food :
  Organic only. It's important for us ! We provide basic vegetarian food but we don't provide things like coffee, chocolate, peanut butter,... If you need something more, there's a small supermarket not so far, we can lend a bicycle.
  We are not vegan nor vegetarian, so we sometimes cook meat for ourselves : just saying, in case that's a problem for you.
  
  🪥 Ecological products :
  Please bring ecological soap, schampoo, toothpaste, deodorant... That's important for us also. We have a "less and less plastic waste" and "buy organic/local" policy here.
  We provide the washing machine liquid.

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  Algo mais...

  📶 There is no phone reception at the main house. WiFi is available for 4 hours/day during free time. Need more? A 5-minute walk gets you reception.
  
  🚉 How to get here
  From Toulouse: Train to Pamiers (1 hr) → Bus to Aigues-Vives (45 min)
  From Carcassonne: Train to Limoux (1 hr) → Bus to Chalabre (45 min)
  👍 Hitchhiking is common and many volunteers have made it here that way too!
  
  ❗ A few notes
  Phones addicts might struggle here : digital detox is part of the experience!
  Please copy-paste “ecovillage” in your first message title to show you’ve read our profile.
  We do not accept volunteer inquiries from people looking to become residents. If you’re interested in that path, I'm sure you'll find us!

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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