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

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  Description

  🟠 Soonest availabilities:
  • Anytime from now for at least one month !
  • We also organize "intense weeks" :
  🔹 JULY : from 20th til 27th of July
  🔸 AUGUST : from 3rd til 10th of August.
  
  🟢 Mondays or Tuesdays work out best for us in terms of arrival days.
  🟣 Long-term volunteers (several months) very welcome!
  🚭 The ecovillage is a non-smoker area and we don't welcome cats or dogs (not to bother wildlife already thriving here).
  
  🔵 Who are we :
  I am Florane, taking care of this workaway profile.
  7 permanent residents are living here for now : Jean-Marc, Gaëtan & Claire, the Flos (Florane and Florian) and their daughters Gaïa (6) and Yin (2). Little by little some other people or families are settling!
  A dozen chickens also live here, as well as all the wildlife thriving around!
  
  🔴 The project :
  The place was bought in spring 2023 and is now being transformed into an ecovillage. There are 45 hectares of forest and green grazing lands, we can see the Pyrennees mountain from up the hill, there's a big pond where we can hear the frogs and the ducks... Several houses are already built and need to be renovated. The goal is to create :
  🏘️ A living area - several families are in the process of joining the project to become residents ! That's our first step : renovating the houses so that people can live here and bring their energy into the project.
  🌱 A permaculture collective farm (in the long run): vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, algeas, nuts, honey, maybe cheese. Our goal is to create a resilient farm, with several farmers, that can provide food for the residents and nearby villages.
  🚸 A place to learn and share : hosting retreats, workshops, trainings, children camps, conferences, even festivals one day!
  
  💧 Hosting :
  This is still the very begining of our project. Volunteers are fully part of this project : you're like a small water drop, and one day a wonderful river will flow, thanks to all of you. We need YOU to keep this project alive ! We really want to create here the atmosphere we had so many times during our travels, when we were volunteers : a group of people from many different places doing projects together and creating something wonderful !
  
  We welcome: motivated and enthusiastic people ! Eager to learn and who are happy to work. Responsibility is also very important : we'd like you to be able to wash your dishes without us asking for it, not to wait until the compost toilets overflow to empty it in the compost bins, who are able to use a broom when the floor is dirty... We can't welcome phones-addicts. And responsibility towards emotions also : I am responsible of how I feel.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide dans une ferme

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Sports d'aventure

  

  Montagne

  

  Camping

  

  Nature

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Danse

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Randonnée

  

  Cyclisme

  

  Architecture

  

  Animaux

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Histoire

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Musique

  

  Art et design

  

  Livres

  

  Photographie

  

  Langues

  

  Jardinage

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Écriture

  

  Arts du spectacle

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Astronomie

  

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  Dev. durable

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Ferme
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  ✔ We offer :
  • A chance to learn more about carpentry and building wooden houses, as a carpenter lives here.
  • Shared meals !
  • Moments of relaxation, going to swim in the huge lake nearby (in summer!) or in the river,
  • An amazing place to meditate (or sing or dance or just walk!) in the forest...
  • Deep conversations (and not deep also!) about our dreams, our pasts, sharing visions of the world...
  • Learning about ecovillages thanks to our knowledge and experience.
  • And about other interesting subjects, thanks to our library, but unfortunately the books are almost all in French ;)
  
  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!
  
  Please do not contact us here if you're interested in joining as a resident. The volunteer status and "maybe future resident" process is not the same. If you want to join us as a resident, I'm sure you'll find our website ;)

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  What's on the menu at the moment : details when you contact us ;)
  
  ▶️ We need someone who can take care of the cooking and cleaning of the shared house, as well as taking care of Yin, our almost-2-year-old baby a bit during the day!
  
  For now, we don't need help in the garden as it... Doesn't exist yet ! We didn't have time to start.
  
  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...
  
  So : we're looking for motivated, enthusiastic volunteers, also creative because we value that a lot :). And... Who can cook for several people. Yeah I know, we're looking for the perfect volunteers 😁 !
  
  We receive a lot of messages, especially in spring and summer, so I need to be sure you read our profile before contacting us : please copy "montbelarbre ecovillage" in the title of your message.
  
  👷🏼 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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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Espagnol: Débutant

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  Hébergement

  🛖 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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  Autres infos...

  📶 There's no phone reception here. We put WiFi 4 hours per day, during time off. If you need more, you can walk 5mn from the main house, and there is reception !
  
  🚆 To come here by public transport :
  • From Toulouse, there's a 1h train to Pamiers and then a 45mn bus to Aigues-Vives.
  • From Carcassonne, there's a 1h train to Limoux and then a 45mn bus to Chalabre.
  👍🏼 Hitchhiking is very common in this area, a lot of volunteers managed to reach the ecovillage this way !

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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

  Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

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