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Share your enthusiasm and join us at our ecovillage in Ariège, France

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2025 

 Estancia mínima:  Al menos 3 semanas

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    🙋‍♀️ Hey you! Thanks for reading our profile (entirely, if you contact us, please!)

    ⚠️ We're also looking for someone who could be taking care of our 1 yo baby for some hours during the day, and be responsible for a clean and warm house (means mainly cleaning the shared kitchen, and keep the fires going in the 3 fireplaces). So that I (Florane) can also work outside without carrying a baby on my back all the time! I know this is not the most sexy tasks but that would be a great help for us!

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    🟠 Soonest availabilities: from 24th of March!
    🟢 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 :
    7 humans are living here for now : Jean-Marc, Gaëtan & Claire, and the Flos (Florane and Florian) and their daughters Gaïa (6) and Yin (1). Little by little some other people or families will settle!
    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.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Proyectos artísticos
    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Ayuda en una granja
    Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
    Cocinar para toda la familia
    Ayuda doméstica
    Mantenimiento general
  • Intereses

    Intereses

    Montaña
    Acampada
    Naturaleza
    Yoga / bienestar
    Baile
    Deportes acuáticos
    Actividades al aire libre
    Senderismo
    Ciclismo
    Arquitectura
    Animales
    Bricolaje y manualidades
    Historia
    Cuidado de plantas
    Música
    Arte y diseño
    Libros
    Fotografía
    Idiomas
    Jardinería
    Cocina y alimentación
    Escritura
    Artes escénicas
    Dibujo y pintura
    Carpintería
    Astronomía
    Autostop
    Sostenibilidad
    Autodesarrollo
    Agricultura
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    ✔ We offer :
    • A chance to learn more about carpentry and building wooden houses.
    • Shared meals with other volunteers and most of the time with at least one resident.
    • 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 ;)

    ✖ We cannot offer :
    If you're looking for being with a French family all the time, like an immersion in a French family life, always cooking together, spending every evenings and days off together, etc. That's not the right place for you. Here live several families who also need their time just by themselves. We are now sharing the house together and with the volunteers but we cannot be always with people : we need to be alone sometimes (it's maybe because we have children and because we have a looooot of things to do for now - the beginning of the project). Just to be clear about this expectation we cannot meet.

    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 ;)

  • Proyectos con niños

    Proyectos con niños

    En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    🛠 What's on the menu at the moment :
    We are building 8 wooden houses with Gaëtan, the carpenter who lives in the ecovillage.
    Some of the steps you'd be involved in : putting the tiles on the roofs, insulation (wood fiber), making the house wind and rain proof (outside) and steam-proof (inside), create the metallic pieces around windows, sanding and oiling the inside wooden panelling, outside wooden cladding... And everything around this big construction mission. Please note that, for now, we don't need help for agricultural works.

    And 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 volunteers with wood skills - good handy(wo)men. You can use a drill ? a screwdriver? have a nice work ethic (able to remember where this tool was before using it...?) ! Motivated, enthusiastic and hard-working people, 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 we would usually ask you to have your "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 :)

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas hablados
    Inglés: Fluido
    Francés: Fluido
    Español: Principiante

    Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
    Of course if you want to speak French it's a good place to come ;) Some of us would like to improve our Spanish.

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    🛖 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.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    📶 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 !

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    Más de dos

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 121934479154

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