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Support us with rainwater harvesting and stepping in the Baronnies Provençales, Southern France.

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2025 

 Estancia mínima:  Al menos una semana

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    Support us in spring or early summer with the creation of rainwater harvesting structures, scrub clearing and fencing, and preparing the garden in the Baronnies, Prealpine Provence of Southern France. Our motto is responsibility and reciprocity.

    We, a couple of sexagenarians, welcome support with our project to step former farmland for rainwater harvesting and restoring abandoned agricultural tracks. We live in the Prealps of southern France, east of the Rhone Valley, close to Mont Ventoux. It is a remote rural area sought for alternative agriculture, subject to recurring drought, host of political and cultural experiments.

    We, Justin (geographer and soundscaper) and Johanna (anthropologist), are retirees and living in a former farmstead with 18 ha land at an altitude of 700m in Montbrun-les-Bains. The Anary valley (44.1874, 5.4749) is situated in the headwater of the Toulourenc river, which flows in a deep trough north of Mont Ventoux towards the Rhone. The mountains are rugged and covered with downy oak and mountain beech forests, the flat areas cultivated by lavender fields. The valley is populated by wolves, eagles and vultures, deer, wild boars, foxes; and many others.

    We want to transform a formerly laboured, dry and hydrophobic loamy soil into rainwater collecting, climate adapted stepped land. The physical work can only be done in the fall and spring months, when temperatures are not excruciating. An old stone barn nearby with sunset view keeps us company.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
  • 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

    This is the Provence described by writer Jean Giono and others. We would like to have you realise the poetic presence of man in landscape.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    The help we would need is mostly outdoors but occasionally includes building maintenance:
    - Stepping works in the Champ des Cailles (with a view of Mont Ventoux…).
    - Identifying plants and soils.
    - Chaffing broom.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas hablados
    Alemán: Fluido
    Inglés: Fluido
    Francés: Fluido

    Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
    Our academic professional life has been international and accordingly put us in contact with many languages (and cultures). We like to get on with this diversity.

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    Accommodation is in our house, everybody sharing the living quarters with us.
    Meals are included, unless you depend on a very special diet which you want to take care of yourself. Justin is anyway on a low fat diet. Vegetarian diet is not a problem. We are used to have a creative French, Middle East and African kitchen with local products, into which we would like to integrate our helping guests.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    During free time, you can hike in the immediate surroundings, to the Donne chapel, on the peaks of Buc or Bergiès. Or take a visit to the neighbouring villages Montbrun-les-Bains (3km), Barret-de-Lioure (4 km), or downstream the Toulourenc river. (The Mediterranean Sea is too far for a one day's travel.) There is virtually no public transport at all within an approximately 20 km radius; a "covoiturage" (carpool) is easing mobility. Very dark nights outside full moon: a paradise for stargazers.

  • 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

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    You can work on your own projects digitally. However, you should know that internet connections here are not entirely dependable.

  • Podría aceptar mascotas

    Podría aceptar mascotas

    Notice that the house is surrounded by uncultivated and wild land and corresponding fauna! We have a ruling cat and a little dog (Lagotto). Check if your pet is adapted to this and the occasional presence of hunters.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

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Número de referencia de anfitrión: 664698423183

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