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Come and join us on our lovely land and home in Le Poet Laval, South of France

  • Activité récente : 19 juin 2025

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  • Description

    Description

    Description:

    Hello everyone !

    The garden is exploding! We are looking for some help from the 30th of June to the 13th of July (two weeks).

    We are Luc and Katia, brother and sister; we live in a communal setting with people of all ages and a few nationalities, in a country home in the South of France. The house is located just below Le Poët-Laval, a small medieval village in the Drôme department (Rhône-Alpes region), 30 minutes by car from Montélimar and 2h from Lyon, Marseille, Grenoble or Montpellier.

    We aim to live a life in harmony with nature. We use solar energy for some of our hot water and heat, we have a large organic vegetable garden, make our own compost, take care of the forest and fix and upgrade the living spaces ourselves. We intend to create a place based on community sharing, intergenerational and intercultural exchange and creative explorations.

    We have both traveled around the world and we love good conversation and sharing our experiences. Besides French, our mother tongue, we speak English, Portuguese and a little bit of Spanish.

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities:
    This is a great place to discover both the French and Provençal cultural environment. You will be able to visit typical small villages, open air markets and discover local food (goat cheese, wine, olives, tapenade…), including lots of organic products, since Drôme has many organic farmers.

    Here you can also enjoy the beauty of nature. Mountain and forest hiking routes are abundant, some of them leaving from our house. You will also find climbing areas and if you are lucky (depending on the season) you can take a bath in the river!

    This region is culturally very active, with concerts, festivals, theater and more, especially in the warer months.
    We both have artistic, creative and personal development backgrounds. Katia is a puppeteer and singer, and Luc is a creative carpenter and a “human design” guide.
    We will be happy to share what we have gathered along the road with you.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Aide avec des éco-projets
    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    Aide à la maison
    Entretien général
  • Centres d’intérêt

    Centres d’intérêt

    Politique/justice sociale
    Événements/vie sociale
    Dev. durable
    Culture
    Dev. personnel
    Soin des plantes
    Musique
    Livres
    Art et design
    Langues
    Jardinage
    Cuisine et alimentation
    Arts du spectacle
    Écriture
    Auto-stop
    Menuiserie
    Yoga / bien-être
    Nature
    Montagne
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    This is a great place to discover both the French and Provençal culture. You can visit typical Provençal villages, open air markets and discover local food (goat cheese, wine, olives, tepenade…), including lots of biologic products, since Drôme has a lot of biologic producers.

    Here you can also enjoy nature in its purest form. Mountain and forest hiking routes are really abundant, you have climbing areas and if you are lucky (depending on the season) you can even take a bath in the river!

    This region is also culturally very active and you can find concerts, festivals, theater…

    Our house does not fall behind in the artistic aspect since Katia is a puppeteer and singer, and Luc is a creative carpenter and a “human design” guide. We will be happy to share everything we know with you.

    We are also willing to devote some time to English and French teaching if you want!

  • Aide

    Aide

    Help:

    Help here will always take place in the house or taking care of the land:

    - Vegetable garden: Seeding, harvesting, irrigation, preparing new beds, making compost, maintaining the fence, cutting the grass.
    - Forest: Cutting fire wood, cleaning the forest.
    - Maintaining the pond.
    - Carpentry and do-it-yourself workshop: different carpentry work around the house.
    - General maintenance around the house..

  • Langues parlées

    Anglais: Courant
    Français: Courant
    Portugais: Courant
    Espagnol: Débutant

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    Accommodation:

    You will have a comfortable room with a single or double bed .We also have a room with four beds for bigger groups. There is a bathroom exclusively for volunteers and they are two kitchens for our use in the house.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    What else:

    How you can get here:
    There are trains and buses to Montélimar, and from there you can take the bus 35, direction Dieulefit and stop at “Poët Laval Gougne”:


    We can come and pick you up in Montélimar if there are no buses available when you arrive.

    About food:
    Depending on the number of people, we will eat some or all the meals together. We eat mostly vegetarian, but not exclusively. We can also offer you to eat mostly raw food. Let us know if you have an interest in that.

    Other things we’ll be happy to offer you while you are here:
    English or French lessons.
    Taichi lessons and practice (Yang school, short form).
    Introduction and discussion of your “human design”chart.

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Plus de 2

N° de référence hôte : 454334477397

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