Thomas

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Hi! I'm Thomas, 40, from Belgium.

The times I've felt most alive have always been times of shared, simple, useful work: planting trees, building with whatever is at hand, harvesting, cooking for a crew, and ending the day tired, dirty and happy. That's exactly what I come looking for here. I've learned that about myself: I'm steadier when I'm outdoors and useful than when I'm clever and indoors. What drives me is simple too. At my own scale, wherever I can actually have influence, I try to bend things in the right direction, toward regenerating ecosystems and toward gentler, fairer relationships between people. More peace, more justice, more equity. And I don't believe that happens from a keyboard; I believe it happens with our hands, locally, alongside others.

That's not theory for me. Community life is where I've always felt at home: youth nature camps, flatshares, scientific expeditions, and many participatory building projects over the years. Then, about ten years ago, it all clicked during a four-month Workaway adventure in the Canary Islands, building with upcycled materials and a lot of DIY spirit. That experience led me to start my own project on La Palma: a piece of old terraced farmland we bought as a collective and planted with trees, where I lived off-grid in the mountains for three years. No running water, no grid electricity, and a volcanic eruption along the way. More recently, I spent six months in Portugal helping a reforestation project. Back in Belgium, I built a yurt with my own hands, and it's where I mainly live now, within a collective in the countryside. I've also done quite a lot of wwoofing and volunteering in Belgium and France, mostly on farms: gardening, eco-construction, harvests, whatever needs doing.

A bit of background: I'm a geographer who spent fifteen years as an environmental scientist, including scientific polar expeditions drilling ice cores in the Arctic and Antarctic. Today I work freelance as a developer and cartographer in the environmental sciences (maps, data, code), which pays the bills and leaves me free for the rest. The thread behind all of it is old and simple: I grew up spending every free moment outdoors, and I never stopped marveling at the living world. I just kept looking for ways to make that wonder my life.

The other big thing in my life is music. A huge passion, electronic music especially, but far from only. I craft custom playlists to create the perfect sound atmosphere for a mood or a place, and I'm an amateur DJ.

What I bring: reliable hands, a scientist's curiosity, mapping and data skills if they're ever useful, music, and listening. I think listening is one of the most undervalued skills there is. I'd rather have one real conversation than ten polite ones, and I've learned that most projects (and most groups) run better when people feel genuinely heard.

I'm looking for places working on regeneration in any form: farms, forests, eco-construction, community projects. I'll show up curious, adaptable, and ready to get my hands dirty.

See you soon maybe!

Centres d’intérêt

Soin des plantes

Menuiserie

Camping

Danse

Sports d'aventure

Écriture

Dev. durable

Dev. personnel

Politique/justice sociale

Nature

Activités en plein air

Musique

Montagne

Randonnée

Jardinage

Ferme

Événements/vie sociale

Cyclisme

Langues

Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Espagnol: Intermédiaire
Hollandais: Débutant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
I can help you learn French and I'll be happy if I could improve my spanish

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Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

Ça m'intéresse :  

Aider dans une ferme

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J'ai des connaissances :  

Jardinage d'entretien

Projets DIY créatifs

Éco-projets

Langues

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Je peux apprendre aux autres :  

Aide informatique / Internet

Enseignement

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

- gardening (heavy work, chainsaw, ...)
- building( painting, masonry, carpentry)
- computer work (web development, code, Linux)
- French/English/Dutch and basic Spanish knowledge
- like to work in a team
- map-making
- writing
- video-editing
- djaying

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