Woodwork and sustainability in a wild place, Aquitaine, France

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  Hi there!
  
  Our family started to settle at this place 31 years ago. As permanent resident, there is Thomas, Polly, Lucien, Louise, Hector and Patoche our little and smelly dog.
  
  The house has always been open, and workaway is for the perfect way for us to carry on sharing nice work, in a nice place, with nice people!
  
  The old farm where we live is 4 kms away from the next little village. Lost in the forest and very calm. There are many little rivers flowing around and wild footpaths to explore.
  
  We are taking care of some non-commercial activities :
  - A permaculture garden : Raised Beds, and a giant (120m2) Geodesic Greenhouse
  - An community pub (pub associatif) called The Petticoat, but only on Friday evenings in the winter
  
  Here, we are mainly gardening, doing some wood work and there are a lot of side tasks we have to do (repair/build things, clean, cook, childcare etc). The target now is sustainability for the place or at least decrease our consumption of energy (produce our own if possible) and being able to produce more food all year long.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Trabalho beneficente

  Projetos artísticos

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Manutenção geral
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  O que é isso?
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  You will be lost in the pine forest surrounded by wildlife, the daily feeling of sharing a place where, only two generations before, there were no machines.
  
  Then discover how we deal with it now, in the 21th century. What we choose to do here and there to adapt to the place, making life as nice as possible without destroying the living potential of it all, and as possible, make it grow !
  
  There will be technical points in what you will learn here, ideas about permaculture, woodwork but the most important is the people you will meet.
  
  As I have been running a "Discovery Farm" during years I'm also able to give many information about the area, historic details about this very special french desert now planted with a forest and about the people trying to live there.
  
  And there's also the people, a bunch of friends around my farm, collected after 30 years spent at the same place.
  
  If you come here, you will also be connected to a recycling second hand shop that I'm taking care of. This charity place gives jobs to 13 people, you can find there all you need (cloths, bicycles, furniture...) for very cheap prices. As I build this activity 15 years ago, you will be at the good place to learn about how it's works.
  
  I don't know how to end this....may this place is just something that will surprise you, as it surprise me for a while!

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  We usually host 1-3 people at the same time, to have an independent and friendly team.
  
  Right now the tasks we have to do during the next month are:
  - prepare things for a festival (compost toilets, sign posts, benches, decorations)
  - build a new barn for the new sawmill
  - gardening (maintenance, cleaning, soil preparation, pruning etc.)
  - renovate an ancient and beautiful house (big task!!)
  
  We can and will make lists together of all the tasks we have to do, but we also welcome any initiative or idea if you have any!
  
  We are harvesting knowledge around permaculture, and we would be glad to welcome someone with those skills.
  
  We only accept a minimum stay of two weeks, less is not really enough for both of us (workawayer and host) to know each other, appreciate the place and the people.
  
  And please, think twice before validate a stay, because a great number of person changes their mind at the last moment, and it really doesn't help or even respect the minimum of organisation we need!!

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  Idiomas

  Inglês: Fluente
  Francês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Iniciante

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  Acomodação

  We have a mix of options for accommodation: we have one double room in a shared house, and also the option of a big (25m2) caravan for extra beds, depending on how many people are staying here at the time. Workaways often stay in their campervans, and we also can welcome tents. There is an outdoor shower and plenty of kitchens! We sometimes share meals and sometimes don't – it depends on the rhythm of the day and the needs of everyone!

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  Algo mais...

  Sorry for this, but our friends cats and dogs are not allowed here, it's not negociable: we're fitted with a large wild life around!
  
  Fifteen minutes from here, one of my friends runs a little rootsy surf school in a wild place...just to say :)
  
  Location is between Bayonne and Bordeaux.
  The train station next to here is Morcenx, beach at 20 kms (40min by bike).

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  The path to reach the farm is sandy and narrow but it is possible in a campervan.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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  Horas previstas

  25 hours max :)

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