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🌿 Volunteer at Eco-Habitat – La Ferme sur Besorgues (France)

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The experience

Join our unique ecological project, where we reconnect deeply with nature and with ourselves. Learn and work alongside us as we build a more sustainable future. We typically work four hours a day, the rest of the time we celebrate a naturist lifestyle. Experience with naturism is not needed, we only ask that you are respectful, genuine and willing to participate.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate German

Under 60 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Every morning we start with spiritual exercises in nature. We physically work an average of four hours a day in the food forest or vegetable garden. This is good for our personal health and it teaches us physically how much energy needs to be produced for a regenerative and ecological living system. Every day we reflect for ten minutes in a personal place somewhere on our site. In the afternoon you are free to do as you please. Characteristic of our project is that we live nude in a small community, You don’t have to be experienced in this, but we ask you to go along with it. It strengthens the social connection and the connection with nature. In the evenings we usually have dinner together and tell each other stories about wonderment in nature that day. These are often special and rich moments in which we really meet. You share a nicely furnished bedroom with another volunteer. We all share the bathroom. In addition, we have a cozy and beautiful space where you can retreat from time to time.

Activities & Shift

If you are joining us, we are asking you to work with joy and energy and give us also some real physical help. We are working in the food forest and vegetable garden, building terrace walls or chopping wood and other work that has to be done on a farm. Sometimes we are doing a beautiful ritual to pay gratitude to the medicine plant sage and making sage-syrup. In the past nine years we hosted more than 150 volunteers from 24 different nationalities.

Unfortunately we feel the necessity to express ourselves and be a bit more outspoken then we normally would like:

We take great care to ensure that performance and reward are balanced, we don't accept helpers who are not really interested in our philosophy and concept. We are living in an small community, which means living together and sharing together, we expect that everybody naturally and without asking, clean parts of the farm, like you would do in your own place too. We see this part not as work-away hours, but just commonality: We’re not a restaurant nor a guesthouse with housekeeping, but a community. That takes more than doing the dishes. We are asking you to leave your phone in the farm during the work and the dinners. We really like to connect with the land and each other. You will experience that our community lifestyle is very fulfilling, grateful and gives a lot of meaningfulness.

The uniqueness of our ecological project is what we are: Living the change and get empowered to share inspiring stories for a sustainable future.

Rules

Also important to notice: if you confirm your stay with us and cancel it at short notice this would be unfair for helpers who asked to come but couldn't come because we didn't have a free position anymore and unfair towards us because we also need to plan our projects.

During the working hour and dinners we are inviting you not bringing your mobile phone with you.