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🌿 Help us care for our home, gardens & wild land in the Cévennes mountains of France 🌳🌸

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The experience

Bonjour! ☀️
Our little family has spent many wonderful years here—building, beautifying, and enjoying this special place. But now, the children have grown and are spreading their wings, each following their own path. That’s life. 🌍🕊️
And yet, nature—like the heart—doesn’t like emptiness. So, this warm and unusual house is now wide open to welcome you.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

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.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

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

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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!

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner French or Intermediate English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

🤝 What We Offer:
A warm, peaceful mountain home 🏡
Flexible, shared-living-style arrangements — come for a short stay or longer if we click!
Possibility to stay longer as a form of intentional coliving if you’re looking for refuge or connection
A chance to live close to nature while doing meaningful, grounding work 🌱
Good conversations, shared meals, creative energy, and friendship
🎬 Our Passions & Vibe:
We love cinema (we work with a traveling cinema project), and welcome all forms of artistic expression. We’re also into:
⛵ Sailing and boats (even here in the mountains—we have a sailing club nearby and also take trips further afield!)
⛰️ Mountain hikes, especially in the Pyrenees
🎶 Music, dancing, shared meals, celebrations
🌍 Humanitarian work, activism, rethinking the world, and aiming for "happy sobriety"
❤️ And above all: community, kindness, curiosity, and joy
This place isn’t about maximizing profits or polishing your résumé. It’s about sharing time, energy, and life. ✨
If any of this speaks to your heart, we’d be delighted to meet you. Let’s reinvent a bit of the world together.
À bientôt! 🌻

Activities & Shift

🧱 Current & Upcoming Projects:
✅ A massive dry stone wall that collapsed 4 years ago during a Cévennes storm has just been fully rebuilt — thanks to many helping hands and drops of sweat. It's part of our deep belief in preserving the legacy of those who built these lands for future generations.
🌊 Our next challenge: adapting the gardens to future water shortages. We're sealing the terraces (bancels) to retain water better—after many trials and errors, we’ve got a system that works! It’s sweaty work, but hey, it’s good for the soul (and body). 💪
🔥 We also need help clearing over a hectare of land around the house—removing invasive plants and managing regrowth to prevent fire risks.