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Setting out hiking trails through forest and our terrain

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The experience

It would be amazing to have a 2km, a 4-5km and a 8-10km hiking trail on and around our terrain! Clear, well marked and with a handout on paper.
Ideally there would also be viewpoints marked and benches put, or QR codes put where there is something special (a tree, a birds nest, mushrooms...) that needs extra info. But those extra's can come later.

This is one of these fun projects that we just don't have time for but would be highly appreciated!

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

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

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

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

Additional fee required

Amount: € 100 One time

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Donation to project

Description: This fee is for a week long course in permaculture and sustainable living. We start your 4 weeks volunteering period here with a course that will be fun and hands-on. We have developed a program with learning about sustainable and self sufficient living, how to DO that, and how social and land based permaculture is a basis for us.

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.

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!

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

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

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

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

Requirements

Intermediate English or Fluent German

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Your stay here starts with a week long course as an introduction to permaculture, sustainable living and self-sufficiency. These courses start every month.
Unless you already have your PDC: then your date of arrival is more flexible.

Our "rich forest" is a LAND demonstration site for the Permaculture Association Britain and Barbara has her permaculture Diploma (mentored by Looby Macnamara) also through this organisation. We would like to offer visitors more to do here, so therefore this hiking trail project (among other projects).

For this hiking trail project we have started a permaculture design. We will finish the design together with you so you'll learn the benefits of permaculture thinking and designing.

Activities & Shift

You will work in a team with other volunteers and our son Nol who knows the area well.

The activities for this project are:
- analyzing maps, defining good hiking trails
- test-walking
- cleaning the trails
- making and placing trail markers
- making it all look nice
- marking the trail(s) on a map
- describing the trail(s) for a hand out
- creating the hand out
- documenting steps for the design

Rules

We expect fun and flexibility, openness and drive. You can expect this all from us as well.
We expect you to be a responsible person with an adult attitude.

We provide you with 3 meals per day. Breakfast you have at your own time, lunch and dinner we do together.
Every morning we have a check-in to start the day.
Every Friday we close the week with an evaluation and celebration.

Although we are meat eaters, we enjoy vegetarian food as well. But veganism we do not appreciate because in our climate region that is not sustainable. So if you eat vegan please don't apply.
We don't appreciate dogma's and fixed thinking in general.

After the first introduction week, you can stay here another 3-99 weeks. Of course we discuss this, your goals and wishes, and we look at how we "match". Volunteering has to be fun for the both of us!