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Use your creativity to showcase our permaculture garden

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The experience

Our permaculture garden attracts a lot of visitors and also our camping guests regularly ask to see the garden. But without explanation, it is not always easy to see the permaculture solutions and the benefits of the techniques that we use.
You can imagine that we don't have the time to give every visitor a guidance. So Barbara created a social permaculture design with solutions for this "problem". It is called "The garden speaks".

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

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

Fluent 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

This will be a fun project! Defining the elements that need explanation, making pictures and/or films, writing text (together with us), making infographics, and setting up a system of small QR codes in the garden that lead to our website with the detailed info about the element. Which can be photo's, film, infographic, text...
Think: a list of 20 benefits of mulch in a garden bed. Or info about a specific compost method (we use several methods). A quiz of all functions of the branch wall...

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, for the European Permaculture Network and Barbara has her permaculture Diploma (mentored by Looby Macnamara).

Activities & Shift

You will work together with Barbara Scheltus who wrote up the permaculture design for this project. She also manages the website and social media. She could use your fresh look on things! :-D

We expect you to LOVE nature, to be communicative, to have some skills in taking pictures or filming, and/or to be creative.
You don't need much knowledge about permaculture, biology or gardening but it might come in handy.
Skills in social media and how to showcase us is a pre: we are not so good at that ourselves! Maybe we can setup a plan for that together.

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!