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Helper for natural building and garden activities

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The experience

You will be working on cob, earth and lime plastering, and maintenance on the garden and drystone walls, learning about our choices and ways to build an eco house. I will give you a full presentation of our project and future project such as time bank community, food forest garden…

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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.

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 Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

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

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Surf lessons: Take free surf classes at the local beaches.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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 English or Beginner French

Between 18 and 54 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We expect from the volunteers to help us with our basic natural building task such as digging, carrying buckets, mixing mud and straw, building strawbale walls…, and garden work. We have professional time to time such as carpenter, stone Mason.. that are more than happy to share there knowledge with you. As long as you have your 25h per week done, you will enjoy the rest of your free time.
You can expect with us to be very flexible about the work task and your working time( you can take a break to give a call, eat, drink.. and of course if you are sick we ll get you what you need.) we provide you with food, and your own shared mobile home for volunteers. And we provide you with food for the week, all our volunteers were cooking and eating together.

Activities & Shift

We usually start around 9am in the morning and finished by 2:30pm and take on the task for the day all together or by group of 2-3. Task are variable and adaptable to your skills and strengths.

Rules

Respect every one, you will receive a full induction on health and safety, respect this rules all the time during work.