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Fully funded Eco-community Volunteering Opportunity

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The experience

Off the grid tiny house experience in a Permaculture Food forest 🌳🏑🌳

🌐 two places – EU residents/citizens – 18-30 years old – 2 months – fully funded

πŸ“ Where: Eco-community in a forest in Dalfsen, East of The Netherlands (close to Zwolle city)

πŸ“… When: 1 sept. - 29 okt. 2025, 59 days

πŸ“ Read more & apply: www.gen-nl.nl/escdalfsen/

πŸ“© Contact: Bouwie (coordinator), Earth Collective | bouwie@aardecollectief.nl | www.aardecollectief.nl/en

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

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

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.

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 Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

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

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

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

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

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

Be from outside Netherlands

European Union Passport

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Are you interested in experiencing, off the grid, tiny house
lifestyle within a community?
Curious how nature and humans needs can come together?
During this funded volunteering project you are able to have this opportunity!

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
You will be living and working within an Eco community in Dalfsen (close to Zwolle), experience life in a (food)forest, learning how to grow and harvest food, develop practical skills for off the grid living, make friends and actively become part of a regenerative culture!
This ESC project is for EU citizens (under 30) interested in developing ecological, social skills and curious about the ecovillage movement.

MORE INFO
Our community (Β± 14 people) owns ten off-grid houses situated within a diverse food forest. You will be offered one of the houses to live and practice off the grid living, with guidance of our experienced community members. In the house of the
coordinator is a WiFi internet connection.

With ten years of fostering our principles Liberty, Equality, and Togetherness, we provide a safe, natural space to guide and inspire individuals with a wish to reconnect with nature (laws) and/ or struggle to find their place in society, interested in offgrid living, food forest cultivation, and food sovereignty.
Apart from the daily activities you are surrounded by very beautifull Dutch nature to enjoy.

Our community is situated at the river β€˜de Vecht’, swimming and Canoeing around the corner.
Nature and forest walks/ bike rides all around (bikes availible). The center of pittoresque Dalfsen is 10 minute by bike, the city Zwolle 7 minute by train from Dalfsen.

Activities & Shift

Work during weekdays, weekends are off. 2 days off per month.

Rules

This is a EU funded opportunity, there are rules about registration and paper work attached to it. But you get full attention, more guidance, your travel expenses covered and a bit of pocket money.