Moving to Nature – Volunteering team in the South of France
Dates: 12/04/2025 to 05/05/2025
Location: CAMPING LE BELVEDERE, LASTOURS, France
Application deadline: 31/03/2025 21:54
LINK: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/44058_en
Description
Our farm and eco-place is moving to new and more autonome land, so we are looking for motivated youngsters who want to help to prepare and set the new bases of an eco-place, how to restore the soil, compost, animal care… and of course, how to live together in harmony with nature. Simple and rural lifestyle! Everything with the intercutural and community learning, by living with 12 volunteers from different countries. And of course, living in a resilient way, following our sustainable and green daily practices. It will be the chance to reflect about our impact, our choices and how we can be agents of change in our society, how to be respectful with the environment and the other living beings. And above all, how to work in a team to be stronger, and show that cooperation have greater results! Soon the infopack!!!
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will stay in shared rooms in mobile homes (2 per room) or in big tents (4 to 6 people), at our ex-campsite in Lastours, surrounded by nature. Volunteers will prepare mainly vegetarian and low impact food and they will cook in teams, 1 day per week. Volunteers will take turns to keep ALL THE COMMON SPACES clean and tidy. There might be a week in camping lifestyle, so basically volunteers will sleep in individual or double tents. There will be days off to enjoy the area and let volunteers explore and travel around. The planning of activities will be shared before the project.
Training during the activity
This project is mostly to have the help of volunteers for the last part of our moving, and the first steps into planting and putting the seeds (literally and metaphorically) in the new place. However, they will have the chance to receive/share different workshops about sustainability, climate change, low-impact kitchen, DIY, permaculture, gardening…. activities will be selected soon!!
Participant profile
MOTIVATED youngsters who are flexible and are looking for new experiences in rural and simple lifestyle. We are looking for responsible youngsters who are willing to help and support this big transition of creating a new land, with good energy! The activities are going to be mainly outdoors and physical. Nature, animal and plant lovers. The knowledge about use of tools and machines is a bonus! Please, send your CV and motivation statement to contact@lesjardiniersdelamobilite.fr (PLEASE, PUT THE NAME OF THE PROJECT IN THE SUBJECT!!!). We will contact all applicants during the first week of march for the next steps 🙂 If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Mushrooms Growers 3 – Learn how to grow mushrooms with us
Dates: 12/05/2025 to 15/12/2025
Location: Carcassonne, France
Deadline for applications: No application deadline
LINK: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/44182_en
Description
We are looking for 2 mushroom lovers, who will work in this circular economy project called Café Vert! This project started years ago, with formation and lots of experimentation, and since 2020, our ESC volunteers are part of this experience. Our cooperative IDC’s projects aim to raise awareness about the actual context we are living and to propose and create solutions to be part of a positive change in a social, cultural and environmental aspect. In this project especifically, we will reuse waste to create new life. You will collect coffee waste from cafés and restaurants (by bike!) and mix it with mycellieum to grow oyster mushrooms. Then monitor their growth, harvest and sell them in a local market. And after harvesting, we use that new “waste” in our earth-worm farm, which is great to create new and rich soil for plants. Soon the new infopack!
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will stay in shared rooms with other person of the same sex, in an appartment in the city center of Carcassonne (just some meters from the main square!). All the transport from the city to the campsite, related to the activities, are covered. Volunteers will share the common tasks of cleaning, cooking and arranging the place. We will give the food budget so that volunteers can make the shopping. We don’t buy industrial food and we try to eat as local and seasonal as possible. And of course, we eat very, very local, eco and fresh mushrooms!
Training during the activity
Volunteers will learn how to grow mushrooms from coffee waste (from the collection step to the selling of the products), how to structure and communicate workshops and events in our eco-boutique, how to participate in local markets, and they will learn different sustainable practices to be more ethical and respectful with the environment. They will be able to lead them after or to propose new ideas/projects around sustainability, local and organic agriculture, intercultural exchange…
Participant profile
We are looking for youngsters who want to invest themselves in a new life experience, with lots of challenges and learnings! Motivation to learn how to grow mushrooms is a must! The activities are a bit of a routine, but it demands lots of observation in the details to make sure that the production will go as planned. There is also space for creativity and new ideas, in terms of improvement of the activities, creating cool content to share the project, creating events, etc. French is a bonus!
Resilient Life – take care of animals, garden and more!
Dates: 13/05/2025 to 31/12/2025
Location: Gardie, France
Deadline for applications: No application deadline
LINK: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/42758_en
Description
We are looking for 2 volunteers to support our main activities: care of animals and plants and harvest of murhsooms, plus help in the moving and creation of a new eco-land. One volunteer will take care daily of the food for animals, water and well being and also maintain their spaces. The other volunteer will take care of the mushrooms fruiting room, the harvest, the hospital of mushrooms and the earth-worm compost. Of course there are also the common tasks and the sustainable and green practices of each day. With this project, we aim to promote commitment, ledearship, autonomy and resilience in order to make our daily life more ethical. . The volunteers will experience a quality intercultural learning and an openness to the world, having the chance to free themselves from judgements. To know a bit about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj4TXPN4Qg&list=PLuzvJ12k2dRR4PxyJe6P2BmivT_S6RMSR&index=9
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
IDC is located in a small town, 20km from Carcassonne where the nearest train station and airport are (the volunteers will be picked from there and will be taken to the place). This region is rural, living mainly from wine farming and tourism. The place is surrounded by nature. Accomodation: volunteers will stay in mobile homes, in shared-rooms, usually with another volunteer of the same sex. Food will be bought twice per month, and volunteers will cook healthy and low-impact food! following the food guidelines.
Training during the activity
The volunteers will be supported by our staff of professionals, who will give them the instructions and information, in order to achieve a succesfull accomplishment of the tasks. Although the development of tasks are in autonomy. Communication and feedback are important. There will also be workshops proposed both from IDC and the volunteers, about sustainability, low-impact food, zero waste, DIY, climate change, resilience, personal development.. Check the infopack: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ocb6e89ladnjam3ejjtt4/IDC_ResilientLife2025.pdf?rlkey=axm6zpd5bu552uufgydev227s&st=ynw7zf2e&dl=0
Participant profile
Motivation!!! 🙂 We are looking for two youngsters eager to HELP, learn and put their hands on! Proactive, creative, motivated to do and learn! Organized and responsible with the tasks, interested in cooking, hosting and caring for animals (animal lover), plants (taking care of other living beings!) and mushrooms!! and ready to get dirty!! We are looking for energetic and responsible youngsters for this position. There will be many outdoors and physical tasks for the moving to the new land, each person will be asked to help as he/she cans!
Short term volunteer for mushrooms eco-support
Dates: A total of 8 week(s) during the period 02/09/2025 to 14/12/2025
Location: Gardie, France
Deadline for applications: No application deadline
LINK: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/43923_en
Description
We are looking for a mushroom and nature lover, who will work at our mushroom farm in this circular economy project called Café Vert! Our cooperative IDC’s projects aim to raise awareness about the actual context we are living and to propose and create solutions to be part of a positive change in a social, cultural and environmental aspect. In this project especifically, we will reuse waste to create new life. We collect coffee waste from cafés and restaurants and we mix it with mycellieum to grow oyster mushrooms. And after harvesting, we use that new “waste” in our earth-worm farm, which is great to create new and rich soil for plants. We are looking for 2 volunteers to stay at our campsite, and take care of the fruiting room, harvesting of the mushrooms, the hospital and the worms compost. In addition, the volunteer will help in other taks of the organization, related to the eco-place, the moving and more. We have 2 options: september-october and mid october – mid december.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteer for fruiting room will stay at our campsite, in shared rooms in mobile homes. We share common tasks of cleaning, cooking and arranging the place. All food is covered! We don’t buy artificial food and we try to eat as local and seasonal as possible. We make the shopping twice per month. Of course, we eat very, very local, eco and fresh mushrooms! The volunteer will share with one other volunteer who is a long term who takes care of the animals of the farm. We are located in Lastours, a small village about 25 mins away from Carcassonne, the nearest city. The place is very rural!!!
Training during the activity
Volunteers will learn how to grow mushrooms from coffee waste and they will learn different sustainable practices to be more ethical and respectful with the environment. They will be able to lead them after or to propose new ideas/projects around sustainability, local and organic agriculture, intercultural exchange…
Participant profile
We are looking for youngsters who want to invest themselves in a new life experience, with lots of challenges and learnings! Motivation to learn how to grow mushrooms and live in the rural area are a must! The activities are a bit of a routine, since the mushroom processes are the same, but it demands lots of observation in the details to make sure that the production will go as planned. Life at campsite is for nature lovers, and those who are looking to connect with it. Simple lifestyle, rural, resilient.
Green Re-Start! Volunteering team in the south of France
Dates: 30/06/2025 to 04/08/2025
Location: Gardie, France
Application deadline: 30/04/2025 17:23
LINK: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/44535_en
Description
Our farm and eco-place is moving to new and more autonome land, so we are looking for motivated youngsters who want to help to learn how to start and set the new bases of an eco-place, how to restore the soil, compost, animal care… and of course, how to live together in harmony with nature. Simple and rural lifestyle! Everything with the intercutural and community learning, by living with 16 volunteers from different countries. And of course, living in a resilient way, following our sustainable and green daily practices. It will be the chance to reflect about our impact, our choices and how we can be agents of change in our society, how to be respectful with the environment and the other living beings. And above all, how to work in a team to be stronger, and show that cooperation have greater results! We will work on the garden (trees and plants), building fences for the animals, compost and soil restoration, and more! Soon the infopack!
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will stay in shared rooms in mobile homes (2 per room) or in big tents (4 to 6 people), at our land in Gardie, surrounded by nature. Volunteers will prepare mainly vegetarian and low impact food and they will cook in teams, 1 day per week. Volunteers will take turns to keep ALL THE COMMON SPACES clean and tidy. There might be a week in camping lifestyle, so basically volunteers will sleep in individual or double tents. There will be days off to enjoy the area and let volunteers explore and travel around. The planning of activities will be shared before the project.
Training during the activity
This project is mostly to have the help of volunteers for starting the new place, and the first steps into planting and putting the seeds (literally and metaphorically). However, they will have the chance to receive/share different workshops about sustainability, climate change, low-impact kitchen, DIY, permaculture, gardening…. activities will be selected soon!!
Participant profile
MOTIVATED youngsters who are flexible and are looking for new experiences in rural and simple lifestyle. We are looking for responsible youngsters who are willing to help and support this big transition of creating a new land, with good energy! The activities are going to be mainly outdoors and physical. Nature, animal and plant lovers. The knowledge about use of tools and machines is a bonus! Please, send your CV and motivation statement to contact@lesjardiniersdelamobilite.fr (PLEASE, PUT THE NAME OF THE PROJECT IN THE SUBJECT!!!!). We will contact all applicants during the second week of march for the next steps 🙂 If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
