Volunteering in Brakel: helpers on our educational permaculture farms 2024
Date start: 01 May 2024
Date end: 31 Oct 2024
Boskanter is a place where people can experience and experiments with ways of living that are less dependent on fossil fuels and more resilient. By letting people experience a regenerative alternative, we broaden the scope of alternatives, reduce fear and create hope and courage to consider the radical changes that need to be made in the world, rather than criticizing the current system and people trapped in it. Volunteers learn to manage the place and to host short term volunteers and visitors. They try to master some skills related to 'living of the land'. They inspire visitors and short term volunteers with this life and even try to teach them (some of) what they learned. They help to organize activities for the neighborhood. Workdays start with a meeting at eight, and are flexibly adapted to work and needs of participants. The project exists of two farms at 8 km distance, in the Flemish part of Belgium, each inhabited by a family with two teenage kids and some volunteers.