A day dedicated to self-sufficiency through a learning tour of La Bastardière, from eco-housing to food gardens.
Practical information
Dates et horaires
Capacity
Nous pouvons accueillir jusqu’à 12 personnes
Price
42
Accepted payment methods: Check, Cash, Credit card, Bank transfer
Participer
⚠️ Une inscription est obligatoire pour participer
Registration via HelloAsso.
Additional information
09:30 Welcome, coffee
09:45 Introduction: Why and how to become self-sufficient?
10h00 / 13h00 : Self-sufficient living
- Why buy ruins? (cost, type of building permit, taxes, etc.)
- Restoring or building habitat with limited means, 2 examples (a stone barn, a straw-bale house)
- Techniques and materials: straw bales as insulation, earth/straw rendering, the burnt wood technique
- Photovoltaic autonomy: disconnecting from the electricity grid.
- Autonomous furnishings: rocket stove, pantry, indoor dry toilets, water heating, pedal-powered washing machine.
- Pedo-purification.
1:00 p.m./2:00 p.m. Shared lunch (each participant brings a dish of his or her choice, in the style of a Spanish inn).
2:00 pm / 4:30 pm: Towards food self-sufficiency
- Preparing the vegetable garden (living soil and earthworms, mulching, tarpaulin covering...)
- Self-building a greenhouse
- Self-sufficiency in reclaimed water
- Composts (kitchen and dry toilets)
- Urine in the garden
- Cultivated surfaces and harvested quantities
- Preservation (the cellar, jars, focus on solar drying)
- Everyday low tech (earthen ovens, bike mixers, Norwegian kettles)
4:30 pm / 5:00 pm: Debriefing and discussion of everyone's projects
Possibility of camping or renting accommodation on site.
How to get here?
A day of empowerment!
6, le Guiny56380 Porcaro
FRANCE
Activity description
Nos thèmes d’animation
- Paysan skills
- Environmental education
- Farm visit
Who can participate?
Welcomed audience:- Supervised groups
- Families
- Adults
- Children - 16 years old
- Children - 17 years old
- Children - 18 years old
Accessibility
Who organizes?
Discover our welcome place and our territory
Micro-ferme La Bastardière
Our eco-responsible and farming commitments
- Bio-based construction materials
- Biodegradable construction materials
- Eco-responsible construction materials
Learn more about the welcome place
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