Brenderup Folk High School (or the Academy for Intercultural Learning) is hosting this Work Camp. The school is working as a boarding school with an international approach and accepts both Danish and foreign students.
For many years, the school has hosted Work Camps that have supported the building process of their environmentally friendly buildings, such as a straw bale culture and music hall “the Strawberry House”, an ellipse-shaped “Lotus House”, which is functioning as a workshop for outdoor living activities, a treetop shelter and an organic fitness center in our garden, where nature is used instead of artificial machine equipment.
For the last two years we have focused on finishing and retouching our “off-Grid House” – “Casa Verde”, incorporating ideas and concepts from previous years about building sustainably. “Casa Verde” is a cob house inside a plastic membrane – it is built to produce everything - all energy - within its own walls. Last year we also built the composting station, and decorated and made paths in our garden between all our sustainable houses.
Over the past years we, have been incorporating permaculture as a stable concept and tool in our garden planning – this to not only to work sustainably, but also to work towards creating resiliency. The permaculture ethics of “good for nature, good for people, and equal share” is something that is already engrained in our school’s DNA from the very beginning.
Our garden is approximately 1000 square meters. Within our garden we have multiple smaller gardens; we have a food forest, a permaculture garden with perennial vegetables, market garden style vegetable garden and a medicinal herb garden to mention a few.
(Location: Stationsvej 54, 5464 Brenderup, Denmark)
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主要工作
食宿安排
閒餘活動
The main natural resource we will be working with for the Work Camp is water.
This will involve building new water trapping and storing constructions, but also maintaining and reworking already existing water gathering structures at the school. There will be set tasks but also space for volunteers to explore solutions and experiment with these.
One of the main tasks is also reworking the “green roof” on our “strawberry House”.
You should expect to be outside every day and work with garden tools. For instance, you will be digging and moving soil, working with smaller power tools, reworking garden infrastructures, and building smaller constructions for catching, transporting, and storing water.
All projects will be focusing on environmental and green solutions.
During camp, we will take time to debate sustainability and resilience. You will be introduced permaculture, its ethics, and its principles. We will be having conversations about sustainability and permaculture- not only as an environmental issue but on all levels - including sustainability among people and cultures.
Please be prepared for practical work for 6-7 hours a day. There will be two camp leaders who are former students from the school, and different work leaders to teach you how to build and work.