I know how, empower the group, and heal the Earth, (duration 4 months - 17 weeks) between April/May and August/September 2026
"Trinoga" association
Zhelen, Bulgaria
Description
Welcome to Vegetarium community! To live and grow together in this wild area of the Balkan Mountains: enhancing biodiversity, social unity, and personal growth! Master permaculture, discover other eco-projects in Bulgaria, and share authentic lifestyle! During your stay we will be focused on: -Self-improvement, family, and community life: healthy daily routine, morning trainings, sharing circle, healthy nutrition, teamwork. - Autonomy, climate resilience and crisis preparedness. -Helping family and eco projects. - Developing green skills: handling different tools, grow food sustainably, renovate and build a home, organise an eco-friendly householding, balance between nature, local community, markets, and institutions. - Regenerative ecology and agriculture: ability of local creation of living environments that are sustainably productive under changing conditions. - Facing climate change. Welcome to Vegetarium Community Home! Please, read: http://vegetarium.info/our-rules/
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
We share a hamlet of authentic clay houses, improved with common space, modern kitchen and bathroom. We are looking for 4 volunteers: the volunteers will be in shared rooms, two persons from the same gender per room. We are growing, foraging, cooking and eating together healthy, plant based food with some eggs and diary products. Living in the mountain we mainly walk or horse-ride, when possible. At one hour of walk from our home is the train station with regular connection to Sofia (60km) and Svoge (15km.), or a bus.
Training during the activity
Our open and pragmatic methodology provides knowledge, skills and attitudes for: - Healthy and non-violent living; - Regenerative landscaping; - Planting endemic and useful plants: nutritional, medicinal, ecological; - Renovation and construction of houses, using wood, clay, stone, straw and other materials; - Maintenance of eco-farms: gardens, animals, buildings and machinery; - Receiving and training volunteers; - Exchange of production, physical and intellectual labor, with the local population; - Consulting and volunteering for other projects; - Non-dogmatic spirituality;
Participant profile
No previous experience needed. You need strong motivation and will to live the values and principles of the project, to practice it's lifestyle. To be open and implement the desired habits, regarding food, daily regime and program. To be ready to handle responsibilities. For this, you need to be listening, flexible, hardworking and willing to persevere. The specific knowledge, skills and attitudes transmitted, are demanding openness and respect toward our experience in the last 22 years.
Activity dates
A total of 17 week(s) during the period 05/05/2026 to 05/09/2026
Activity location
Daskalovata kashta , Zhelen, Bulgaria
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Health and wellbeing
Education and training
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 12/04/2026 23:32
Project code
2025-1-BG01-ESC51-VTJ-000345847