🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🌱 Agroforestry & Permaculture Project in Puglia 🇮🇹

Are you passionate about ecology and sustainable living? You can join an international ESC volunteering experience on a working agroforestry farm in Bitonto, Italy, where you will gain hands-on skills in permaculture design, soil regeneration, and regenerative agriculture. If you are ready to live and work within a real ecological community, this opportunity will help you grow both personally and professionally.

What Will You Do as a Volunteer?

🌳 Work directly on an agroforestry farm with over 15,000 fruit trees, shrubs, and vegetable gardens

🌿 Learn and apply permaculture design principles and ecological ethics in a real environment

✂️ Participate in agroforest management through pruning and organic matter organisation

🪴 Help build and maintain a plant nursery and support planting activities on site

🌍 Contribute to composting, biochar production, and natural fertilisation practices

📚 Attend both theoretical and practical training sessions on agro-ecology and bioconstruction

Accommodation, Food & Travel

🏡 You will live in shared rooms alongside other volunteers and staff members

🥗 Meals are mostly organic, locally sourced, vegetarian, and self-grown on the farm

🍕 Eggs and weekly cheese nights are part of the diet — meat and fish are not served on the farm

♻️ The community values critical consumption — please avoid bringing industrial or packaged food

🧴 Biodegradable and plant-based toiletry products are required during your stay

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Training & Learning

🌱 Permaculture design concepts: how ecosystems work and how to replicate them in practice

🌾 Natural succession and agroforestry layers, observed and practised directly in the field

🪵 Rational management of organic matter and agroforest structure through pruning techniques

🌎 Soil health fundamentals: composting, worm bins, biochar, and biofertiliser preparation

🏗️ Introduction to bioconstruction and ecological building approaches

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Participant Profile

👤 You are between 18 and 30 years old

💚 You have a genuine interest in ecology, sustainability, and regenerative living

🤝 You are open-minded, proactive, sociable, and a strong team player

🌍 You speak English or Italian at a communicative level

🔧 Previous experience in agriculture, social media, or ecobuilding is a plus — but not required

Activity Dates

📅 A total of 24 weeks, running from 01 April 2026 to 01 September 2026

Application Deadline

⏳ 01 April 2026

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Eligible Countries

🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇨🇿 Czechia, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇽🇰 Kosovo, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇲🇪 Montenegro, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden

Application Link

🔗 Apply here: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/50329_en

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