🇧🇬 ESC Volunteering in Bulgaria 🌱 Permaculture and Regenerative Community Living in the Balkan Mountains 🏡

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 details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

A total of 8 week(s) during the period 01/10/2026 to 01/12/2026

Location

Vegetarium community home, Zhelen, Bulgaria

Deadline

No application deadline

Project code

2025-1-BG01-ESC51-VTJ-000345847

Topics

Looking for participants from

Many countries can apply. The activity takes place in one location, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria.