Another week full of changes! Taking after the collective Etc. , the network Eco-Nomadic School has had its turn of work for the Michelet garden.
Eco-Nomadic School is a class project for nomadic and temporary mutual learning and teaching practices of eco-citizens in various parts of Europe. The network, formed by four European partners, meets regularly for workshops in different countries. So it was the turn of AAA to receive the nomadic school.
They found themselves for the week:
– 4 people from FCDL of Brezoi , Romania: this structure is a foundation that promotes local development in rural areas in the Carpathian mountains.
– 4 people Myvillages , Germany, England, the Netherlands: an international network of artists, which focuses on the rural as a space and cultural production.
– 4 people of Agency , Sheffield – United Kingdom: This research center affiliated with the University of Sheffield centers its work on education as a cultural practice.
Also present were, of course, members of the AAA team, organizer of the workshop. This group of people belonging to the European network, joined a dozen volunteers, eager to learn this week, exchange practices and knowledge. We thank them for their invaluable help throughout the week.
All these people come from different backgrounds, and have shared their knowledge and skills: about gardening, carpentry, crafts, earth moving, but also other even more amazing environmental practices. How, for example, keep food fresh on site that does not have a refrigerator? We have dug a hole using the cool soil to keep the costs. Some of us have taught carpentry techniques, while others have taught us to make soup with the “weed” from the garden.
The project took over the one of the Collective Etc and we have not built new facilities, but rather filled, detailed, and completed skeletons built the previous week. There were many small sites: building the inside of dry toilets; determine the solid portions and open portions of structures, then do the cladding; strike the ground and make a ramp of drying planks for the conviviality space; do the roof of the two facilities taking into account the recovery of rainwater, build sunshades to shade on the terrace. Many small sites that allowed the completion of the modules initiated a week before.
But there was also a major initiative, a sort of thread of the week: storage site in anticipation of the construction site of the building facing the street that will begin this summer. The collected materials were sorted, prepared, then stored in the storage space at the end of the plot. The large garden plots were weeded and work has been started on the front slope.
The work of two weeks has transformed the shape of the site, and we are very happy to see the Agrocité gradually emerge on what was still a wasteland a year ago.
