DREAM YOUR LIFE OR LIVE YOUR DREAMS!
Support micro-farm & experiment Farm community living !
Picture yourself surrounded by nature, in a comfortable, rented cottage in the wild! Here, you have time to work, experiment and breathe! Here, everyone has the space to get involved in a Natural Learning Process*: Observe, Try out, memorise and enjoy!
Is immersion on a Collective Farm for you?
Are you nomadic family, digital nomad, an adventurous family with children looking for a temporary Home?
Are you looking for a place where you can do an apprenticeship* out of the ordinary!
Are you searching to experiment collective/community living and are eager to learn independence and autonomy while building meaningful connections?
What awaits You?
We’ve created a balanced experience to live:
For Yourself: Time to relax and recharge with your family. Weekends will be unforgettable: exploring secret natural sites away from the touristic crowds!
For Children Forest Club - A daily nature-based learning programme . For your young people with a Personal Mentoring programme based on their motivations and ambitions related to the Nature.
For Your Work: Dedicated time and space to focus on your online projects in a Co-working space and friendly environment.
When and for how long?
Welcome for a long term session: joining for 6 weeks or 3 month, - we are hosting you all year long, each place offering its own seasonal beauty and advantages!
Where do you live?
You will be in total immersion in Nature enjoying a private space with your family. Your child will be at the doorstep of “school” with Forest Club! Your food fresh from the local organic garden nearby! Your wellness and relaxation area at a stone's throw from your door.
Where?
At this moment Essence de la Nature is in three region of the world: the Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Western Africa.
The farms and farmers were selected during a substantial stay with children, experimenting what it is means for them: thinking, doing and living together.
We are people committed to a common values: Freedom; Autonomy towards Self-reliance and Self-Sufficiency!
OUR SERVICES
A micro-farm in the sobering wild
We welcome to Q, a quirky emerging homestead of creative, resilient thinking, set in a small wooded river valley.
We have spaces for Private Living; for caring for Animals; for Workshops; Gardening and Cooking together.
Privacy with yourself or with your family
Welcome to your simple family nest, where you can enjoy your own time and space in the countryside.
You can enjoy your Mornings, Evenings and Weekends, away from traffic jams, relax or pursue your activities.
Food and community life
As a kitchen team member, you will work with an experienced vegan cook and others to create balanced meals, bake bread and process the produce of the garden, the wild and the surrounding community.
The meals are local, fresh, organic and home-made, with the focus on plant-based foods and fermentations.
Forest Club - A daily nature-based learning process.
Your child is invited to be immered for 4 hours each working day, exploring the Natural World, with a mentor.
This programme is establishes self-motivation on subjects like science, literature, mathematics and geometry through hands-on activities with concrete challenges.
Hands-on DIY Workshops - intergenerational group session
Join a “team spirit” with an expert mentor, three hours a day. Experience self-sufficiency through collaboration, founding complementarity, with joys and challenges in a supportive environment.
Learning self-building methods, renewable energy, permaculture and more.
Co-living - as a lifestyle!
You share responsibility for harmony, learning to handle emotions and conflicts.
As Co-chef cooker, you explore healthy, natural and nourishing food; practice Self-Mindfulness and Herbalism.
Co-educator, you also learn to manage families’ events with the support of our Nature facilitators.
Option 1: Basic *
You can live here bringing your mobile home, or setting up tents and offering your skills.
You have in between 14 - 24 years old, and you come on your own for “an exclusive apprenticeship”, we take the time to explore your interests and motivations and draw up an action plan.
*A phone interview will be set up to agree on this exchange.
Option 2: Family Session
You can enjoy your personal time in your private areas with your Family.
Your child/young can join the Forest club or the Mentoring session for four hours each weekday,
In the afternoon, you spend three hours: Workshops “learning by doing together.”You also have access to the Meditation and Yoga area for relaxation.
Option 3: Advanced Family Session
Enjoy time for yourself. Each weekday, your kids spend four hours at Forest Club or a Mentoring session.
Each weekday, your children are host at Forest Club or the Mentoring session for four hours. Recharge with one hour of relaxation each weekday, including Wellness session ( yoga, meditation, or Ayurvedic massage.)
On weekends, escape the tourist crowds and take private tours to the countryside.
We can't wait to hear from you!
We can't wait to hear from you!
Interested in coming as family farm Stay? Fill out some info and we will be in touch shortly!
Upcoming events.
Essence de la Nature is also offering the opportunity to try out :
“Doing, living and Learning Together!”
Essence de la Nature open you new doors of a free family instruction.