Boskanter VZW

Boskanter is a non-profit educational project that inspires people to live less dependent of fossil fuels and tries to enhance local resilience. We are organised as a small, self-sustainable farm on 4 ha with forest, orchard/meadow and field, where the accent is more on trying things out and giving people the chance to learn and to exchange, then on being completely self-sustainable. We have two dogs and cats, some chickens, a horse that helps in the forest and three sheep. The transition towns movement is an inspiration and we use permaculture principles. We have some production such as bread, berries and fruit (future), herbs (future) and artisanal products and we organise workshops and an alternative bar to accompany our activities. We need the income to pay our costs.
Our main method is giving people the opportunity to live and work with us for a while, as a short- or long-term volunteer, as a visitor of a camping week, as a group that stays for a weekend, as a school that comes for one afternoon, ... We also organise some trainings and some activities for the neighbourhood such as a thematic pub. We reach mostly people that are already a bit familiar with the idea of sustainable living, and want to get a step further, but we also try to reach people for whom this idea is still quite new.
We try to cooperate with the local community, so try to be not extreme in our appearance.

Boskanter is also a co-housing project from some like-minded people (some kind of very small eco-village), interested in living more 'in harmony with nature', sustainable and self sufficient in some ways.