Skills for a future world.

The volunteer will stay one year to learn (and eventually teach some of the) skills that will make him or her less dependent on fossil fuels and other ending resources. Trough practising this skills, the volunteer and the visitors of Boskanter get the taste of this other, possible world. This might get them motivated to work towards this kind of life more then if they are just told that they should.

Some examples of those skills are:
- make sour-dough bread in a wood-oven
- make natural paints and wall finishes
- learn to work with them
- preserve courgette as a delicious pickles
- live together and share equipment
- spin wool, make baskets
- know (how to use) wild edible plants
- practise some permaculture
- make yoghurt, cheese, grain milk, mayonnaise
- house horses in a natural way

There is the possibility to work together with a small experiential school in Ronse to organise activities based on those skills for some of the kids (2,5 till 12).

The volunteer will live in the small ecological co-housing project with a couple with two kids aged 4 and 6 and two other adults. They engage to live according to the ecological standards of the co-housing project. It is on the same place as the project (although in a separate building), in a quite remote place (4,5 km from small city) in the middle of nature, with some sheep, two cat, two dogs, some chickens and a horse.

The activities of Boskanter are mainly hosting (non-EVS) short term (some weeks) (international) volunteers. We also organise camping weeks in the summer, some workshops, a thematic pub, a small organic shop, ...

One of the co-housers is selling quality hand-tools such as scythe, axe, saw and knifes. He also instructs people in the use of this tools, for example to cut wooden spoons or other greenwood skills.
Another regular visitor of Boskanter is David, an organic farmer who grows vegetables on our field to sell them on the market in Brussels.
We make bread every Tuesday to sell in a local network of producers-consumers. Other artisan products we make (with the help of volunteers) are sold on Christmas markets or open days.