Volunteering Opportunity: Mountain Farm Loasa Cooperative (Bruzella, TI), 03. to 09. August 2025
Description: Alpe Loasa is a full-year organic mountain farm in southern Switzerland, at the Italian border. The farm is remote from cities or villages, accessible only by walking or horse riding, with frugal accommodation. The many works are usually done by the tenant and the cooperative by hand. Many helping people are therefore very valuable. In return of the work and the remoteness of the site, we offer an intense community experience.
Work: Various tasks are pending like haymaking, installing cross-cuts (rain gutters), installing new stairs, renovating the house yard. Work tasks can be rotated among volunteers and need to be planned spontaneously according to the weather conditions. Due to the heat work starts early and there is a long siesta after lunch.
Keep in mind that often the work on a farm can be monotonous and physically demanding causing even muscle ache. But it is also astonishingly satisfying.
Study theme: We will talk about subsistence farming and traditional construction methods under mountainous conditions.
Conditions:
- Age: The camp is open for people aged 18 and over.
- This is a child-friendly work camp
Further Information and registration online. For further questions around workcamps visit our website or contact: Hannah Egger via hannah.egger@scich.org.
Ala Cròta
6837 Bruzella
Schweiz