The fieldtrip to the South of France was comprised of four sites : a self-sufficient permaculture farm (Beauchamp), an agricultural cooperative (Cravirola), a cooperative village (Viel Audon), and a cooperative self-managed farm (Caracoles de Suc). Visiting these locations fostered discussion and consideration of ecological cultural...
From ruined buildings, hay fields and neglected vines and woods bought 18 years ago, Beauchamp has come to life again with the help of hundreds of people ; first erected as an english community and now run by a small core of persons, they are all gathered both around local and the...
The cooperative Cravirola gathers a dozen of persons from various ages and origines, who share values, work and income, to experiment collectively an alternative to the global system , without following any dogma. Both idealistic and pragmatic, the activities which are developped here are: an organic farm producing goat cheese, meat...
Gathered around the double will/wish to resist to a dominant/dominating/dominative system (capitalism) and to live collectivelly without following any dogma, religion, hierarchie , the members of Caracoles de Suc form an open and federative collective , connected with the world, the worlds… The name Caracoles refers to the Zappatists movement. The group of...
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