The home is situated at a spot known as “Les Quatre Vents”, within the Chapelle-Montligeon, within the Perche. On the finish of a highway which regularly turns into a dust highway, a big crimson home stands in the midst of a hectare of land. “We’re in a white zone right here, and nobody can come and disturb us, throughout us, it is the forest“, explains Guillaume, 34, former Parisian and member of this very younger group.
They’re eight, aged 25 to 34, from throughout France. Engineer, graphic designer or pc guide, they didn’t all know one another, however nonetheless share the identical utopia. “All of us needed to be in concord with nature, with the residing and to expertise residing collectively“Says Victoria, simply in her thirties, a former engineer transformed right into a militant journalist. Victoria had met one other member of this staff, Jonas, throughout a tour of France by bike of options.
– Benjamin Recoverer
From this primary contact was born this undertaking, which the others joined little by little. Every part went in a short time, and right here they’re put in for a month. Right here, virtually all of them proceed their exercise from earlier than, by teleworking. A co-working room has even been arrange, with a 4G router system to permit ample connection.
Reside otherwise
It’s in October that operations start. They rapidly fall in love with this home, which all of them purchase collectively. “We had some cash put aside, and for the remainder we made zero-interest loans with people who needed to offer that means to their financial savings.“Clarify Victoria.”We wish to present that it’s attainable to purchase a home with a number of individuals, with out going to the banks“, provides Guillaume. They’ve shaped as a simplified cooperative share firm. One individual equals one voice, no matter what anybody contributes.
In the home there are guidelines. “It is like an enormous roommate however in the long run and we would like it to go effectively“, explains Guillaume. So each week they meet to debate the lifetime of the home. The primary goal is to undertake a life-style that’s as impartial as attainable. So the one heating is an previous wooden range in the midst of the lounge. “On common, it’s 15-16 levels in the home but it surely fits us effectively“, says Victoria. No heating and no fridge, it’s a cellar, half buried, which serves as a pantry.
– Benjamin Recoverer
In the end, they hope to be impartial from the water and electrical energy networks. So that they use a dry bathroom and have arrange a phyto-purification system within the backyard to filter the grey water from the home. As for meals, they discover themselves dreaming of self-sufficiency because of a floor ready for permaculture. “The previous homeowners already cultivated this manner. There we’ve got seedlings in greenhouses, and several other mounds that we’ve got coated with horse manure to plant in a couple of weeks“, explains Guillaume. A couple of hundred fruit bushes are additionally beginning to present their buds. Every part is there, prepared to offer.
Experimentation accelerated by the Covid
Within the vegetable backyard, not all are specialists. However additionally they come right here to be taught, to expertise. “We work in working teams, in the home, and we’ve got one within the backyard, which we’ve got known as the ‘jovial backyard’! Everyone seems to be collectively chargeable for its sustainability“, provides Victoria. In a month, the tasks are already flourishing. For instance, they think about themselves main market gardening workshops.
A 12 months after the primary confinement, it’s to be guess that this band just isn’t anxious about new restrictive measures. If the Covid was not the set off for his or her method, it accelerated it. “We’ve pillars of our system which can be collapsing, so the Covid disaster has accelerated our course of“, Victoria concedes.”All of this confirmed this have to return to the countryside. Every day, we expertise the state of affairs very otherwise. It appears needed and regular to us that tomorrow, we dwell collectively, we assist one another and we domesticate a sure resilience“, provides Guillaume.
They share their adventure on a facebook page, adopted by greater than 3000 individuals. A narrative that might encourage a couple of. They fairly often obtain messages of thanks and help. “It signifies that we had been proper to do it!“Guillaume concludes.
