The goal

The goal of our trip is to get to Oceania in order to find the most suitable place for the setting up of a permaculture farm.

To accomplish this goal, the project contains the following steps:

« Discover, Mature, Raise Awareness, Learn, Share, Prospect, Achieve »

The route

L'itinéraire

What is Permaculture?

permaculture
“Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non material needs in a sustainable way.”

Find the land

Our criteria:

  • Political, economical and sociological stability of the country
  • Capability of integration into the local culture on a long-term basis
  • Access to non-threatened water 
  • Favorable climate for a perennial and diverse agriculture
  • Biodiversity 

Why Are We Using Bicycles?

Pourquoi le vélo?

We want to get to our destination in a way that will suit our ecological values, and thus cycling became the obvious choice. Additionally, it has a lot of positive aspects for the long travelling adventure.

Bicycle’s Advantages :

  • 5 times faster than walking
  • Any environmental impacts
  • Physical daily activity to stay healthy, particularly the heart
  • Transport providing true enjoyment of the landscape
  • Flexible vehicle allowing versatile routes 
  • Light and compact
  • Minimum maintenance
  • No dependency on fossils fuels
  • Positively influencesOur travel contains three different and complementary orientations

1. Exchange and Sensitize: Kokopelli

Our motivation pushing us to do this trip is due to our belief in the necessity of radical changes in our agricultural methods and mentalities towards life in all its forms.

The project is named « The rolling seeds » because we want to raise awareness to the people we will meet and the people following this website. We will attempt to show the importance of biodiversity and the emergency for people to reach self-sufficiency.

Our objective is to bring with us bags containing various vegetable seeds and to offer them to the people we meet. In doing so, we will spread our values and give thanks to the many people who help us. The objective is to encourage people to take part in directly producing the food they consume, and to encourage them to collect the seeds each year in order to sustain and raise their production.

For this mission, we will get help from the seed bank association named Kokopelli.
https://kokopelli-semences.fr/

2. Learning

wwoof

To achieve our goal, we must gain knowledge in permaculture and will spend four months working on permaculture farms through an exchange network called « WWOOF » (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms).

« The idea of WWOOF is to link people willing to discover and participate in ecological farms. » http://www.wwoof.fr

Selecting criteria for our farm :

  • Methods of production from permaculture techniques
  • Stable climate
  • Self-sufficient farm or close to self-sufficiency
  • Positive feedbacks from woofers

3. Self accomplishment and personal challenge

Discover
It is all about trying to immerge ourselves in other cultures, discover other ways of thinking and explore other horizons in order to open our minds as much as possible.

This travel will also be a way to enrich our personal experiences (and/thus) allowing us to confirm our motivations towards our choice of living.

Mature and Improve our skills 

Develop our creativity and reactivity in unknown areas or when facing unexpected events
Active meditation allowed by long hours of cycling and admiring the landscape.

Better our sociability by many different kinds of encounters with people.

Self challenge: we think we will need hidden energy to overcome physical and psychological difficulties.