COOPÉRATIVE CRAVIROLA

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travelling by communities and ecovillages

COOPÉRATIVE CRAVIROLA

www.cravirola.com

This is a community and cooperative with about 10 people 20-40 years old, mostly men. It´s placed in the Alps, in the south-east of France, very near the Italian border, and it´s necessary to walk about 10-15 minutes by a path which only the tractor can drive it. Practically there aren´t neighbours around, but pretty landscapes with forests and mountains.

The main activity and income is making goat, sheep and cow cheese. Those different milk and products (diverse kinds of cheese, some with spices, incredible cheese cakes...) make the customers buy something probably. Usually they sell in the markey of Cannes and they also go to fairs and markets both in France and in Italy. The work with cheese means most time to clean tools and dairy, to turn the cheese and, of course, to feed the livestock at the surroundings, to take care of the stalls and to milk mechanically.

Other tasks are agriculture and transport with the tractor from the vehicles parking to the farm and vice cersa.

Both main common house and guest room are pretty and comfortable. There are phone and internet access. They speak French, and some English too. Omnivorous diet. Apart from livestock, there are cats and dogs.

It´s an established project, although in that moment they were in process of moving to the centre of the South of France because of several reasons (isolation and difficulties to do leftist social-political-cultural activities in the region).

TRAIN: La Brigue (5-10 km., line Niza-Tende)

STAY: 7-13 May´06

It appears in Eurotopia

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