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  Cargonomia Summer Project

  Posted by Siyu Xie on June 2, 2026 at 12:45 pm

  Cargonomia, a degrowth cooperative in Hungary, has officially become a certified European Solidarity Corps Host and Lead Organisation.

  After more than 11 years of community-supported agriculture, cargo-bike logistics, agroecology, eco-construction camps, food processing, workshops, traineeships, low-tech experimentation, and many beautiful collective adventures between Budapest and Zsámbok… we are now opening a new chapter.

  This summer, in cooperation with Szatyor Egyesület, we will host our first ESC volunteering team together with our organic farm partner, Zsámboki Biokert, where the project activities will take place:

  • 25 July – 12 August 2026
  • 15 volunteers
  • camping in tents, community cooking, collective life

  Together we will explore:

  • eco-construction and adobe renovation,
  • agroecology and permaculture,
  • food processing and preservation,
  • low-tech practical solutions,
  • explore degrowth,
  • and the everyday practice of conviviality and solidarity.

  It is an invitation to live, work, learn, discuss, cook, sweat, build and reflect together around very concrete questions:

  • How can we inhabit territories differently?
  • How can we relocalise food systems and practical knowledge?
  • How can we create meaningful and joyful forms of collective life in times of ecological and social crises?

  More info and applications (deadline June 26.):
  https://www.szatyorgoesabroad.org/come-to-hungary/volunteering/2026-july-eco-construction-agroecology-camp-group-volunteering-in-zsambok

  This project is complementary to the many other ways to join and support the Cargonomia ecosystem:
  https://cargonomia.hu/join-us-new/

  And more good news soon: two long-term ESC volunteering positions in Budapest (6 months) will also be announced shortly.

  Feel free to share with people who may resonate with this adventure.

  All the best,

  —

  Vincent Liegey
  Co-auteur de Sobriété (La Vraie) : Mode d’Emploi et de Décroissance, Fake or Not (Tana Editions, 2023 et 2021).
  Ingénieur, chercheur interdisciplinaire, essayiste et conférencier autour de la Décroissance – Coordinateur de la coopérative sociale Cargonomia. Conseiller des Français de Hongrie.
  Co-author of the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (2025) and Exploring Degrowth (Pluto Press, 2020).

  Interdisciplinary researcher, lecturer and freelance writer on Degrowth, International Degrowth Conference Support Group coordinator.

  

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