Ecotopia 2025 First Stop: Hirondelles
We started the Ecotopia Biketour 2025 in Pontareuse, Boudry (Switzerland), on this beautiful farm, « The farm of Pontareuse » by the collective of Hirondelles (meaning swallows, like the birds). The farm is a squatted farm with a goal of providing a chance for communal farming and gardening for villagers, offering a place for people from the nearby asylum seekers centre to come and cook food (in their cozy outside kitchen), as well as offering a place to stay in emergency situations while also being a home and garden of the people from Hirondelles collective. We were welcomed and hosted by super…