Vestjyllands Højskole

Vestjyllands Højskole is a Folk Highschool that is located close to the sea on the West Coast of Denmark. The school offers non-formal education without any academic requirements for admittance and with no exams. Instead, our focus is on community building, art projects and sustainability. We have 50-70 students at a time, most are between 18 and 30 years old.

The school is famous in Denmark for its focus on sustainability and permaculture. The kitchen is certified organic, and the food comes from our own gardens as well as from local producers.  We produce most of our own energy, and we have a strong focus on recycling and regeneration.

We have five beautiful gardens which are all designed using permaculture principles. The gardens include a marketgarden, a forest garden, an alley cropping fruit field, a biodynamic garden that is run by local people and a tea and herbal garden. All in all, the school owns ten hectares of land which also includes a windmill, solar panels, a field for sheep and crops, an outdoor kitchen, a compost toilet and tiny houses that are built by the students of local and reused materials.

Among the subjects at the school, we have classes such as dance, music, regenerative farming, ceramics, textile crafts, sustainable building, wood work, permaculture, art, and performance writing. As a volunteer, you will be working in the garden, but in your spare time you will have the opportunity to take part in some of the above mentioned activities as well. You are also welcome to use most of the workshops in the evenings.