Area: Midi Pyrenees, Tarn et Garonne

We are Michael - English, Ruve - NZer who enjoy the French style of life. We retired early to manage the renovation of our 16th century chateau & although it's finished we would like a couple to help us with general maintenance, house cleaning and lots of gardening. We are situated in the Tarn & Garonne (Dept 82), approx. 100 kms north of Toulouse, 8 kms north of Caylus and 21 kms south of Villefranche de Rouergue. Parisot is a medieval hilltop village with a commune of 900 people. There are 2 bakers, a village shop, and a pharmacy. There is a small market every Friday morning. Life is very quiet and therefore Parisot will only appeal to couples with a car or those wanting a very rural situation - there is no public transport!

Area: Nord-Trøndelag, middle of Norway

We are a couple in the beginning of the sixties. Our alternative lifestyle, we have had for 20 to 30 years. We have a great interest in clean food and nutrition and alternative therapies. In 2009 we bought a small farm close to where we live. The farm is 300 acres. No animals. Most of it is forest area, but we have a range of 10 acres where we now are createing an outdoor arena for therapy and teaching, and for the use of natural and cultural based experiences in tourism. The residential house on the farm, is now totaly renovated and we will use it for courses, meetings and accommodation. At the farm there are also two smaller houses, and a boathouse on the waterfront. We place great emphasis on colours and their significance for us humans, and therefore we are in the process of establishing Colour-mound. We will also create an area for vegetables, one with herbs and a place with sow-benches for use in garden therapy (horticultural therapy). Harvesting and drying herbs is also relevant tasks. We are also running a garden, Colour garden, a few miles away from where we live. Here we also need help i May to keep it in working order. The 6th June starts Colour Mirrors International Conference in Norway, as we have the primary responsibility for this arrangement. This means a lot of work, but we look forward to meet people from many country. We are working a lot, but we would not ask people to do jobs we would not do ourselves.

Area: Piacenza

An organic farm surrounded by the nature , fields and grapes. It is a great and artistic place for people country oriented . It is a quiet place. During the free time you can visit many city of north of italy round here .

Area: Vesteraalen/Lofoten

***** Due to the high demand of volunteers we are fully booked until the end of JULY 2013 - Exception: a.) May - June: Strong & handy people who possibly might be able to operate an open boat. b.) Anytime: Skilled plumbers or concreters. ***** Our lighthouse is the only property on a small island in the Norwegian sea in the arctic part of Norway. We are about to build up the lighthouse as a special guestplace with rooms for rent, a cafe, a green garden with potato land and a herbal garden. Everything grown here is ecological. We are self sufficient with water, energy & transport. The place is unique, and so are the people coming here to help out gradually turning this place into a lighthouse with a big soul. I live here all year long, so volunteers are welcome any season. Thanks to the Gulf Stream the climate is mild and relatively warm - taken into consideration it is beyond the polar circle! Please see pictures and more info on our webpage, which you can ask for when applying.

Area: Fethiye - Turkey

:*:> Labour in your hands , love in your heart :: welcome to share . We are in south-west corner of Turkey , in Fethiye , a very lucky area with a generous sunshine , fertility , and beautiful scenery . We started our farm , The Prickly Pear , few years ago . Our 6-hectare-farm , where we try to make sustainable farming and experiment Permaculture and Natural Farming principles , is 45 km away from Fethiye . Our farm comprises arid , barren soil , dry landscape , all of which we intend to make more productive over the coming years . Mainly we have olive trees and newly planted fig trees , vineyard , variety of fruit trees . We have some ducks , turkey , and chickens sharing the life around the trees . We are in a very early stage of our farm , so , being a new farm , we have lots of things to do . Therefore , we need your different ideas , visions , perspectives and your participation . We are converting once so started monoculture olive orchard into a Food Forest , with the inspiration of Natural way of Farming , so , we are now planting some other fruit and non-fruit tress between the olive trees . Here we will be talking the Language of Nature and you will experience some principles of Natural Farming . I have dreams within reality or reality within dreams ; you can be part of weaving the dreams and reality . *** Accommodation : We have accommodation for you in our 10-room small hotel in Fethiye city ; Cam Hotel . We can accommodate up to 6 friends in our hotel , in high season you may have to share a room with a friend . We go to our farm almost everyday , do some work and come back to Fethiye for the night . Also , we sleep at our farm in kind of primitive conditions , sharing a room with all friends . Sharing Life : I do not call it ::volunteering work experience:: but ::sharing life:: ; learning from each others experiences , we design the life together , expand our horizons together , use our skills in a productive way , and contribute to the nature as much as we can . My philosopy is that we s h a r e our life here with you :: all kind of work , whatever it is ; all our food , whatever we have ; enjoy the life , whatever we can do - good or bad ; easy or difficult , a lot or a little , sweet or bitter ::: we share all kinds of tastes of life . we share our hopes and dreams and reality . Life is a very complicated perfect great joke :: if you have some sense of humour , if you have a smile at your face that comes from your innerself :: welcome . If your face wants to smile , let it / if it does not , make it . if you are easygoing and outgoing if you are full of energy to work and full of energy to enjoy the life at the same time if you are ready to practice or learn such a life if you are ready to share the life in all aspects if you are high on life ::: you are more than welcome . if you are generous to give (to the nature) (the nature) is more generous to give back to you . *** We housekeep our hotel together , work in the farm together , prepare our breakfast , lunch , and dinner together . There is no management , there is no manager , no workers here :: we are all equal . If you are ready for such a life style :: welcome . In our farm we water our trees , harvest products , design our field . As the Permaculture suggests , we try to design our life so intelligently in order to save some time and have more leisure to enjoy the life and the nature . My Family is Me , at the village the Family of Mustafa that we work together , the Nature , and if you like to be part of this dynamic family , You . Working hours :: we do not have scheduled hours . When we have some work to do , we work ; little or very late , we work . When we want to have free time , we have it . I hate to limit the life in hours . I hate the measures , calculations , accounts , weighing machines , scales ; I have broken all of them ; I try to hear the beautiful voice of the natural order . The perfect nature does not have weighing machines , only we have unjust scales . I do not smoke . You do not smoke . We do not smoke . With my all respect and love , smoking friends , I do really care about your health . As Permaculture suggests , problem is solution ; if there is a problem , then , definitely there is a positive solution . We talk about solving all kinds of problems positively , but we do not smoke . I do prefer you stay at least one week . We appreciate your participation for few weeks or consider long term stay . It is a good idea to have some good field shoes . Having good shoes , then we can start to walk or run , searching for life , searching for the road to the nature , that we have few main roads in our life and many thin paths that nourish us like the capillary roots of a tree . Create a capillary path here with the guidance of the perfect nature / share the perfectness of the nature / and , enjoy it . Your participation may include : * Experience Permaculture and Natural way of Farming * Help in the hotel * Help with web site design * Cooking * General Maintanence * Building * Starting and maintaining vegetable gardens * Helping with our few tourists * Animal Care * Siesta ( contamplating Permaculture design ! ) If you feel Labour in your hands and Love in your heart , then , there is certainly something that you can share . * Language :: Turkish , English , Spanish , and some French , very little German . Never mind all these languages ! Whatever language you speak , forget it , we try to speak the Language of Nature as our common language here . Be submissive to the Nature . Be in love with Nature . Listen to the Nature. Speak and listen to the Language of Nature . ====*=====*==== About Fethiye : You may enjoy the city life in Fethiye . Our hotel is just 5 minutes walk to the seaside where we have a very long promenade and many cafes and restaurants . Also our hotel is just 5 minutes drive to Calis Beach , the main beach of Fethiye , which is famous with her sunsets . When you are with us here , you have the opportunity to visit ::: * Oludeniz Beach , that is our world-famous beautiful beach , 15 km away from Fethiye . * On our way to Oludeniz Beach , we have Ghost Village – Kayakoy - , largely abandoned after a population exchange agreement signed by the Turkish and Greek governments in 1923 . Today Kayakoy village serves as a museum and is a historical monument . Around 500 houses remain as ruins and are under the protection of the Turkish government , including two Greek Orthodox Churches , which remain the most important sights of the ghost town . Most probably one day I will take you there to visit Ghost Village and touch the stones of the deserted houses , to feel the life and to sense that there is no death in life . * Saklikent , it is a wanderful gorge of more than 20 km long , it is just across our farm, 10 minutes driving . After we finish daily work at our farm , we sometimes award ourselves with a glass of beer , our feet immersed in freezing waters of Saklikent Gorge . * Many antique Lycian cities , like Cadianda , Xanthos , Letoon and Tlos . Tlos is very near to our farm ; you will have a chance to visit Tlos , most probably I will take you there . Enjoy sharing Organic Intelligent Life .