Area: Leinster

Would you like to stay near the historic and beautiful sites of New Grange and the Hill of Tara, in County Meath, along with its rich history, there are beautiful gardens, walking trails, traditional music and dancing. The family are grown up but visit regularly; we have a dog and cat. You are offered your own room, broadband, and the usual household facilities, but no TV. This is a non smoking household. The house is 3 miles from the nearest bus but can do taxi runs a couple of times a week, quite happy to be a tour guide occasionally and will collect and deliver to Dublin Airport. We are trying to become more self-sufficient and are developing an organic vegetable garden, would like to compost more efficiently, build a chicken coop and keep the fruit bushes and trees in good shape, all of which need help. This would suit someone who likes gardening and has experience of pruning and general garden maintenance and who would like a pretty untamed garden to work with would be prefect. There is plenty to do and see in the area, from an nature/historical point of view but also we are only 40 minutes from Dublin city centre, which has something of interest for everyone. Check my calendar.

Area: Friuli–Venezia Giulia

We are a couple of 35 years old with two kids. We run a farm and a guest house in the hills of N-E of Italy. You will be treated as part of the family and introduced to the pleasures of the Friuli cultures ; )

Area: Kottakarai Village, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India

With the help of organic farming experts, community leaders and volunteers, we help start-up small vegetable gardens in village homes, provide seeds and training to local people to grow there own organic veg and fruits in their own premises. With this initiative local families get healthier food, they save money on purchasing from the market and above all we help them sell their produce at local shops and restaurants for a fair price. This generates extra income which will help them not just to raise there standard of living but start-up a co-op to produce primary resources, home and personal care products in a safe and sustainable way. By using permaculture methods, this program will help transform the entire village into a self sufficient local economy & restoring natural resources. Our long term goals to improve children's health, educate and train local communities, provide them with alternatives for planet friendly living and empower women to start-up their home based business units. Latest Volunteering Updates July 2012! Apart from our 'Two week volunteering opportunity' we are also introducing multiple choices to join the 'Green Gang' 'Live-in Permaculture' A unique experience of community living with permaculture design. You will play a crucial part in implementing the social economic design to improve the living conditions of the surrounding villages using permaculture. For more information please email us with the subject title 'Live-in Permaculture' *Minimum 12 weeks 'The Changemaker' Our ethical vegetarian food restaurant 'KofiBar' is now hosting a Social Enterprise incubation centre 'AuroConnect', we have only one available spot for this volunteering position, if you are passionate about food and are good at people's skills, this is for you! For more information please message us with the subject title 'The Changemaker', *Minimum 4 weeks 'The Superstar' We are now collaborating with other organisations and NGOs in the surrounding area to pilot a local economy model based on primary produce. If you are an explorer and would like to experience the life in rural India, you are our Superstar! For more information please message us with the subject title 'The Superstar', *Minimum 8 weeks 'Magical Portugal' We have a upcoming project at the 'Vale Das Aromaticas', a family farm in Sesimbra South Portugal. If you like raw experience living in a tent, eating farm fresh food, jumping in the blue sea but without electricity, you would love to be here! For more information please message us with the subject title 'Magical Portugal', *Minimum 2 weeks

Area: Pays de la Loire

We are renovating a stone house for 3 years, the interior is now livable and comfortable, we mostly work outside. Our field is composed of grass, fruit trees, a vegetable garden, a pond ... We are an ecological concern, compost toilet. Our written English is very bad, we use "google translate" to write this text, the English translation is very rough, sorry for that! We live in the countryside, quiet 5 minutes Châteaubriant city of 13,000 inhabitants with all shops, station ... We are 1 hour from the cities of Nantes and Rennes. We ourselves are people who practice the "couch surfing" and "workaway" (soon in Malaysia). We like the idea of unexpected encounters and exchanges. This allows to combine business with pleasure, to welcome people here and move forward in our projects. We both 27 years, we are curious of all cultures. I pottery (ceramics), I create sculptures and pottery, my studio is on the ground, my friend is a landscaper, he oversees disability to work spaces in a facility. We especially love traveling and nature. Notre anglais écrit étant très mauvais, nous utilisons « google translate » pour rédiger ce texte, la traduction anglaise est très approximative, désolés pour cela ! Nous rénovons une maison en pierre depuis 3 années, l’intérieur étant maintenant habitable et confortable, nous travaillons surtout l’extérieur. Notre terrain est composé de gazon, d’arbres fruitiers, d’un jardin potager, d’une mare… Nous avons le souci de l’écologie, toilettes sèche, phyto-épuration… Nous vivons à la campagne, au calme à 5 minutes de Châteaubriant, ville de 13000 habitants avec tous commerces, gare... Nous sommes à 1h des villes de Nantes et de Rennes. Nous sommes nous-mêmes des personnes qui pratiquent le « couch surfing » et le « workaway » (prochainement en Malaisie). Nous aimons l’idée de rencontres et d’échanges imprévus. Cela permet d’allier l’utile à l’agréable, d’accueillir des personnes chez nous et d’avancer dans nos projets. Nous avons 27 ans tous les deux, nous sommes curieux de toutes les cultures. Je suis potière, (céramiste), je créer des poteries et sculptures, mon atelier est sur place, mon ami est paysagiste, il encadre des personnes handicapées au travail en espaces verts dans un établissement spécialisé. Nous aimons particulièrement les voyages et la nature.