Help out at Pottery Farm near Chandigarh, India

India

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2021

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Description
There are two types of projects here:

1. Pottery: We need guest management and retreat management volunteers from March to October each year. These are for 10 day retreats where people come to enjoy pottery and other workshops. Please see the work required in the details below.

2. Organic Kitchen Garden: We need volunteers to help in the organic kitchen garden, where we grow and deliver fresh veggies to subscribers to the kitchen garden produce. Please see the work required in the details below.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
General Maintenance
Farmstay help
Help with Eco Projects
Animal Care
Hospitality/Tourism
Art Projects
Help with Computers/ Internet
Teaching
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You could learn about organic kitchen gardens, management of a pottery studio and the villa, guests, hospitality, hand-on projects etc. We will also obviously mutually learn from interacting with each other.
Help
We need help in these areas for Pottery:

-Guest management, check in, check out, payments, feedback, general help
-Villa management, getting rooms prepared, cleaned etc
-Villa repair and maintenance
-Pet care, bathing, training etc
-Pottery studio management and maintenance
-Photography & marketing of our retreats
-Email management (sometimes)
-Design, creative projects within the property

We need help in these areas for Organic Kitchen Garden:

-Gardening supervision
-Vegetable harvesting and quality check
-Repair and maintenance
-Playing with and exercising the 4 dogs on the property
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Hindi: Fluent
Accommodation
You'll be staying at the villa itself, in a twin sharing bedroom which is air conditioned and has shelves for storage. Vegetarian meals are part of the agreement, shared in the common kitchen with the guests.
What else ...
Most of the staff on the farm works from 8 AM to 5 PM so you can spend 4-5 hours working with them on your duties.
You can visit the city as and when you like. There is a lot o interesting architecture in Chandigarh, which was designed by the French architect Le Corbusier.
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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18/03/2020

Left by Workawayer (Andre) for host

What a nice time..! Even this was my first workawaystay it could not start better and I got the idea of helping out with some tasks and meet nice people from all over the world. I stayed there arround 2 weeks, worked in the garden on some planting beds and painted trees with lime which had something meditational.:) At all the property is a very… read more

(Excellent )

01/02/2020

Left by Workawayer (Ramona & Jens) for host

We stayed a bit longer than 2 weeks here and the time there was exactly what we needed after a long time on the road. We enjoyed the nature, our work in the fresh air as well as the company of the 4 farm dogs. Especially we got to know a lovely family as well as some of their friends and employees.
We had free hand in designing raised beds to… read more

(Excellent )

13/08/2019

Left by Workawayer (George) for host

It was such a pleasure to visit the Farm and stay here for a month. What a peaceful and welcoming farm it is, and what a wonderful set of people, from Anuja, Anya and Ada to Raksha and all the farmers. Anuja gave me a price of the beautiful garden to work on with full autonomy which was great fun. I got the opportunity to apply many permaculture… read more

(Excellent )

05/04/2018

Left by Workawayer (Saira) for host

I had such a great time here. Meeting guests from around the world, painting daily, and hanging out with the family on weekends was such a joy and a nice break from some of the big hectic Indian cities I was in before. Anuja and Atul have an amazing vision for the studio, and I really enjoyed getting to hear this family's story. You have a lot of… read more

(Excellent )

03/02/2018

Left by Workawayer (John & Jonah) for host

Atul is a great man :)

(Very good )

03/01/2018

Left by Workawayer (Susana) for host

This Art Stay is an awesome place.
I was there for 2 week and i could enjoy the art work, the nature, the garden, the really good food, and the most important thing: I meet a woderfull family who help me and opened their arms for me.
I was so lucky to found this workaway, and it was a very nice experience. I miss them. I miss theis place. I miss… read more

(Excellent )

02/01/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Susana)

One of the most hard-working workawayer we have come across. Susana was a wonderful person to have around who worked diligently. She painted two sets of lockers and two walls while she was here along with making crafty tidbits that could be used as decoration around the place. She really did add a pop of color to this place and left a huge mark!

(Excellent )

02/01/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Annemarie & Matthew)

Anne was such a sweet person, although she only stayed here for a few days she managed to paint an entire wall in that time. She did an incredible job of it and we walk by the wall every day now and think of her. Thanks so much!

(Excellent )

02/01/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Shane)

Shane was an incredibly fun person to have here. He helped us put a lot of our processes in place and streamlined standard operating procedures for us. He was really helpful around the studio where he pitched in to prepare glazes for pottery and make beds for the stay and contribute wherever he could. Thanks for being a great workawayer!

(Excellent )

04/11/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Francisco)

Francisco was such a great person to have around to help out! He took care of the guests in our hostel beautifully and took a lot of the work off of my plate. Not only did he pitch in on our various landscaping projects at the hostel, he also did quite a bit of photography for our social media content as well. An amazing person to chill with who… read more

(Excellent )

02/11/2017

Left by Workawayer (Francisco) for host

This is such a quiet, artsy spot to arrive and just calm down. It provides you with lots of space to work on your own projects, to manage and hang around with guests, to develop some online marketing skills, to have a go at photography or cooking, to work on the garden, do yoga, meditate, and to just have a nice time among exotic birds. The staff… read more

(Excellent )

15/09/2017

Left by Workawayer (Zeba) for host

Two thumbs up and highly recommend this place to any workawayer within the radius of 1000 kms of this place. It was wonderful to get to know the family, they are the kind of people that you would be friends with, no matter where you meet them. The staff is extremely cooperative and the doggos are edible!!! The best part is that you don't have a… read more

(Excellent )

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