Help out at Pottery Farm near Chandigarh!

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.

Type of help

Gardening
General Maintenance
Farmstay
Help with Eco project
Animal care
Helping with Tourists
Art project
Help with Computers / internet
Teaching

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, Hindi

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

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  Internet access

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  Limited internet access

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  We have pets

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  We are smokers

How many Workawayers can stay?

Two

Hours expected

Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week