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*** We are currently seeking an experienced garden manager for the upcoming season and beyond. Wage will be based on experience, between $600-2000/mo plus room and board. Please reach out for more information!***
This is a wellness community that promotes ecological and spiritual health through land stewardship, organic cooking, yoga, and outdoor recreation. We operate on multi-generational farmland in Dorchester, New Hampshire, practicing methods of permaculture to cultivate a vibrant, edible landscape. Our volunteer program offers individuals an opportunity to grow and eat organic produce, practice cooperation and land-based skills, and cultivate a reciprocal relationship with the natural environment.
WORK
Workawayers are expected to work 26 hours per week, plus a minimum of 2-5 hours of cooking and cleaning per week. General help will make NH state minimum wage. We are currently hiring a full-time garden manager, please reach out with a description of your experience and work history to be considered for this role.
PLEASE NOTE Agriculture can be tedious! We do our best to offer a variety of meaningful work to volunteers; however, many tasks will require patience and persistence. Organic gardening means lots of weeding.
We have year-round work in animal care, housekeeping, construction, forestry, and woodworking. We can accept volunteers throughout the year, with limited availability during December-February.
Help can expect to contribute the following garden tasks by month:
February/March: soil mixing, seeding annual vegetables, herbs, and flowers in soil blocks, water and maintain seedlings daily, fruit tree pruning, maple tree tapping and sap collection
April: continue seeding, continue pruning, continue nursing seedlings, preparing fields for planting with soil amendments and bed shaping tools, remove grass roots from garden beds
May: finish seeding, finish preparing fields, begin planting
June: finish planting, weeding with hoes and by hand, daily watering and irrigation maintenance
July: weeding and daily watering, begin harvest of herbs and annual vegetables
August-November: harvest vegetables and herbs, food and herb preservation, clearing and haying fields for winter
MEALS
We cook with organic and locally sourced food when possible and can reasonably accommodate dietary restrictions. Please let us know your dietary needs and expectations you have before arriving. Most meals are vegetarian. Workawayers can expect to cook at least two meals per week for the house, and contribute to kitchen clean-up each night. Breakfast is self-serve from our kitchen; lunch and dinner are made for the whole house by one member.
We are located in a rural area! Staff can provide transportation to the farm from White River Jct, VT or Plymouth, NH for volunteers without a car.
During personal time, workawayers are encouraged to utilize on-site spaces: an extensive library,
woodworking shop, craft room, yoga room, and blacksmith shop.
Outdoor recreation enthusiasts can enjoy our proximity to: extensive mountain bike and XC ski trails, swimming holes, the Rumney crags, and Mt. Moosilauke. Rides can be organized within the farm to offsite destinations.
Ask us for our website url for more information and photos.Types of help and learning opportunities
Art ProjectsLanguage practiceHelp with Eco ProjectsGardeningDIY and building projectsAnimal CareFarmstay helpCreating/ Cooking family mealsHelp around the houseGeneral MaintenanceHelp with Computers/ InternetUN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Lots of experience helping in community to reach goals in gardens, construction, and educational programs and events. We host many classes and community events so there are many people to meet and share experiences. Many visitors per year from all over the world to tiny farm in New Hampshire.
Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Host has indicated that they will pay at least the minimum hourly wage of their country for each hour worked and that accommodation will also be provided. They are asking for help with a business or business activity. Contact the host directly via the site messenger for more information and details about the wage provided. Any arrangements should be agreed in advance with your host.
Help
Campground maintenance. guest check-ins, outdoor gardening, forestry, construction, cottage industry and animal husbandry are primary activities. More woodworking and crafts in the winter.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.Accommodation
Primitive shacks, tree-houses, barns, and outbuildings. Tent platforms and indoor options too!
What else ...
We can pick you up from White River JCT, Vermont and Plymouth, New Hampshire bus stops. Lots of hiking, biking, rock climbing and skiing in the area.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
we have wifi and decent connection for hot spots
Space for parking camper vans
we operate a campground with van and tent camping
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
25 hours/week and some community chores