Experience rural life and to stay, help and learn in a culture that promotes community living in Pune, India

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27.07.2020

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2021

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Description
We are a very unique and one-of-its-kind concept. The primary objective is to create a 100% carbon-negative, eco-friendly and self-sustainable organic village.

Our project is located just 85 kms from Pune, on a peninsula spread across 350 acres with around 8 kms of water frontage. It is located at a very serene location in Sahyadri Hill Ranges surrounded by mountains on all the sides and on the backwaters of Neera Deoghar Dam, Bhor, Pune.

It intends to conduct workshops on Sustainable & Integrated Farming/Natural Farming/Permaculture and Sustainable building construction with natural resources comprising bamboo, adobe, cob, wattle and daub, stone and mud, rammed earth, thatch etc.

We are on a mission to create an ideal place where people can lead a carbon-negative, eco-friendly and a self-sustainable life with a very spiritually vibrant atmosphere. The operations of the above mentioned activities will be partly managed by volunteers.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Bricolage et projets de construction
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Entretien général
Aide dans une ferme
Aide avec des éco-projets
Accueil / tourisme
Projets artistiques
Aide informatique / avec Internet
Enseignement
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
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Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
This will be a lifetime opportunity for you to experience the rural life of ‘Incredible India’ with us as a local & not a tourist and be an integral part of our colorful culture.

You will not only get an opportunity to stay, work and learn in a culture that promotes community living but your stay will help you discover your own self, amidst sheer beauty of the tranquil nature.
Aide
We need volunteers who can contribute towards the following activities:
• Integrated Organic Farming
• Natural Renewal Energy Creation
• Agro-based Industries
• Spiritual / Yoga Center
• Artist Village
• Rural and Agro Tourism
• Adventure Tourism
• Medical Tourism (for alternate medicines)
• Day-to-day Office Management and Operations

Volunteers will be provided basic hands-on training in their preferred choice of activity.
Volunteers will be expected to put in maximum 5 hours of work for 5 days in a week.
Langues parlées
English: Courant
Hindi: Courant
Marathi: Courant
Hébergement
• Volunteers will be provided free basic sustainable housing structures made of natural materials, on sharing basis with attached washroom
• Volunteers will also avail free common kitchen facilities serving simple, satvik and organic vegetarian meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) prepared from fresh in-house farm produce
Autres infos...
• Only passionate individuals ready to put in hard work should confirm
• Minimum expected stay is for 2 - 3 weeks
• Volunteers can learn many sustainable best practices and acquire artistic skills in their free time
• Consumption of alcoholic drinks, drugs and smoking are not allowed within the premises
Informations complémentaires
- Accès Internet
- Accès Internet limité
- Nous avons des animaux
- Nous sommes fumeurs
- Familles bienvenues
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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02.02.2018

Laissé par le workawayer (Mots & Lucile) pour l'hôte

We as a family of 3 including Mots, Lucile and 1.5 year Farhaan, spent 1 week at Organic Village in November 2017. (although we originally committed for 4 weeks)

This was our first workaway experience, and we wished we would have asked a few questions before deciding to participate as it did not exactly match our expectations. We learned along… read more

(Bonne )

04.12.2017

Laissé par le workawayer (Michael) pour l'hôte

We chose the organic village because we are interested to learn more about permaculture, spirituality and community living. Here is our feedback after a month of volunteering:

1. Accomodation and location: We slept in an open space with the other volunteers; it was fine for us since we like camping. We recommend bringing a sleeping bag, if you… read more have one. For the first 3 weeks we were together with an amazing guy and then 6 more people joined, so it became more fun :) The place itself is absolutely unique! Lushy green and very tranquil - you can go hiking, dip in the damp or just chill after work with a cup of chai. The nearest big city is Pune - about 3 hours of driving.

2. Community living: Vaibhav (the manager of the place) has the vision to create a village one day, a chain of organic restaurants, to offer tourist, spiritual and alternative medicine retreats in the future. For now there is no real community, it's rather his family, some friends and workers, who live in Saakaar. We found it really calm, with welcoming, chill atmosphere, even though we couldn't talk to all of the people, like the workers, who spoke little english. Some tourists were coming on the weekends, so even though the 'community' was small and calm, it was also kind of dynamic and more interesting.

3. Work: it was a bit chaotic for us, but after we shared our feedback with Vaibhav, he started giving us more detailed instructions and tasks. He is very open-minded and open for feedback! So, we prepared few plots for planting various vegetables (they were buying most of the vegetables from locals), which included digging, mulching the fields, seeding, fencing. We also drilled many bamboo cones, which were needed for natural building. Katie helped a bit in the kitchen, doing simple tasks like cutting vegetables. The working schedule was pretty flexible, the process - easy-going. If you want to contribute to a future community and to do some simple job, this is the place for you. We were hoping to participate in the natural building more, but there were workers and architects (very nice young guys!) doing this, so we could only observe the progress. There were no art projects going on.

4. Food: We loved it! The meals were cooked in the community kitchen with a lot of love and spaces :) Great variety, and a perfect place for vegetarians and vegans. The only animal products they use are butter, yogurt and buttermilk from their own Vedic cows. We missed a bit fresh vegetables and fruits, but overall it was really tasty food.

5. Spirituality and alternative medicine: Vaibhav and his family are into meditation and thought us some techniques, which we still use. We had also very interesting conversations with the Ayurveda doctor, who was staying in the farm as well. Enriching experience! Katya got an alternative treatment for her hey fever - medicine made out of cows urine and herbs, which helped her.

6. Weekends: We spend some time near the damp, chilling on a bamboo house, hiked and went to the nearest village - Bhor, where we found crazy dried fish shops :)

To sum up, this is a place with great potential and warm-hearted people, who have a big vision. Laid-back atmosphere, where you can experience rural life while doing a simple job.

(Très bonne )

21.10.2017

Laissé par le workawayer (Sean) pour l'hôte

This Is an extremely pure and peaceful place where you can learn about permaculture, ayurveda, meditation and Love. The future looks very bright for this village and the wonderful families that care for it! If you have the chance you should definitely spend time here!

(Excellente )

08.09.2017

Laissé par le workawayer (Neli) pour l'hôte

By far one of the most amazing things I have experienced on my travels. Not only did they treated us like guests but they put so much effort and gave us to choose what we want to do. The accomodation is also very good we were sleeping in nice earthship dorms (amazing experience) btw you can also sleep in a treehouse with an amazing view. The food… read more

(Excellente )

01.05.2017

Laissé par le workawayer (Charlie) pour l'hôte

This was one of the highlights of my trip so far. Kirty and Malind were so kind and welcoming. They really made the place feel like home and introduced us to everyone there. After they left the farm Vaibhav and Sonal took great care of us and treated us more as a guest than a volunteer which was really lovely.
There are so many projects happening… read more

(Excellente )

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