Ecological agriculture and community building in Mid-Coast Maine, USA

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  We are in the early stages of reviving a 200+ year old off-grid farm in Midcoast Maine, still largely focused on building up our infrastructure. Current residents of the farm include a dozen goats, 20 sheep, 19 chickens, 4 geese, and three colonies of honeybees. Visitors can practice regenerative farming skills, with a special focus on scythes and haymaking.
  
  None of the produce of our farm is for sale: it's all for home consumption and sharing with family and friends.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Cuidar de animais
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  O que é isso?
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Below is a list of the various skills volunteers can learn. Also happy to help folks learn English. I speak some Spanish, and would also be glad to learn other languages from visitors. Longer term volunteers may have the opportunity to design and maintain their own garden.
  
  ...how to use and maintain a variety of hand-tools, especially the scythe.
  ...how to make leafy loose hay, far more palatable and nutritious than any hay that can be bought.
  ...how to milk goats and sheep, on a stand or in the field:
  
  other skills volunteers can learn:
  gardening
  cheesemaking
  pollarding and pruning trees for fruit, fodder, firewood, and lumber
  rationally grazing livestock for maximum animal and pasture health
  slaughtering and butchering birds and mammals
  pruning, propagating, harvesting, and otherwise caring for a variety of fruiting trees and shrubs
  beekeeping
  making hard cider and mead
  trimming hooves

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  Ajuda

  We would love carpentry help on our house and barn. When the ground isn't frozen there is lots to do shaping and planting earthworks (berms and swales on contour). There is haymaking beginning in June, slowly decreasing as the season goes on. Lots of possibilities for gardening between May and October. Apple harvesting September-November. None of the produce of our farm is for sale: it's all for home consumption and sharing with family and friends.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Intermediário

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  Este anfitrião indicou que tem interesse em compartilhar seu idioma ou em aprender um novo.
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  Acomodação

  There are sometimes a couple extra beds in the house we are building, but folks are also welcome to camp out.
  We can share milk, meat, and eggs from the farm, as well as seasonal fruits and vegetables from our garden and orchard. We can provide some fruits and vegetables from our local co-op, and staples like flour, rice, oats, butter, etc.
  There will be frequent shared meals and volunteers are also welcome to use the kitchen for cooking.

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  Algo mais...

  Our farm abuts a 96 acres pond as is surrounded by conservation land. There are wonderful opportunities for swimming and canoeing in the pond, exploring the bog, and hiking the mountain across the pond. We are also only a couple of miles from Penobscot Bay. There are lots of cultural activities nearby in Belfast, Camden, and Rockport, and more great hiking throughout the coastal mountains. We drive to Belfast frequently and are happy to offer rides.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Pode aceitar animais

  Este anfitrião está aberto a aceitar viajantes com animais de estimação.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  2

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  Meus animais / animais de estimação

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