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A Helping Hand in the Garden and Vineyard

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The experience

Come join our creative community on an ecological farm in Germany! We need helping hands who will work with our team 5 days a week for 5 hours per day. After pruning in the vineyard or planting vegetables in the garden, we all eat a home cooked meal together under the walnut tree. The afternoons are spent relaxing with a gorgeous view of the Alps, or traveling to nearby regions. You are free to develop your creativity here and find new hobbies!

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate German

Over 20 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our program asks volunteers for 5 hours per day, 5 days a week. This time is spent working alongside our very friendly and open team. We work together in the vineyard and in the garden pruning vines and harvesting vegetables! In the spring, our saplings are just beginning to grow and we experience the beginning of the new season. In the summer, we enjoy a colorful array of fruits and vegetables. At midday, we all sit under the walnut tree together and enjoy a home-cooked meal made with veggies straight from our garden. You are welcome to experiment with cooking and baking anytime in our fully-stocked kitchen! Once a week one person is responsible for cooking for the team, which is quite fun. In the afternoons, volunteers are welcome to hang out around the farm, start creative projects in our many workshops, explore the region, go swimming, anything you desire! The farm is community supported, so this is the place for you if you want to become part of a wonderful community, learn about ecology and sustainability, practice German, and make new friends! On the weekends we invite our friends from the region and dance the night away in the barn.

Activities & Shift

Volunteers are expected to work 5 days a week for 5 hours a day. Everyone is totally free after lunch! Sundays and Mondays are totally free. We are a short distance from the train station that can take you anywhere. We also have bikes to explore the region and the many lakes.

Rules

We expect everyone to be respectful of others, as we highly value our community! We have a very international team here both permanently living on the farm as well as the volunteers who stay here. We are a vegan/vegetarian farm, so open-mindedness can also be important when coming to a new place! Lucky for us, our volunteers always leave as our new friends.