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Do you think about exploring mountains in India?

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The experience

We live in a picturesque village at the foothills of the Dhauladhar mountains in India. Kandbari village is fast acquiring reputation for hosting many alternate thinking individuals, families and institutions. Construction on our mud/bamboo/stone house is just coming to an end and now we are planning to start landscaping and starting an organic food garden and a kitchen. My primary interests revolve around developing the landscape around us.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

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

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 4 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers

Description: volunteers contributes 300 rupees per day to cover expenses for food maintenance of help us to manage property expenses.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

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.

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

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Hindi

Between 18 and 50 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

European Union Passport

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are also planning to start a kitchen where we intend to offer healthy food options like millets, fermented/malted food, raw food, junk free prepared food etc. This would cater to the people who live in the area and visitors. My husband, Rahul, has also just embarked on a food business wherein he is trying to create junk free offerings to customers. Finger millet biscuits are their first product which would be launched in September, 2019.

Activities & Shift

We invite people to volunteer with us on one or more of the following possibilities :

1. Food garden: Ideation/planning/laying out (based upon permaculture principles), initiating organic compost/pesticide making, planting vegetables/fruit trees/herbs etc., landscaping, plastic waste management.

2. Low cost outdoor kitchen: Planning the kitchen layout, helping with the construction, building a low cost rocket-stove fired oven, fuel efficient wood stove, helping develop/fine-tune recipes, developing marketing plan.

3. Food enterprise: Streamlining production, storage and sales operations, marketing strategy, discovering and adapting new recipes/products esp. for raising nutrition levels, outreach with farmers for sourcing tie-ups and initiating organic farming, attending local fairs for promoting our products.

Rules

Quiet hours : 11 PM to 6 AM (No loud parties and music are allowed)
Smoking is not allowed indoors
The volunteers have to segregate their waste in the two dust bins provided at the Hideaway. The degradable garbage has to be dumped in the compost pit and the guests are requested to take back their plastic waste to where it can be disposed responsibly.