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Help us on our fruit plantation farm in Japan! :) :)

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The experience

We are looking for volunteers from April to October every year. For those who have international driver's permits will be much appreciated. We usually do a short interview from mid of January to let us know each other more. So volunteers can ask any questions about farm stay here during the interview. Kindly send your request for farm stay as volunteers if you are interested help at our farm.

What you offer

28 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

3 days off per week

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

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.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

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

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are growing various kinds of fruits and doing fruit picking as business. We are one of the largest fruit farms in Yamanashi and the largest fruit picking farm in Minami Alps City.

We ask volunteers for five hours help per day and two days off during a week, or 6.5-7 hours help per day and three days off. The working hour is about 25-28 hours per week, it depends on the weather. As we are very busy, volunteers need to take care of meals by yourselves on days off. On days off, volunteers need to do cleaning the whole dorm and facilities where you stay.

Activities & Shift

Usually volunteers start working from 8:30am, one hour lunch at noon time (lunch hour doesn't count as working hour). Work will be finished around 4:30pm (4 days of work and 3 day off).

Rules

Volunteers who bringing the international driving license can help to drive the truck from the dorm to farm. We work as a team, so we hope our volunteers can help each other when there are problems occur.
On the other hand, since our volunteers are from different countries with different background, there are some dorm rules/regulations that volunteers have to follow, aims to respect other volunteers, also to respect and learn Japanese cultures. We wish volunteers have a high sense of being hygienic, not to waste energy and water, being helpful and nice to each other.