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Organic Farming and Livestock

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The experience

Farming and livestock using sustainable and environmentally friendly methods**: avoiding harmful chemicals, focusing on microbial technology and organic fertilizers, crop rotation, and biological pest control. Livestock are raised in humane conditions, avoiding growth enhancers, and fed organic feed and water. These practices promote soil health, biodiversity, and ethical food production.

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

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

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

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

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

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

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

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.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

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

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 55 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Tour To Experience Farm Life and Exchange Local Culture
(BIO R&D FARM - 2024)
- Participants are covered 03 meals/day according to the farm staff's regime, provided with free accommodation and personal equipment: pillows, mattresses, sheets, blankets, protective clothing, Protective shoes, work gloves, bucket hat and a set of labor tools when working on the farm. Maximum 2 people/room. (delivery in writing)
- Participants can use washing machines and detergents for free, participate in free parties, light parties, and other programs when the farm organizes them.
- Participants work 5 days a week and 8 hours a day. Only off Saturday or Sunday and one other day of the week but not the next day. (Participants must register for alternate days off)

Activities & Shift

Main jobs at Bio R&D farm:
- Microbiological organic farming: Land preparation, bed making; Cultivation of vegetables, tubers, fruits, flowers, and fruit trees; Plant care; Weeding; Sprinklers; Irrigation with organic fertilizers, biological products, and microorganisms to protect plants; Harvest; Preliminary packaging.
- Microbial pig and chicken farming: Composting and mixing microbial food for pigs, chickens, and black soldier flies; Feed pigs, chickens, and black soldier flies; Refresh and clean barns using microbiological processes.
- Production and preparation of microorganisms and biological products for farming, animal husbandry, composting animal manure with microorganisms, composting green manure and organic waste with microorganisms.
- Exchange, exchange the culture and lifestyle of indigenous Vietnamese people with the culture and lifestyle of other ethnic groups in the world

Rules

- Comply with general regulations of the farm and coordinate to properly implement the contents of the program. (document)
- Encourage participants to contribute ideas and initiatives for the development of the farm. (Work directly with senior management)
- Encourage volunteers to propose companion projects and share benefits between participants and farms under the farm's sponsorship of documents, images, seeds, soil, biological products, techniques, human…
For example: Project to grow over 50 m2 and sell products, product marketing project, collaborator project... (text).
- It is recommended that volunteers clearly understand the characteristics of Bio R&D as a micro-organic food production farm, so the main activities at the farm are production labor, bringing minimum efficiency to the farm. (according to assessment) the resulting price of the software)