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Live the Rural Experience and help on Our Horse Farm! 🐴

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The experience

If you come early in the season, the help required will consist in cleaning fields, feeding horses, fixing and painting fences, building shelters, preparing the campsite etc. During the Summer months, the main works consist in feeding and watering horses, cleaning the fields that are near houses, informing visitors about our work, preparing the horses and leading rides for the children. Since 2018 I have also started giving riding classes in ....

What you offer

25 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

1 day off per week

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.

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

Requirements

Fluent Greek or Fluent English

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We need help with the horses and also with some tasks in the fields during the spring and summer months. If you have some experience with horses you can help train them (ground work but no riding as our horses are "mini", ie. suitable only for small children) but if you don't have any experience in this field it's not a problem as we will show you what you need to know.

If you come early in the season, the help required will consist in cleaning fields, feeding horses, fixing and painting fences, building shelters, preparing the campsite etc. During the Summer months, the main works consist in feeding and watering horses, cleaning the fields that are near houses, informing visitors about our work, preparing the horses and leading rides for the children. Since 2018 I have also started giving riding classes in the morning, so experienced volunteers can also help handling the horses and helping the kids during the lessons. Very experienced and gentle volunteers only might also be trusted with one or more horses to train. Please note all training and riding is done bitless, and the training often has to be done earlier in the morning to avoid the hottest hours and be available when the visitors arrive.

Activities & Shift

You can also contact us if you have any special skills (photography, communication, translation…) which could be helpful to us in any way in our conservation programmes.
Greek-speaking volunteers will be used in guided tours and to inform those interested in the organization.

Volunteers at the farm help about 4-5 hours a day, 6 days a week. We expect you to be flexible on that (time and days), we do not want people who will run away at the end of the shift if there is still help required to do and it takes 10 or 15 minutes. We want to host people who are genuinely interested in the project and really want to help with it. In the Summer, volunteers are separated in two teams, one volunteering in the morning from 9:00 to 13:00 , the other in the afternoon from 16:30 to 20:30 . There is a possibility some volunteers to work two hours in the morning shift and two hours in the afternoon. These working times are subject to change if for example the working horses need to be fed earlier in the morning, so that sometimes one or two volunteers will be asked to do the feeding outside of these hours (they will then have a shorter shift that same day or another).Also volunteers at some stage might do volunteer work outside the farm,for the well being of the island. For example clean beaches or clear a path which people have difficult access.

Rules

There is organized camping facilities waiting for you in an olive grove right next to our farm and each volunteer will have their own tent (is not waterprood)(couples and friends may have to share a tent in the Summer when we have many volunteers), with 2 outdoor showers and 1 toilet in the camp . Our last attempt at building compost toilets in the camp wasn't exactly a success so anyone with experience is welcome to help with this :-) The tents have not proper mattresses ( we will provide a yoga mat for your tent, or you are welcome to bring your own camping mattress') but you will need to bring your own sleeping bag and/or sheets. (Of course you could bring your tent and mattress)

A simple breakfast is provided by us (bread, chocolate, honey) and we provide lunch at the taverna every day. Dinner is not provided but you can find a fridge, a microwave and essential cooking facilities at the campsite to prepare your own dinner'
No dinner

Volunteer might be asked to give a hand with very simple tasks at the taverna where we will have breakfast and lunch, such as sweeping the floor or setting the table