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Help us with the cherry harvest in Italy

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The experience

A special moment to collaborate with a project focused on human, ecological, and spiritual research. A time to reconnect with nature and its rhythms, listen silently to your inner self, learn to collaborate in a team, create new human, ecological, and healthy relationships, have fun, exchange knowledge and hugs.
Throughout the month, a community life based on respect develops, and holistic activities and wisdom are shared.

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

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

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

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

Additional fee required

Amount: € 10 One time

Fee pays for: Donation to project

Description: It is necessary to pay the €10 membership fee to the Yana APS social promotion association in order to volunteer and participate in the activities. Valid for one year (expires every October).

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.

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.

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.

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

Requirements

Beginner English or Beginner Spanish

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

The cherry harvest at Jana is a special time.
Nature is lush and abundant, and the house opens its doors to welcome numerous volunteers and friends to dedicate themselves to this ancient work.

We will divide into workgroups guided by the elements—earth, water, air, and fire—to become participants and stewards not only of agricultural tasks but also of the space that hosts us and the community life.

The harvest will be accompanied by circle moments, sharing the word "palo," sacred prayer spaces, botanical teachings, songs, ritual fires, games, river trips, music, and lots and lots of joy and celebration of life.

The goal is to spend a Taurine month, enjoying the abundance of nature, the simple life of the countryside, and the beauty of the gazes and smiles that surround us.

Life and Mother Earth always provide us with everything we need, and we will honor their unconditional love through the simple and ancestral everyday gestures of our ancestors, who have always harvested herbs, flowers, and seasonal fruits as an infinite blessing.

WELCOME

Activities & Shift

ACTIVITIES
The volunteer work will be divided between cherry harvesting shifts, kitchen shifts, sales shifts at the Campi Aperti agricultural fairs in Bologna and nearby, and shifts for processing into delicious organic jams.

HOW AND WHEN
There are two shifts per day for each volunteer.
The harvest takes place from 7 to 11 AM and from 5 to 8 PM to avoid the heat (approximate times).
The fairs are mainly in the afternoon (some days also in the morning).

Rules

- VEGAN FOOD
At Jana, the food is vegan (with the exception of eggs from happy hens), organic, delicious, simple, and natural.
Breakfast is at 6:30/7 AM, lunch at 1 PM, and dinner at 8/8:30 PM.

- ACCOMMODATION
We ask participants to bring their tents.
There will be a spacious, shaded area to set up tents, an outdoor hot shower surrounded by rosemary, and a bathroom with all the amenities at the house.

If you cannot bring a tent, there is a very comfortable space in the shared dormitories.

- NO SHOES INSIDE THE HOUSE PLEASE

- RESPECT AND LISTENING TO YOURSELF, OTHERS, THE SPACES, AND NATURE