Thank you all for your interest in our farm project! We are chock-a-block like they say in New Zealand, which means full full full for Summer 2024. Sorry we are not accepting more volunteers until next summer.
Rick and Nels run this farm near Juneau. It is a beautiful, wet and wonderful piece of property, very remote (2 hour kayak from Auke Bay), no cars, very little electricity (solar power). We raise vegetables in raised beds, live outdoors all summer. We need wwoofers from May 5 to October 5. We have built a small timber frame cabin from timbers milled on our property. Accommodation for WWOOFers is an apartment above the woodshed or in a big wall tent in the meadow. Or if you prefer, you can bring your own tent and use one of the tent platforms. Hot tub under the stars, community kitchen, outhouse in the blueberry bushes. Work includes gardening, soil building, pioneering, building projects, carrying materials from the beach, firewood, and many other creative projects. Volunteers must enjoy the simple things in life, be quite fit, community minded, ready to rough it softly, love to work, be OK with living remote. 5 hours of work per day in exchange for really good vegetarian and Alaska wild food. Minimum stay 2 weeks. You need this much time to really get the feel of the place. Maximum stay is 6 weeks your first year.
We would love having you if you are the kind of person who wants a break from the internet and social media and is ready to really be open to the others on the farm. Our rule about your use of technology is that it should be your secret! :) Good dogs welcome, children not out of the question, no tobacco use whatsoever please. All are welcome, gay people especially so. Call ahead so we can arrange transport. I speak fluent English, Spanish, German, Hungarian, and dabble in French. I hosted over 20 volunteers last year and consider my volunteer community the true wealth of my project .Please be a morning person- we meet at 8 am for breakfast and discuss the day's work then.
Six rules of the farm:1. You are responsible for your own happiness- let others know how they can help you.2. Be kind and considerate to all around you- love is all you need.3. Respect all life here- if it is alive, let it thrive!4. Open yourself up to your creativity- respect past work but feel free to reinvent.5. Use work as a meditation- work safely! If you are not clear on how to use a tool, please ask before using it! If you are not enjoying the work you are doing, you are not adding good energy to the project.6. Avoid waste- reimagine everything's usefulness.
Organic methods: Hugelkultur, raised beds, compost.
Certifications: We don't sell much at all, so certification is not important to us.
Current projects: 25 raised beds to tend, 2 round wood timber framing structures in progress.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Methods or systems
Permaculture
Mentoring opportunities
LGBTQ+-operated
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
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