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Waitati
All Year: Mostly Sept - April
Area (ha): 20
Persons: 1-4
Category: Organic Farmstay
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Host ID: 4938
Region: Otago
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Last Updated: July 31, 2010
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Organic Status: Permaculture Organic
Book now for September 2010 to April 2011.
We host *Premier HelpX volunteers willing to love Harmony and be loved by all Souls at Harmony. We offer basic shelter and volunteers provide most of their own food though she is growing as much as she can to feed them. This means that a vehicle is useful to get into town (13.5km) and back.
This is different from the traditional exchange. Harmony's exchange is much more. She is willing to teach like-hearted Souls love for All Beings. Mostly she calls her student guests interns and has them for 6 weeks or more, but volunteers may stay for as little as two weeks (minimum). It takes at least that long to get to know her a little.
We are conscious loving relationship with All Beings. She is native NZ bush, listening to three delightful creeks, walking 5km of contemplative trails, taking in panoramic views from clearings, and learning more about deep ecology, spiritual ecology, forest gardening, permaculture, sustainable energy systems, and earth building.
She is living green, sustainable, with a small footprint. Composting toilet, cob-fire bath, rain, and creek water, dining outdoors when the weather is fine, grinding flour on hand-powered stone mill, and baking your own bread. Keeping healthy with and helping collect herbal medicines and home-grown veges. Helping build and maintain trails. Working consciously with devas, elementals, animals, birds, people, and All Beings. Sleeping in a cob-earth building, in your van, or on a tent-site. Local students may go home for evening meals, overnight, and breakfast.
Work in our forest gardens learning the principles and practice of permaculture, forest gardening, organic gardening, and medicinal herbs. Learn how to build eco-friendly buildings with cob earth building, bio-safe preserved timbers, poles, and rock foundations.
We have interns, volunteers, and students attending weekend courses. All are keen to learn and have a great deal of fun.
Read about each below and let us know which you would like to be, your personal interests, skills, and goals and we will discuss with you how we, in turn, can help you.
Teaching takes place on many levels. Rest is an important part of learning. Work averages 4 hours or more a day. It is often for full days with full days off. You supply own food. Wood-fired cooking facilities provided. No fridge/freezer.
Volunteers:
Volunteers need to be fluent speaking English and we especially value those with building, electrical skills, and trail maintenance skills at any time of year. Organic gardening experience is especially needed for clearing and weeding trails and garden tidy-ups in September and April.
Volunteers stay for at least 14 days.
Come join us and work consciously and sustainably with All Beings!
Internships:
Interns come, pay a fee that is refunded upon successful completion of their chosen research project, work, learn, research a topic of interest, and make a record of it for the benefit of others.
Whatever their choice of study project interns are learning aspects of being a human deva - a carer for all beings from atoms in the air, to plants, animals, and planets; and learning to communicate with all Souls.
Reseach Topic areas include: 1) Conscious Living with Devas, Elementals, Plants, Animals, Self, and Spirit 2) Forest Gardening 3) Herbal Medicine 4) Native Forest: Guardians and Monitoring 5) Sustainable Building and Energy Systems 6) Organic Trail Making and Maintenance. Volunteers can also focus their work on their choice of any of these same subjects.
Student Courses:
See our "Courses" page for Earth Building and Cob Plastering course details.
See both our website and blogs to see how we can teach you what you are truly interested in learning and contact us, with details of your interests and background, by email 10 days or more in advance.
Invercargill Passenger Transport to/from Dunedin stops 2.5km from gate three times daily, Mon-Fri. Details are in the back of the Dunedin City Council bus timetable. Students may prefer to have their own transport for food shopping in the city (13.5km away), bicycles are available for loan. There are only mobile phones and free wireless (not WiFi) broadband access.
* As non-premier (non-paying) Hosts we cannot contact non-premier volunteers.
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