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Waitati
All Year: Mostly Sept - April
Area (ha): 20
Persons: 1-6
Category: Organic Farmstay
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Host ID: 4938
Region: Otago
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Last Updated: February 7, 2010
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Organic Status: Permaculture Organic
Like to stay two weeks(minimum) or more in mature native NZ bush, listening to three delightful creeks, walking 5km of contemplative trails, taking in panoramic views from clearings, and learning more about permaculture, sustainable energy systems, ecology, and earth building?
You will be living green, sustainable, and 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 in the Deep Ecology and Spiritual Ecology way. 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 is often for full days with full days off. They supply own food. 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!
See the following for more details:
Volunteers: www.gemstonetherapy.info/volunteering.htm
Internships:
Interns come, pay a fee that is refunded upon successful completion of their chosen research project, work, learn, and research a topic of interest, and make a record for others to benefit.
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.
See the following for more details:
www.gemstonetherapy.info/internships.htm
Student Courses:
Earth Building Workshops page of our website for course details for paying come and go students.
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.
See the following for more details:
www.gemstonetherapy.info/courses.htm
Finding Harmony:
www.maps.google.co.nz: Search for "Harmony Waitati"
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's free bus timetable. Students may prefer to have their own transport for food shopping in the city (13.5km away), bicycles are available for loan.
Love,
David, Lorraine, and Harmony Farm
www.gemstonetherapy.info/allbeings/stories
www.gemstonetherapy.info/harmony/stories
www.gemstonetherapy.info/miracles/
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