ORGANIC VEGETABLE GARDEN
Get real-world experience in organic farming.
Learn practical skills from our master gardener in our 2.5 acre community gardens, orchards, and greenhouses. You will engage the entire process from seed to plate, including learning to cook your own produce as you help prepare meals for the Odiyan community. The Odiyan farm and gardens are part of our sustainability plan.
We are seeking hardy strong people who are used to physcial labor and have some experence with hand tools.
Physically the work includes lifting up to 50 lbs, being on your feet and moving throughout the day, repeated bending, squatting, and kneeling, working close to the ground for extended periods, getting down and back up repeatedly.
Hands-on training
- greenhouse germination vegetables and flowers
- bed preparation, direct seeding, and transplanting
- drip and sprinklers irrigation use and maintenance
- companion plants, medicinal plants, insect and bee friendly plants
- seeds: choosing vegetables and varieties
- using rototillers and other equipment
- composting and mulching
- harvesting: including cleaning, storing, and preserving (pickling, freezing, fermenting, canning)
- weeding, lots of weeding
In the Work-Study Program you recieve:
- Comfortable accommodation and nutritious vegetarian meals
- Buddhist classes, practice and study sessions
- A monthly stipend of $200
Minimum committment is 2 months, on up to 8 months (whole season).
Seeking new garden applicants for 2027!
Apply now to start anytime after Feb.1, 2027
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