Permaculture garden near Krakow needs some help

Permaculture volunteer opportunity – Hi, I am a permaculture gardener and herbalist. I grow vegetables, berries, fruit trees, many flowers, medical herbs and tomatoes in a greenhouse. I also preserve for winter and make my own vinegar (many types), tinctures from medical herbs, dried herbal teas, creams etc. I live in a natural house: strawbale and clay and have 1 dog and 2 cats.
I need some help with gardening: preparing the beds for vegetables, herbs and flowers, weeding, watering tomatoes; picking the vegetables and fruits for food preservation for winter; picking the herbs: drying herbs, making vinegars.
I can teach all of these activities. Can also teach some herbalism, wild edible plants, and food preservation.
Can also assist with sightseeing in Krakow the most beautiful city in Poland and a very tourist city.

What category best describes your hosting arrangement? 🏡

• Private/Individual/family

Location – Where is your volunteer project located?🌏

Poland, near Krakow city 📍

What are you looking for help with?

• Farming/Gardening 🌿🐄

What’s the mission of your community? 🎯

I strive for complete self-sufficiency: in food, energy, water and medicine. Well, I am already 100% self-sufficient in water: own a well plus rainwater harvesting, and produce my electricity in photovoltaic panels. And I grow my natural pharmacy 🙂

My passion is herbalism and growing medicine plants, always searching for interesting species possible to cultivate in the Central European climate.
I can teach volunteers all of these.

Restrictions ✍

Non-smoking people please, non-allergic to cats, because I own two.

How many volunteers could you host? 🎎

I can host one volunteer or a couple at one time.

When do you usually need volunteers? 📅

• April to November

How many hours of help per day? ⏱

• 4-5 hours of help per day

How many days of help per week? 🌒

• 5 days per week – 2 days off

Note about the volunteer work and other expectations 📝

It would be nice if a volunteer had some experience in gardening

Are accommodation and food included? 🏠🍜

Yes, we offer food and accommodation

What type of accommodation can you provide? 🏕

• Private Room 🔑

Diet – nutrition information 🥗🥤

I can accommodate vegetarian or vegan, if a volunteer can cook that’s great!

Fee transparency 🆓🔍

• No fees

VISA SUPPORT – Are you able to assist with visa support, and information, or provide invitation letters? 🛂

No! we cannot help with Visa/invitation letters – similar requests will be ignored. ❌

Volunteers’ benefits 🏆🏅

Cultural exchange, learning herbalism, wild edible plants, self-sufficiency, and experience staying in a natural house.

What are the available activities during free time? 🚴🚣🦒

Tour to Krakow, possibility of horse riding nearby, cycling, walking to forest /woods (300 m away from garden)

Language 🗣🇬🇧

English, Polish

Geography 🌳

Central Europe, Poland, Krakow – Winter is winter with snow and frost (sometimes). Summer could be hot even 30 C usually about 25 C
beautiful spring and colourful autumn

How to get to your site ✈ 🗺

by plane to Krakow to the airport or train to Krakow then train to Słomniki (25 minutes from the Main train Station in Krakow)

Is there internet access? 🌐

Yes!

CONTACT DETAILS 🔍📧

If the prospect of participating in this volunteer exchange program in Poland piques your interest, we invite you to reach out for further details about our host.

Simply drop us an email at voluntouring.freelist@gmail.com, providing a brief introduction about yourself, or a CV + photos.

Please, ensure to include “Permaculture volunteer opportunity Near Krakow” in the subject line. We will promptly respond, furnishing you with the contact information of the host to facilitate your next steps.

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