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Volunteers Opportunities
Apprenticeships
The volunteers will be placed with an individual farmer to learn his/her methods of production. For these programs it is expected that the volunteer will work with the farmer for an entire season to get a strong understanding of the methods. There will be some opportunity to compensate him/her for the time spent working. More information about each subject of interest is available upon request.
1a. Grape Growing
- Time Period: April - September/October harvest.
- Description: Volunteers will help with the daily tasks for maintaining vineyards including: Soil management, plant care, pruning, scouting (locating pests and finding appropriate methods for control)
1b. Olive Tree Cultivation for Production of Edible Olives and/or Olive Oil.
- Time Period: October - February harvest
- Description: Volunteers will help with the daily tasks for maintaining vineyards including: including: Soil management, plant care, pruning, scouting (locating pests and finding appropriate methods for control).
1c. Husbandry for Milk, Yoghurt, and Cheese Production
- Time Period: April - September
- Description: Volunteers will help with the daily tasks for maintaining herds including: Feed production, disease diagnosis and treatment, shearing and/or milking.
1d. Herbal Collection and Preparation
- Time Period: April - September
- Description: Volunteers will help with the daily tasks for collecting and producing herbal remedies: Plant identification, collection and preservation (drying) methods, essential oil and tincture processing from preserved plants, application/use of oils and tinctures.
1e. Diversified Vegetable Production
- Time Period: January-December
- Description: Volunteers will help with the daily tasks for managing organic vegetable garden for volunteer use. (Note: All volunteers will be expected to assist with the daily farm work, since they will also be eating what is produced in the volunteer garden). They will also assist organic farmers on Creteto cultivate and manage their crops.
Planning daily activities for volunteer involvement, such as the following tasks: Planting, harvesting, irrigating crops, developing crop rotation, companion planting, crop planting and harvesting plan -as appropriate-, maintaining soil health though composting, green manure and other techniques. Emphasis will be given in the use of a special scientific soil kit that measures soil health.
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