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From September through till May each year, we open our farm up to like-minded folks who are passionate about permaculture and regenerative agriculture. At the moment, we're focusing on our Wwoofing Program.
Wwoofing at Milkwood FarmWWOOfing is a way of volunteering on an organic farm in exchange for experience, knowledge and board. At Milkwood Farm, our woofers work with our on-farm crew to achieve whatever needs to be done on the Farm that week.
Wwoofer requirements for Mikwood Farm are: - Minimum stay 2 weeks.
- Holding a Permaculture Design Certificate or equivalent knowledge
- 8 hours work per day, 5 days per week.
- An excellent work ethic and a happy soul.
- Registered with Wwoof Australia.
As a Milkwood wwoofer, your contribution will be valued highly, and you will eat and sleep well. In exchange, we expect wwoofers to keep up with our farm crew. As a wwoofer, you will work hard alongside us at Milkwood Farm. You will also learn bucketloads and experience amazing, inspiring results and a great community. Current on-farm projects include: - Forest Garden Systems
- Organic Market Garden
- Organic Kitchen Garden
- Natural Building
- Establishing + maintaining animal systems
- Courses and Workshops
- Riperian Restoration
The work you will do as a wwoofer at Milkwood Farm is varied and strenuous, and not suitable for anyone with major physical limitations. At Milkwood, we are all committed to creating a functional, happy, multi-enterprise, best practice, viable Permaculture farm and education center. Food: We provide full catering, 7 days a week (with organic produce from the farm wherever possible) for all wwoofers with diets of omnivore and vegetarian. If you happen to be here during our cook's holiday or days off, you will be part of the cooking roster, with all ingredients provided. If you have dietary requirements are beyond omnivore and vegetarian, you will need to bring your own food to supplement. We are happy to supply you with your own outdoor cooking station if needs be.
Accommodation: is in our camping area (BYO camping gear). For more details on Milkwood Farm's facilities and our farm policy, see our Staying at Milkwood page. About attending courses: Wwoofers are sometimes able to participate in our on-farm courses, via negotiation. This depends on class size limits, availability, and what else needs to be done that day. If you particularly want to do a specific course while at Milkwood Farm, please book in as a student as this is the best way to ensure your place.
Getting to Milkwood: If you have your own vehicle, you can plan to arrive any day of the week. If you require a pickup from Mudgee Town (45 minutes drive from Milkwood Farm), we can pick you up at 4pm on a TUESDAY. Pickups on other days may or may not be possible, so please plan for Tuesday. Planning your time at Milkwood: we have a lot of wwoofer requests, but only limited spaces. We encourage applicants to plan ahead and also to add any references of recommendations you might have acquired from like-minded farms, institutes etc, as this will help your application. For an overview of what we're doing at the Farm at the moment, please see The Milkwood Blog.
>> Sound good? Hooray! Please contact us to apply.Please ensure you read our Farm Policy before applying. --------------------------------------- Thanks a lot! We're happy to welcome dedicated folks serious about making a better world. We look forward to meeting you.
Internships - next intake likely in Spring 2012, with applications open in Winter 2012. >> Join our mailing list to get notified.
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