🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🥕 Organic Vegetable Gardens and Fruit Orchard at an Ecovillage 🍎

Description

Organic Vegetable Gardens

Being outdoors and growing food for the community will be your daily task. As you start in spring you will experience a full growing season, from the seedling to the harvest. The garden team grows more than 50 different types of vegetables, fruits and herbs using different growing techniques and a variety of tools that you will learn.

Organic Vegetable Gardens + Fruit Orchard

Aside from the vegetable garden, we have some Fruit Orchards where we produce different varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries and berries. If you choose this placement, you will work some days in the vegetable garden and some days in the orchard. The main tasks of the orchard are pruning trees, cultivating, mowing grass and preparing trees for harvest, harvesting and storing of fruits.

Interested in getting your hands dirty and working with your whole body?

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

You will be part of the group of young volunteers called JuLe (German for “young people”) and live together in one area of the village (“JuLe-Platz”) creating your own living space together with shared caravans and kitchen. One afternoon per week by a team of experienced facilitators offers time and space to get to know each other as well as permanent young residents. Different methods will be used to work on inner processes and communication including fun and creativity.

Being in a very rural area, there's a bus stop connecting to Wolfsburg and other bigger cities from there.

Training during the activity

German linguistic support is provided as needed by the participants. There's two mandatory trainings organised by the German National Agency, On-Arrival and Mid-Term training. Depending on your level of understanding German language you're also able to join seminars onsite provided by the education centre.

Participant profile

Are you interested in a sustainable lifestyle? Or in immersion in an intentional community? Or in new work experiences?

Then please answer the questions in this form as we won't consider your application otherwise: https://umfragen.siebenlinden.org/index.php/168689

Questions? Please contact Lorena our volunteer coordinator for ESC: lorena.castro@sige.siebenlinden.org

More links to more information

Short interview of a volunteer from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u3NL-lsnEo

Video from another volunteer 2020 in German with English subtitiles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MDzWHFRkS4&list=RDLV2MDzWHFRkS4&start_radio=1&rv=2MDzWHFRkS4&t=2

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

From 01/03/2027 to 28/02/2028

Location

Sieben Linden 1, Beetzendorf, Germany

Deadline

No application deadline

Project code

2026-1-DE04-ESC51-VTJ-000401722

Topics

Looking for participants from

26 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇩🇪 Germany.