Organic Farm Garden in rural Buddhist community
Sonoma County, Northern California coast, 100 miles north of San Francisco
Year-round
Posted: Aug 28, 2024
Vegetable Gardener
Odiyan Buddhist Center
Location
California
Wages/Pay
Volunteer
Experience Level
Some experience required
Job Start Date
Starts immediately!
Learn new skills in gardening and farming, live in a community of like-minded people, eat homegrown vegetarian food, help with cooking and food preservation. Includes Buddhist classes, study and practice, mantra and more.
Seeking people passionate about getting their hands in the dirt and learning the arts of growing, cooking and preserving home-grown food. You need to be strong, able to bend, lift up to 50 lbs., be on your knees, engage manual labor for hours a day. You work with our head gardener gaining experience with vegetables and herbs.
Benefits:
Free home-cooked vegetarian meals and beverages
Free housing in a large room with a balcony, one roommate
Living allowance of $200 per month/$300 after one year..
Free WI-FI and domestic phone calls
Free skill training
Access to a healthy setting of nature, hiking trails, wide-open spaces, sacred beauty, fresh air, clean water, and nutritious food
Opportunities for meditation, mantra, Buddhist practices, and classes.
REQUIREMENTS:
You are strong, able to do manual work for hours each day, and work with small gardening machines and tools.
You can make a minimum commitment of 4 months.
This is a unique opportunity to live within a long-standing Buddhist community. The way of life at Odiyan is a retreat-like environment dedicated to meaningful work. You will also participate in kitchen work, cooking and preserving, and helping with the upkeep and beatification of the Center.
For an 'inside' view of Odiyan, see photos and videos on Facebook Instagram TikTok
How to Apply
To Apply:
Email Head Gardener Marcos
Minimum age is 21
We cannot accept children or animal companions.
We request all new resident volunteers be vaccinated for covid -19