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Organic Farm Projects

Asia | Africa | Australia/Oceania | Europe | North America/Caribbean | Central America | South America

Help out for a couple of days during harvest time or stay all year its upto you!

On organic farms expect to meet many new faces and to work and play hard! 

Asia


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Organic Farm
Placement number: 0148
Location: India
Sradha is a retreat centre located in Muthalamada near Chulliar Dam in the Palakkad District of Kerala. The centre is set in the ambience of our organic farm, Anuragam at the base of the Nelliampathy hills falling along the southern edge of the Palakkad gap.
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Farm under the gaze of Mt. Fuji
Placement number: 0194
Location: Japan
"To inspire and educate the citizens of Earth to create their own environmentally sustainable lifestyles and businesses, through participation in the creation and operation of a self-sufficient education center, organic farm, restaurant, fair trade shop and eco-technology development and demonstration center".
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NGO in Sri Lanka
Placement number: 0195
Location: Sri Lanka
Our project is one of the oldest multi-ethnic organisation lunched in 1958.  We work for peace through development. We mainly work for peace democracy and human rights.  It helps to strengthen the peace process in the country while accepting the peoples rights to peace and aims at alleviating poverty through promoting entrepreneurship.
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Africa

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Placement number: 0215
Location: Cameroon
We work in a local reigion of Cameroon and help develop the community in many ways including introducing ecotourism, increasing schooling capacity and helath standards in the local villages.
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Riding Camp
Placement number: 0094
Location: South Africa
Join us for a wonderful learning experience at our Farm, open to adult horse lovers over 16 years of age. At the farm they offer a unique working riding opportunity on the Wild Coast of South Africa. You will have the opportunity to work with young foals & yearlings, possibly help start 3 year olds and be able to exercise and school our other riding horses.
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Help locals learn organic farming - Uganda
Placement number: 0204
Location: Uganda
Our Child Care Centre is in Lukaya, Uganda has grown since it opened in January 2005 to care for and educate over 270 children, ages 3-8 years, most of whom are orphans (children with only one parent or none). We are a registered community based organization.Through the support of our nonprofit partner in the United States, Real Partners Uganda, Inc.
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Australia/Oceania


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Australian Retreat
Placement number: 0166
Location: Australia
At the Retreat we try to blend a level of self sufficiency with our exotic orchards and vegetable garden. We are bordered by a 150 megalitre lake and native timbers that we have enhanced over the years. Our Ecoteers can swim, canoe, fish or keep an eye open for the platypus. We operate a wholesale fruit tree nursery, and orchards with the inclusion of a small Bed and Breakfast
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Europe



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Come and Help on Our Organic farm
Placement number: 0218
Location: England
We are a 43 acre organic farm run as a centre
where people come to have experience of the countryside.  As a charity, we try to keep our costs down and we are able to offer opportunities to groups with low incomes (many of which are groups from the inner city).  As a result we are always looking for volunteers to help us on the farm.
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North America/Caribbean

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Placement number: 0209
Location: Grenada
This community service program will start in Early Spring 2008 by building an organic nursery -that does not yet exist in Grenada- to produce seedlings for short crops as well as spice trees. The beneficiaries are -often older- farmers that could not start up their farm because the access is still blocked and/or covered with dead trees and debris, caused by hurricane Ivan in September 2004.
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Help factory farm animals
Placement number: 0206
Location: USA
Our farm sanctuary is the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in 1986, we have worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the "food animal" industry through research and investigations, legal and institutional reforms, public awareness projects, youth education, and direct rescue and refuge efforts.
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Central America

Support an Organic Farm 
Placement Number:0152 LaGranGroup
Location: Costa Rica
This non-profit making farm has the aim of spreading environmentally sustainable agricultural methods to other
farmers in the area. Volunteers are required in a number of agricultural areas including planting of trees, soil remediation, medicinal herbs, terrace construction and biogas production.
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South America

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Help at an Orphanage
Placement number: 0157
Location: Brazil.
We are an orphanage dedicated to the shelter and protection of children and adolescents, giving priority to their education and improving  their employment potential.  Fluent Portugese required.Free food and accommodation.  Teachers, doctors, engineers and organic farmers required.
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Education Organic Farm
Placement number: 0082
Location: Ecuador.
We operate an Organic/ Permaculture Farm located in the transition forest on the mid coast of Ecuador. The farm works in Education and receives community farmers groups, students, teachers and children who come to learn about sustainable farming and to receive environmental education.
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Various projects near Angel Falls
Placement number: 0187
Location: Venezuela
All our projects are located in the Gran Sabana in the south-east of Venezuela, between the Orinoco and Amazon river basin. The highland area includes the huge National Park Canaima with its famous table-top mountains, Angel Falls and innumerable rivers that flow on jasper river-beds.
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