Helping on the Farm
After many years of having a set apprenticeship program, and then a couple years of not having any people stay on the farm, we are now open again for helpers. We are looking for people who are fit and have a positive attitude about physical work. We are also looking for people who are good with children, as we have a two year old, and can always use help playing with Oscar.
The farm is an incredible place for coming to understand nature. We are on the edge of the Algonquin wilderness, so we work with all forms of wildlife in our activities at the farm. The gardens are no-till, and my herb fields for Algonquin Tea are perennial polyculture. This farm is also an educational centre that runs a series of earth wisdom workshops every season, so helpers will not only gain knowledge about growing herbs and vegetables but many other earthwise ways of living and working with the ecology. Friends and visitors to the farm tend to be very environmentally enlightened people looking for experience and kinship with others of like mind.
If you are not coming to a workshop, then farm stays work on a WWOOF type arrangement. This means you, as our guest, work about 6 hours a day in exchange for food, shelter and the knowledge gained through the experience.
The work varies from day to day and during the season. In the spring there is lots of garden preparation, transplanting, weeding. In summer there is more harvesting herbs, weeding and watering. Late summer early fall is almost all harvesting and processing herbs and food.
We are taking two to four people depending on our work load. Most people stay in there own tents, which among other things affords some privacy. We also have tents, a camper van, a converted barn space and a cabin to stay in off season.
We are vegetarians that eat meat, which is to say we have a vegetarian diet, but eat some meat from the farm or area. We also eat lots of eggs and local raw milk as we have chickens and are part of a cow share. We can accommodate most diets.
Length of stay, longer then two weeks will be determined collectively when you are here and as we go.
The last year we had apprentices we had over two hundred applications.
Please contact Megan at workshops@algonquintea.com, or 613-625-1106
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Helping on the Farm
Here at the Algonquin Tea Farm the cultural role of our workshops has become crystal clear over the last two decades. We teach the vision and skills of traditional living, herbalism, permaculture and alternative building, but our aim is always the same “to make the Earth come alive for our visitors who have lost touch with Her” and to “enable them to become part of a extended community that keeps this sacred knowledge alive”. To help our guests become deeply, spiritually, personally connected with a small aspect of the real Earth is our goal. When this seed grows and blooms within us another deeper more meaningful dimension is reveled and the World literally comes alive. So when our guests go home, they go with a new vision of Nature and take with them a host of deep relationships with the plants, animals, people and other relations who have come alive for them during the workshop to act as their teachers and guides.
Part of keeping the spirit of the Earth alive in our hearts is to rekindle these first deep connections we make. This is why over the years of running workshops at the Algonquin Tea Farm we’ve noticed many of the participants come back to as many workshops as they can over a year or two. This year were making it easier to be part of our community of Earth lovers with a
Herbal Apprenticeship Course, and a special three-workshop price.
The herbal course consists of three different seasonal workshops that take place over three (three-day) weekends. In the course, through the seasons, the participant will learn through hands on activities how to: Identify, grow, harvest, make as food or medicine and traditionally preserve more then one hundred different herbs! Each of the three workshop has a focus, as given to us by the season.
The Wild Edible Workshop (Spring - May 4-6)
Intuitive Healing with Plants (Summer - July 27-29)
Herbal Preparations and Medicine Making (Fall – Sept 28- 30)
Back by popular demand, we are also offering
A Free Cob Building Workshop (June 22-24)
As well as the “Algonquin Island” camping
Lucid Dreaming workshop (August 24-26)
Megan: workshops@algonquintea.com
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