Vegetable Gardener

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 not deterred by the hard and deeply rewarding work of growing your own food. You are strong, able to do manual work for hours each day, and work with small gardening machines and tools.

Program length: The minimum commitment is 6 months. Prefer 8 months for the full season.

Start anytime after January 3,  2025.

This is a unique opportunity to join a work-study resident volunteer program 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 beautification of the Center.

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