Summer Employment Organic Farming

Earn While You Learn:  Summer Employment in Organic Farming

World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming has lots of great opportunities for you to learn about sustainable farming while you earn a little (and I do mean little) money.  Summer employment organic farming opportunities are available in nearly every state in the US, and in many other countries as well. If you are interested in summer employment organic farming opportunities, you should decide what kind of organic farming you are interested in, and where you want to go.  It is a wonderful way to learn how to live a sustainable lifestyle from people who do it for a living. 

WWOOF (www.organicvolunteers.org) is sort of a clearinghouse.  They list organic farmers who would like to provide employment or volunteer opportunities for other people.  Some of the farms are very small family gardens; some are large community concerns.  All of them are eager to share knowledge and skills about organic farming and their vision for sustainable living with other people.

Here’s how it works.  You go to the WWOOF website and look around.  Browse through the opportunities and find the summer employment organic farming opportunities that you’re interested in.  You contact those hosts and talk to them about what they are looking for and what you want to learn, and see if it is a good fit. 

Neither you nor the host is obligated to the summer employment organic farming opportunities at this time.  If you both decide that you’d like to give it a try, you are responsible to get to the host site.  If it doesn’t work out, that’s okay, too.  You can leave at any time, and the host can ask you to leave.  Most of the time, though, hosts try to make sure you are a good fit for their farm, and they like it if you can commit for whatever period of time they need you.

WWOOF gives people who are interested in organic farming and a sustainable lifestyle anywhere in the world the opportunity to make contact with people who have a similar interest.  If you are looking for a learn and earn summer employment opportunity in organic farming, this is one to check out.

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