I live on an off-grid permaculture homestead and certified organic farm called Keela Permaculture Farm. I am active in food forests, permaculture systems, natural building, and food production. My farm has been featured in Permaculture magazine many times I am a certified permaculture teacher with the Permaculture Association UK.
What do we do on the farm:
- Primarily, we live together on the farm, maintaining the gardens and forests, looking after the animals, cooking and usually building something new.
- We host permaculture courses for people that plan to start a homestead. Practical courses for people that want to really do it.
- In the summer I sell veggie boxes and trees to the local community, sometimes do market stalls and sell compost worms online.
- I also have animals such as chickens, sheep and a pig.
What will you get:
- We will provide you with three meals per day, a bed, and a lot of learning while you are doing it.
- Join yoga or workout classes at least one time per week
- Experience living on an established off-grid permaculture homestead
About you
- You will be hard-working, able to do physical work, a good team player, and have no mental health issues.
- Volunteers work 5 hours per day. Plus an hour of communal tasks such as cooking meals.
When applying:
Please apply to let us know what aspects of our farm you are most interested in and which of the above you would like to do. i.e. cooking, cleaning, gardening, forestry
Start Dates.
- Usually, we have 3 - 5 volunteers arrive together on the same day, so we can give you a nice welcome and tour together and reduce the number of people coming and going. So please select one of the below start dates, note during some of the year we also have a set end date, however you could also come for just two weeks.:
Start Dates
Monday, 7 December 2026
Monday, 11 January 2027
Monday, 15 February 2027
22nd March - 3rd May 2027
24th May - 27th June 2027
12th July - 15th August 2027
30th Aug - 4th Oct 2027
18th Oct - 21st Nov 2027
Monday, 29 November 2027
Organic methods: Permaculture, Food Forests, composting worms, manure, bio-fertilizers and compost teas for fertilizer.
Facilities:
- Straw bale community house
- Wood-powered hot shower in straw bale greenhouse
- Solar hot outdoor shower in nature
- A nice kitchen
- Lots of organic food from our garden
- Long drop vermiculture compost toilet as featured in permaculture magazine
- Eighteen hectares of beautiful land.
- Food Forest projects
- Restoration agriculture project
- Reforestation project
- Private, quiet location
- Lakes
- Good wifi and phone connection
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Learning opportunities
Fruit or nut farming
Sheep or goat farming
Forestry
Wild foraging
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Natural cosmetics fabrication
Green Building
Renewable energy production
Methods or systems
Biological pest control
Biodynamic agriculture
Holistic management
No-till farming
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
Certified organic
Former WWOOFer
18
Hectares
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44.5
Acres
Accommodation
