Organic Vegetable Gardens at Sieben Linden Ecovillage (12 months) in 2027
GEN-Deutschland - Netzwerk für Gemeinschaften e.V.
Siedlungsgenossenschaft Ökodorf e.G.
Beetzendorf, Germany
Description
Organic Vegetable Gardens
Being outdoors and growing food for the community will be your daily task. As you start in spring you will experience a full growing season, from the seedling to the harvest. The garden team grows more than 50 different types of vegetables, fruits and herbs using different growing techniques and a variety of tools that you will learn.
Organic Vegetable Gardens + Fruit Orchard
Aside from the vegetable garden, we have some Fruit Orchards where we produce different varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries and berries. If you choose this placement, you will work some days in the vegetable garden and some days in the orchard. The main tasks of the orchard are pruning trees, cultivating, mowing grass and preparing trees for harvest, harvesting and storing of fruits.
Interested in getting your hands dirty and working with your whole body?
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
You will be part of the group of young volunteers called JuLe (German for “young people”) and live together in one area of the village (“JuLe-Platz”) creating your own living space together with shared caravans and kitchen. One afternoon per week by a team of experienced facilitators offers time and space to get to know each other as well as permanent young residents. Different methods will be used to work on inner processes and communication including fun and creativity.
Being in a very rural area, there's a bus stop connecting to Wolfsburg and other bigger cities from there.
Training during the activity
German linguistic support is provided as needed by the participants. There's two mandatory trainings organised by the German National Agency, On-Arrival and Mid-Term training. Depending on your level of understanding German language you're also able to join seminars onsite provided by the education centre.
Participant profile
Are you interested in a sustainable lifestyle? Or in immersion in an intentional community? Or in new work experiences?
Then please answer the questions in this form as we won't consider your application otherwise: https://umfragen.siebenlinden.org/index.php/168689
Questions? Please contact Lorena our volunteer coordinator for ESC: lorena.castro@sige.siebenlinden.org
More links to more information
- Short interview of a volunteer from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u3NL-lsnEo
- Video from another volunteer 2020 in German with English subtitiles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MDzWHFRkS4&list=RDLV2MDzWHFRkS4&start_radio=1&rv=2MDzWHFRkS4&t=2
Activity dates
From 01/03/2027 to 28/02/2028
Activity location
Sieben Linden 1, Beetzendorf, Germany
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Community development
Green skills
Environment and natural protection
Education and training
Nutrition and subsistence agriculture
Deadline for applications
No application deadline
Project code
2026-1-DE04-ESC51-VTJ-000401722