The farm would even supply transport from New York City and bicycles to once, get to you. All, a friend and I had to do was the u-Bahn to a farmer's market in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and a van would pick us up. The entire experience would cost a penny. I suspected it was all too good to be true. Maybe some religious cult was US overcrowding hungry for new members with dreams of idyllic rural life.
But when we came to Williamsburg, Virginia, it was clear that these farmers were real and make produce a lively trading on the market. We helped load boxes according to the market ended, was sitting in the van, and the two-hour trip took Iceland to garden of Eve, an 80-acre organic farm on the North Fork of long.
Farm owner, Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht, fills us in the farm store and showed us the accommodation. The apprentices and migrant workers lived in the farmhouse so we had a choice between adjacent farmhouse or Pavilion in the fields of garage.
Initially we chose the rather but cheap garage, but our minds changed downbeat after the solar powered wooden gazebo, with a partial glass roof he looked to the stars. The gazebo was spacious, clean and somewhere to hear from the woodland sounds like to stay outside. Beds are made available; bring your own sheets.
We started work the day when we arrived the, mowing the lawn with a small tractor, and then with the apprentices, of which all were very helpful and gave us many consulting in the areas of work.
A great caution: This is hard, physical work and the pain will be build, if you are not used. Tomatoes were to choose the most difficult of all cultures. As broken, freshly picked tomatoes a natural irritant spraying that stitches so bad I could not see, and work had to wash my eyes before the restart.
Can 1,000 egg laying hens on the farm produce all damaged during the harvest, which hurled be housing in the areas of life in a free range. Hundreds of them to rush to see what's on offer when the food over the fence is raised. The hens have a very relaxed regime. Press some of them by the fence and hiking around every day for a few hours before we open the gate and persuade them back in. Some already waiting at the gate to open marbles from us to you.
Garden of Eve involved volunteers from mid April to Thanksgiving, so tasks vary depending on the season.
Move voluntary plants from the greenhouses in the fields in the spring, feed and take care of seedlings.
"In general we voluntary avert not if we have room," says Kaplan-Walbrecht. "Volunteers are good workers and help to our farm with new eyes see us because they are so excited."
After the work and a shower, it is a walk or a cycle to the nearby Beach, offers a splendid view over the long Iceland sound. The farm has a Beach House that gives managers and the managers on his farm you can be if we were not on the beach relax it. Some nights we returned back to the beach, the ocean and watch shooting stars listen to stripe across the sky.
If we were not working or on the beach, we visited the local wineries. My favorite, Palmer vineyards is located in the immediate vicinity, and is known locally for its rose of Merlot. Palmer offers wine tasting in the summer many of the local wineries do.
With the day five, I was really tired. The voluntary work schedule is only loosely enforced, but you are expected to work from 8 am to 5 pm which were pain worth for the huge free organic lunch the apprentice cooked up.
With the day six, I had to return in the city, so we have a ride in the van to one of the best vacation of my life.
It was a training, a holiday and a return to nature, a chance to check out wineries, stargaze, and swimming in the ocean, literally spend everything without a dollar. The only time I have cash was a night when we ate in one of the many authentic Mexican restaurants in the vicinity. Try that in Las Vegas. For the eco-conscious we not burn an extra gram carbon also arrival, or again. I have even the organic farming have adapted lessons that I learned, the onion plants I grow in my apartment.
Many other companies offer similar remains. A very useful organization called world-wide opportunities on organic farms help find you ways to the country and around the world.
WWOOF United States Program Manager Ryan Goldsmith says, that website of the group anywhere has details of over 1500 organic farms in the United States now "the largest concentrations are in the West and East Coast, but we are hundreds add more products from all over the country" said Goldsmith. "Your support, and volunteers need be every single one of them to get so much of it."
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If you go:
WORLDWIDE opportunities on BIO-farms: http://www.wwoof.org and http://www.wwoof.usa.org.
GARDEN OF EVE: New York to long located east of New York City; Iceland, about 80 km in Aquebogue, a hamlet of Riverhead, http://www.gardenofevefarm.com. Farm workers can volunteers in New York City farmers' markets pick up. Long Iceland rail road service available to the town of Riverhead from Penn Station. Free accommodation and food in exchange for work, with accommodations including the quiet gazebo or the large, two-story farmhouse, where apprentices and workers, music and fun.
PALMER vineyards: Aquebogue, long Iceland; http://www.palmervineyards.com or 631-722-9463.
Activities and FESTIVALS: offers depending on weather conditions on Saturday night from 7 pm to midnight, across an entertaining view of the night sky with telescopes and laser-pointer formed the Observatory Custer Southold. Adults, $5; Children, $3; http://www.custerobservatory.org or 631-765-2626. long Iceland strawberry picking season starts in June, especially in rural areas on the North Fork route 25A is located close to or along the State. Garden of Eve hosts a Garlic Festival on the last weekend in September.
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