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Winery and tasting room / Homestead helping hand - Maine Woods

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The experience

We are looking for a Jack/Jill of all trades. A go-getter who enjoys trying new things and is willing to stretch and grow with us. The opportunities for learning are endless, and new insights and ideas are a welcome addition! Our homestead which includes farm work, is expanding with the addition of an onsite wine tasting room. We are also establishing an Airbnb private room with bathroom. We will need help with all of our ventures.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

United States Visa

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We operate a small onsite winery, tasting room, onsite Airbnb, host RV campers through Harvest Host, and operate a small farm store. We raise Kiko goats for breeding and meat, process honey from our hives in the summer, grow ten varieties of apples, grow produce in our 20+ raised garden beds and mini-greenhouse, mostly for household consumption.

We are looking for Spring through mid-fall to support the many projects we challenge ourselves with around the homestead during the warmer parts of the year. The type of work you could do to assist us ranges from, morning and evening chores in the barn, animal husbandry, including goats and chickens, maintaining garden beds, tree and limb clean up, which the leaves and needles are fed to our goats, building and mending fences, building decks, beekeeping, general maintenance, and preparing for winter.

Activities & Shift

Typically 20-25 hours of work is expected per week per person. When exactly you put in the work would be by mutual agreement, and largely at your convenience. It does not need to be every week-day, and on some things we may prefer to work with you on the weekends when we have the time to show you what we want or to lead a project.

We are looking for a helper or a couple that are willing to be flexible with the hours they work, whatever makes the most sense for the week and the weather but no more than the agreed upon number of hours. The hours can be worked a couple in the morning, a couple at night, all in the morning, all at night, or over the weekend, depending on what the helper(s) may wish to do with their free time. We are open in most cases to being flexible with when the hours are worked.

Rules

We typically like to start a new Worldpackers-type relationship with a week's trial stay. After we establish that we are all a good match, we have no set limit to length of stay. The longer the better if it is working well.

Everyone must sign and return a Waiver of Liability before arriving. This is not risk free tourism, and we need you to acknowledge that you are voluntarily helping with real work, and understand that you are responsible for yourself while visiting. We do everything that we can to make sure you are safe and comfortable out here in the Maine woods, while working on the homestead.

Your own transportation is not a must but you are more apt to enjoy the area with your own transportation so you can come and go as you wish.

Our preference is for non-smokers but this is not a disqualifier.