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Escape to the mountains of Shikoku and experience an alternative way of living,close to nature, and focused on sustainability and self-sufficiency 🌱
We are looking for 1 motivated volunteer to join us on this meaningful journey of building, growing, and living in harmony with our environment 💚
24 hours of help per week
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
3 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
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.
Over 18 years old
Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Hello!
Our homestead is set deep in the mountains of Western Japan, focused on self-sufficiency and sustainability. We grow a lot of our own food, save our own seeds, and use our own wood for building, heating and cooking. The homestead is completely off grid and quite isolated.
Recently we acquired a separate property 30 minutes drive down the mountain, in the main river valley. We've called it the Blue House, and it's a normal electrified house, although it's quite old and in need of some restoration. We now stay there part of the week, and it's where volunteers are based and spend most of their time. Nearby there is a large store and restaurant, a train station, a CrossFit gym and white water rafting - all within about 20 minutes walk. There's also a large and famous Buddhist temple a couple of minutes walk down the lane.
Tasks for volunteers include helping to restore the house, building work on the homestead itself, general cleaning of windows,drains etc., farming and gardening work, forestry and bush clearing.
On weekends we normally go back up the mountain, or sometimes to a farmer's market in the city, so volunteer days off are usually Saturday, Sunday and Monday; although everything we do is seasonal and dependent on the weather, so that could change with common agreement.
The accommodation is self-catering, with free use of our kitchen and laundry facilities.
We look forward to meeting you!
🛠️ What You’ll Do
Your days may include a mix of:
🏡 Building & restoration work (helping with our main house)
🌲 Forestry tasks (cutting, preparing wood, seasonal work)
🥕 Organic farming (planting, harvesting, maintaining crops)
🧼 Light domestic tasks (cleaning & organizing shared spaces)
💪 Most activities are physical and outdoors, perfect if you enjoy being active and connected to nature
⏰ Schedule
🕒 Flexible schedule depending on:
🌦️ Weather
🌱 Season
🔨 Current projects
We plan everything together to keep a good balance between work and rest 🤝
We expect volunteers to be courteous and clean at all times , and to perform their tasks in a responsible and considerate manner.
Some of our work is dangerous and safety is paramount.
Otherwise no rules.
