Volunteer Programme to change your brain
The A2B Ecofarm skilled volunteer programme takes place in a beautiful rural area surrounded by plantations, indigenous forests and mountains.
The skilled volunteer programme is essentially a bartering scheme.
Bartering entails exchanging your time and competent skills such as natural farming, water management and eco-construction etc, for board and lodging. The farm owner will layout your weekly schedule and tasks which will be of high value and priority to the farm at that time. Flexibility is essential as priorities may shift.
Tasks must be completed satisfactorily to maintain the value proposition.
A2B Eco farm provides:
- Life on a beautiful 50 acre farm.
- Interaction with sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, donkeys and wildlife.
- New farming and personal skills.
- Basic single or shared furnished accommodation (which the volunteer must maintain).
- Solar power and pure spring water.
- Fully equipped kitchen with a wood-burning stove and oven, gas stove and gas fridges and freezers.
- Vegetable gardens, egg-laying chickens, goat's milk, fruit and nut trees.
- Basic groceries per month, with meat twice a week.
- Washing machine and facilities.
- Satellite Wi-Fi.
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Training in the A2B Transformation Human Optimisation Programme!
Our environment is an 'environment for change' which means a tough-love empowering lifestyle and strong ecosystem management principles which foster constructive body, mind, and spirit practices while keeping destructive influences out.
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Lifestyle and Cost
A2B Ecofarm offers a skills bartering deal valued at R 9,800 per month for a period of three months (total value R 29,400). It is not an employment programme but a special opportunity for you to take a gap in your life, learn to live off the grid, clear out your cobwebs, secrete more happy hormones than stress hormones, and switch your brain in the right direction.
You will barter 45 productive hours per week and enjoy the beautiful venue for the rest of your leisure time. A2B Ecofarm accommodates up to four capable adults at a time. Once selected, you will be considered an integral part of our farm-family. We operate like a kibbutz; therefore, you are immediately required to adapt to hard labor during the day and rest equally hard during the night (not vice versa). By exerting maximal effort, your body secretes endorphins, and mastering new skills triggers serotonin release, resulting in restful sleep with only natural night sounds, optimising melatonin secretion for your brain.
The volunteer programme is offered for a maximum of three months. On the positive side, respectful and high-value individuals may apply for our 6-month internship programme after three months. Stipends range from R1,000 to R8,000, depending on competency, volitional level, and collective future vision.
Volunteers and staff have structured rosters for various tasks, including cooking, animal husbandry, grass cutting, and agriculture.
We deeply care for each other, our ecology, our animals, and our physical resources, particularly valuing the unique A2B values and objectives. We expect you to share our intentional approach to all of the above.
If you fail to contribute value to the farm or negatively affect the ecosystem you will receive immediate confrontation and offered free professional help for improvement. Closed-mindedness, negligence, or heartlessness will result in immediate dismissal.
We practice the A2B "Ecosystem for Change management model," which you must familiarise yourself with and buy into before signing the Volunteers barter agreement and indemnity forms.
We maintain a positive spirit of hope, faith, and love, believing these faculties can create perpetual life. Every volunteer should exude an enthusiastic vibe and strive to live naturally and purposefully.
Due to our national A2B organisation's focus on promoting optimal brain development and recognising addiction as the primary element that destructs body organs, disrupts brain function, depletes finances, and damages relationships, we enforce a zero tolerance policy for addiction practice—except for enjoying our locally brewed ginger beers or fermented fruit juices.