Sustainable Agriculture in Volunteer in Bali
Highlights
- Live and work with Balinese families and explore the island's best-kept secrets.
- Gain a highly-unique cultural immersion experience.
- Be a part of sustainable agriculture revolution in Bali.
- Work alongside local farmers and learn about various aspects of agriculture.
Overview
Sawah Bali been facilitating workshops and sustained technical assistance. The Agro-tourism program is up and running with international volunteers of all ages, they come and work in the fields, learn permaculture and live within a family compound enjoying the immersion into Balinese village life .The heritage rice, mangkok has proven to be an economic boon and has been able to withstand climate change of drought and monsoon rain.
Goals:
• Increasing the farmer’s income and health.
• Returning to organic methods and restructuring what and how crops are grown.
• Supply chain of logistics for selling premium heritage rice, mangkok.
• Capacity building with all systems for model replication
• Resource management (subak) + crops to mitigate climate change and water crisis in Bali
• To conserve sawah+ subak, food security, food sovereignty, cultural landscape and the heritage of generation to generation rice culture through land inheritance.
Our volunteers are developing a demonstration farm, where we are using inventive permaculture techniques. You will inspire the community and prove the economic and environmental value of their transition to mixed organic agriculture. We hope to foster a new generation of farmers who build profitable agribusinesses and hold onto their unique heritage land and culture.
Volunteer Tasks:
• Gardening & rice paddy farming
• Garden maintenance
• Preparing products for market
• Building
• Animal care
• Technical assistance
• IT
• Communications
• Social Media
• Marketing
• Photography & Video