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Volunteer

Come as a volunteer

Volunteering is the most direct way into life at Østre Dal Gård. You work alongside the people who carry the place: in the gardens and the greenhouse, with the hens, on the old houses, around the sauna and the fire.

The work is practical and shared. Some of it is skilled, most of it is willing hands, and all of it is done side by side, the way this place has always been kept alive.

You do not need to be an expert in anything. Care for the place and the people, and a willingness to show up, matter more than any particular skill.

Apply to volunteer

The work at the farm

Two young people digging a garden bed with spades in front of a house.
Hands in the ground
A person digging soil beside a wheelbarrow, with green hills stretching away behind.
Building by hand
A young man working with a wheelbarrow at a compost bin, the valley wide open behind him.
Closing the loop
The bare timber frame of a large greenhouse standing in a grass field under a clear sky.
New timber going up
A man tending tall tomato plants and flowers inside a timber framed greenhouse in full growth.
The greenhouse, one season on
A child's hands holding three ripe red tomatoes above the plants they came from.
First tomatoes

What we expect, and what you can expect

Every stay is shaped in dialogue. Tell us in the application when you can come, for how long, and what kind of work you enjoy, and we will find the shape that serves both you and the place.

What we expect: that you take part in the work with care, that you treat the place, the animals and the people around you as a guest who intends to leave things better, and that you honour the agreements we make together.

What you can expect: meaningful work with visible results, people to do it with, simple accommodation at the farm when your stay includes living here, and the experience of belonging to a place that is coming back to life.

Start your volunteer application

Apply to volunteer