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Interested in WWOOFing in (countries): Belize

What is your experience in Organic Farming?: The Outpost is a remote site located in the Belizean jungle in the foothills of the Mountain Pine Ridge. Our primary mission here is catering to our campers who are primarily backpackers traveling around Central and South America . Additionally, we operate a tropical plant and palm nursery as well as a citrus grove. Our volunteers assist in those endeavors. Although some of our volunteers may find us on the WWOOF website we are not a traditional WWOOF location and you might not be doing any farming during your visit with us. If farming, as oppossed to volunteering in general, is your primary goal we might not be for you.

Volunteers at the Outpost work in a beautiful environment and enjoy discounted pricing on trips to amazing waterfalls, swimming holes, caves and canoeing. We ask for a minimum commitment of 30 days. Your time at the Outpost usually consists of 5- 6 hour workdays and helping with evening meal preparations/cleanup in the course of a 6 day workweek. We encourage longer stays and our longer term volunteers may enjoy periodic additional days off as well as more time in nearby San Ignacio. The work in Barton Creek includes landscaping, nursery work with our tropical flowers and palms, assisting visiting campers in various capacities, lots of general cleaning, building & equipment maintenance and a fair share of kitchen work. We sometimes have special projects like trail building, construction and selling at the local market as well. Our volunteers work hard and we appreciate an ongoing positive attitude. The Outpost is in a remote location and working with us is not for everyone. Some people fit with us better than others and there are times when this is obvious in the first few days and we release volunteers from their commitment and they move along. While we try to put our volunteers in situations that make the best use of their skill sets our primary goal is to accomplish our daily mission with the people we have helping us. Additionally, we are a family run business with our children around all the time so potential volunteers should be comfortable dealing with them on a daily basis. Sleeping arrangements usually are a mattress and sleeping bag in our communal loft area.

Check out our Facebook and websites for information on what we do here and check out tons of pictures.

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At 11:35pm on February 7, 2010, M Lee said…: I would love to become a volunteer in your farm. Please send me detail.