What to expect for WWOOFers
Community
At Jacob Springs, we value community highly. As much as reality demands that we work hard and are productive, people come first here. What's the point of working long hard hours and passing up more lucrative opportunities if you can't enjoy the fruit of your labor around the table with your community in harmony? We have a number of distinctive values that we hold to:
- Jacob Springs is an Organism, not an organization
- Love not law - We operate first on norms, rather than rules,
*Of the Three forms of social organization we value the communal form, and we recognize and protect its fragility.
As a Wwoofer, we are not offering you a job, rather a place in our lives through our community.
Work and Schedule
The Jacob Springs Farm schedule begins each day Monday through Saturday at dawn (see Jacob Springs dawn start times calendar) with a 15-20 minute meeting prior to chores. Volunteers, wwoofers, and farm team members are expected to attend, we expect you to wake yourself. The meeting will review the calendar and assess progress toward the goals of the weekly agenda
Chores follow the meeting. Workers are invited to join in a (typically) wonderful breakfast following chores. Over breakfast, we typically engage in an informal discussion topic. After breakfast, special projects continue until 11 or noon.
If community norms are not being respected, community leaders are forced to either add to their workload, become disciplinarians and ask for compliance, or choose to tolerate an atmosphere of diluted respect and effectiveness. Please don't force us to choose, if community norms are regularly disregarded you may be asked to leave
Cautions
At Jacob Springs, we do process meats, wwoofers will be expected to participate
Guidelines and norms
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- Feel free to use the outhouse by the greenhouse or the bathroom in the Farm Kitchen.
- Please clean after yourself and replace toilet paper if it runs out on your "watch".
