Gose 2

Name: Gose 2
Start: 2024-04-16
End: 2026-08-24
Location: Nara, Japan

Code: 20260217-75af-4815-a261-a8979b78056a Copied

Japan Farming Environment Teenagers Farming Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

Gose 2

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

This project is actively working for SDG2 (Zero Hunger) and SDGS15 (Life on Land). This project is co-organized with Sugiura Farm that engages in organic farming for pursuing food safety and an environmental-friendly society. The local farmers in the project area became too old to continue working on their farms. Taking over the farmland of these retired farmers, the host, Mr. Sugiura, now cultivates vegetables, harvests crops, makes fertilizer, and processes the harvest into products. He works not only to produce crops, but also to conserve the environment and preserve the beautiful rural landscape of Japan's countryside.

💼 What the programme involves

Supporting crop production through pesticide-free, environmentally friendly farming, including growing buckwheat and restoring abandoned fields. Volunteers may also help with grass cutting, composting, and harvesting.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers stay at an old Japanese house next to the local host's. Volunteers cook by themselves by turn. Smoking is not allowed. The host has a cat.

🍲 Food

Volunteers cook by themselves by
turn. Smoking is not allowed.

📍 About the location

It is located in Gose city, Nara pref. which is about 50 km southeast of Osaka. Other activities - Hot spring, temples and shrines. Short trip to main city in Nara.

⚠️ Requirements

High motivation to work hard with simple mountain life in a remote area. Interests in agriculture.

🤝 Meeting point

From the nearest airport, KIX (Osaka), it takes about 2 hours by train to the meeting point. Volunteers
can leave the site around noon on the last day.

ℹ️ Additional information

Study theme - Volunteers will acquire the knowledge of organic farming. Participation fee - 18,000 JPY (99 EUR by the rate on 2026 Feb. 14) of NICE Volunteers fee need to be paid in advance either by Card or PayPal. This is used for the project preparation/ coordination such as the transportation of the staff/ camp leaders, visa invitation cost, publications, etc. while the meals and the accommodation are provided by the local host by free (so, your fee is not used for those things!). Other - Volunteers can get knowledge about actions for developing local village and ancient times. Also the basic knowledge of the Japanese language and local culture.

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