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GROL Garden

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Commenced:	01/01/2013
Submitted:	30/08/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Lefkoşa-Girne Anayolu, Kyrenia , CY
Website:	www.GROLgarden.info
Climate zone:	Semi Arid

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GROL Garden

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Urban, Rural, Commercial, Intentional Communities, Community, Demonstration

Project Summary

We are a nonprofit urban gardening project focused on cultivating sustainability by producing food using organic gardening, integrated systems, aquaponics, and permaculture farming techniques. We offer volunteer work exchanges- which ranges between 25-30 hours a week in exchange for food, accommodation, hands-on experience, and yoga classes on our Property.

Project Description

GROL Garden offers volunteer work exchanges- which ranges between 25-30 hours a week in exchange for food, accommodation, hands-on experience, and yoga classes on our Property.

We are always looking for interested volunteers.

We try to incorporate our volunteers unique skills sets into the mix. We've had landscapers, laborors, engineers, yoga teachers, massage therapists, artists, chefs, and other skilled individuals who were able to make contributions outside the typical gardening tasks.

If this opportunity interests you, please check out our website and facebook page for pictures & more information.

Website: www.GROLgarden.info

Facebook:www.facebook.com/GROL.Garden.Girne

HISTORY

GROL Garden started as a small garden growing cucumbers and sunflowers mid-summer 2012.

While researching information about organic gardening, Ray, the founder, came across Permaculture. She stumbled across a video of Quail Springs.

She checked out their website and discovered that they had an upcoming PDC, which she enrolled in along friend Emily Germano.

Ray returned to Cyprus in January 2013 and developed a plan to take the Garden in a serious direction. Since then, GROL has taken on a few managers and hosted over 100 volunteers from around the world.

Our project is still quite young, but growing rapidly. We produce herbs, micro greens, a wide variety of vegetables.

Our team currently consists of 4 permanent managers and a steady stream of international volunteers.

In 2015, we hope to host educational hands-on workshops as we build our eco-village and set up a food-forest.

We are always looking for interested volunteers.

To learn more, please Check out our website & fb page:

www.GROLgarden.info

www.facebook.com/GROL.Garden.Girne

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