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Volunteer Age Requirements
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Volunteers must be 18 years or older. Are you at least 18 years old?
Consent
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We seek to create a safe, loving space for all beings on our farm. We ask all visitors to help us to maintain this respectful environment. We value consent-based relationships that honor humans beings, non-human beings + the Unseen. We hold each other accountable with gentleness, making space for mistakes and repair. We respect the beautiful diversity of folx who come to serve on the land together and expect all visitors to do the same.
Tell us about yourself!
Do you have any special skills that you would like to share with us? Anything you would like us to know about you?
Sharing the Land - Expectations
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We seek to create a safe, loving space for all beings on our farm. We ask all visitors to help us to maintain this respectful environment. We value consent-based relationships that honor humans beings, non-human beings + the Unseen.
Please no photography on the farm without permission. Due to certified organic regulations, no pets please.
Photography
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Please no photography or videos on the farm without permission. Please no photos of private residences. Please do not take photos of other individuals without explicit consent. We reserve the right to ask you to delete media taken without permission.
Animals
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Due to certified organic regulations, no pets please. Please be aware that we have a variety of animals on our farm, including large dogs. Please do not enter animal pens or approach beehives without permission.
Harvesting
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Please do not harvest anything without explicit permission and instruction.
Caring for Our Selves
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Who is your support system? How do you take care of yourself during challenging times?
Our community can complement -- but not replace -- other modes of healing and self-care. We encourage every member of our community to find the support, personal rituals, and healing practices that nourish them. Working on the land can be a surprisingly difficult journey of processing and healing grief. We ask you to be mindful of this before visiting us and take time to consider how you foster resilience within yourself. Please be prepared to seek care from your existing support systems. Our staff and volunteer coordinators are not trained mental health professionals.
Role of White Folx on Wapato Island Farm
Wapato Island Farm is a multiracial collective of farmers and land-tenders that seeks to grow in liberation together. Wapato Island Farm is the sacred homeland of the Multnomah people that, today, is tended by many hands from many places. Together, we share a deep desire to honor the people, waters, plants and fungi of this precious patch of Earth. Together, we work to preserve and share its beauty and healing power. Thank you for your desire to serve the land and to listen and learn with us. Together, we will grow our dreams.
We ask folx of settler European-heritage to take the responsibility of educating themselves in anti-racism. We expect folx of settler European-heritage to be mindful of their privilege and space-taking. We hold awareness that we are all learning and this is a lifelong process. We hold each other accountable and take action to stop harmful behavior.
At Wapato Island Farm, we collectively support indigineous sovereignty. We celebrate and seek to collectively support the realization of the dreams of our BIPOC relatives. We commit to the active and ongoing work of uprooting white supremacy from our bodies, our relationships and the land. We listen to our BIPOC relatives and support their leadership at all levels of our farm’s operations.
We are so amazed by and grateful for the beautiful diversity that each individual – human, plant, animal and fungus! – brings to the land. We believe that we must all be present, heard and celebrated to grow in beauty. We actively work to learn to love each other better each day. We make room for repair and restoration when mistakes are made. We respect and maintain boundaries when they are needed. We believe that our collective liberation requires a lifelong commitment to collaborative work across all ethnicities and identities. We are grateful to all those past, present and future who are working for freedom, beauty and justice.
Respecting Land and Culture – Resources + Practice Suggestions:
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We seek to build a culturally-sensitive and trauma-informed community that acknowledges and explores the possibilities of healing together. We are always learning. We value the importance of educating ourselves as a lifelong journey. As a volunteer for Wapato Island Farm, we invite you to take responsibility for actively participating in educating yourself. We request that you listen to and read these suggested materials to be a part of helping us create a safer and more inclusive community on our farm.
Suggested Resources
Read:
Tema Okun, “The Cultural Characteristics of White Supremacy”: White Supremacy Culture - Still Here.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XR_7M_9qa64zZ00_JyFVTAjmjVU-uSz8/view
Suggested Reflections: how might these characteristics show up in myself and my communities? How might I begin to bring conscious awareness to these characteristics within myself as I enter into new relationships with the land and community?
Listen:
Farmer, seedkeeper, and Indigenous seed and food sovereignty activist, Rowen White, talks with Prentis Hemphill about how seeds operate as gateways to our lineage and how our current disconnection manifests as grief. Rowen invites us to remember and reconnect to our histories, the wisdom of our ancestors, and to the collective as a source of sustenance:
“Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowan White,” Finding Our Way Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CWqYKvdQGMHFJEbdeV8F0?si=67b7bbeeb0454631
This podcast gives a brief overview of trauma, what it is, and how it manifests in the body: Karine Bell, “The Critical Missing Link in our Healing and Well-Being”: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6JPedigZBpJmzYcqoTcL9V?si=6a91ce3dfea345ed
This conversation with Resmaa Menakem focuses more specifically on racialized trauma, how all of us carry in our bodies the history and traumas behind everything we collapse into the word “race,” and how we might heal ourselves on a cellular level:
“Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence,” On Being with Krista Tippett: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KpRaOenBXFGm1p0jtrzm3?si=k665uqyJSquF3y_-z5w7qQ
Once you have reviewed these materials, please share with us how you will commit to personally supporting the creation of a safer space on our farm?
Volunteer Liability Waiver
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Please read carefully. This is a legal document.
Wapato Island Farm - 2023 Volunteer Waiver Form
The undersigned individual (hereafter referred to using “I”, “me”, “my”, “myself”, or “Volunteer”) wishes to work as a volunteer of Wapato Island Farm, LLC (“Wapato Island Farm”). Volunteer understands that volunteering for Wapato Island Farm will include performing physical labor, handling food products, working with various tools and equipment, planting and harvesting crops, weeding or preparing the fields, and any other tasks and activities incidental or related to the work of Wapato Island Farm (the “Volunteer Activities”). Participation in the Volunteer Activities involves certain risks, including, but not limited to, serious injury, and I am voluntarily participating in the Volunteer Activities with knowledge of the potential danger involved. I understand that I will be trained in proper and hygienic harvesting and packing procedures, and agree to always abide by these procedures when doing these activities on the farm.
On behalf of myself and my family, guardians, estate, beneficiaries, heirs, successors and assigns, I hereby release, discharge and forever hold harmless Wapato Island Farm and its employees (collectively, the “Organization”) from all present and future claims or demands for property damage, personal injury, wrongful death and any other liability of whatever kind that may arise as a result of my participation in the Volunteer Activities. I also agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Organization for all claims arising out of or relating to my participation in the Volunteer Activities. I understand and agree that the Organization is not responsible for any injury or damage arising out of the Volunteer Activities, including any injury or damage alleged to have arisen out of negligence by the Organization.
I have disclosed any and all allergies or relevant medical conditions to the Organization on the Volunteer Information Form. I agree that Wapato Island Farm is not responsible for administering medical treatment of any kind.
I hereby irrevocably grant and assign to the Organization all right, title and interest in and to any and all photographic images and audio or video recordings of me made by the Organization during the Volunteer Activities. I agree to ask for permission from the Organization before making any photographic images or recordings.
I understand that this waiver and release is intended to be as broad and inclusive as permitted by the laws of the State of Oregon, and that it shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon. I agree that if any portion of this waiver and release is invalid, the remainder will continue in full legal force and effect.
Thank you so much for taking the time to apply to volunteer with us!
Once you have submitted our 2023 Volunteer Orientation Application, you are welcome to join us on the farm on Volunteer Days as your schedule allows.
Thank you again for your time and willingness to serve and learn from the land. We look forward to meeting you!
