Taos Initiative for Life Together - A Worktrade

Program.

From early May to the end of October, TiLT offers a wide range of opportunities for volunteers. Depending upon your passions and proficiencies, your work will be divided between the following domains:

Work for our Food

• Work w our team at nearby Taos Village Farm, a larger-scale vegetable/dairy/meat CSA
• Work in our greenhouses: Tomatoes, basil, herbs
• Work at our backyard farm of produce suited to the high desert: corn, squash, beans, onions, potatoes, garlic
• Weekly Food Labs: grind corn, make granola, bake bread, process green chiles, make yogurt and goat cheese, dry, can, and process storables for the winter
• Intercultural food & music events for the larger community

Work on Sustainable Living Projects @ the TiLT Site

Previous and current projects at TiLT include designing and building: backyard compost bioreactors, rocket stoves, three greenhouses, constructing w home-made adobe bricks, an outdoor kitchen complex, earth plastering, a wood-fired adobe oven, a compost toilet, a solar shower, a solar food dryer, raised garden beds, a chicken coop, a wall of drought-resistant fruit shrubs, a large rainwater catchment system, two radiant-heat floors, and a flagstone plaza.

Education Support w/ Roots & Wings Community School, an innovative adventure-based k-8 public charter school

You can work two days a week, during the school year, as education support staff at Roots & Wings Community School, an innovative K-8 public charter located in a rural farm & forest setting in the mountains near Taos, NM. RWCS education brings together the head, hands and heart in adventurous, semester-long interdisciplinary Learning Expeditions.