The Kibbutz Gezer Community

Engaging volunteers to enhance our sustainable farming practices together.

Volunteer Opportunities

Join us in our olive farm to learn and contribute sustainably.

We are looking for volunteers to come pick olives and prune olive trees from mid-October to January.

Volunteers/wwoofers work 6 1/2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Olive picking entails spreading tarps under the olive trees and raking the olives off at a steady pace. It’s physical farmwork, requiring being able to keep working outside at a steady pace all day. When picking is finished, we prune all the trees.

Gezer is located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, so there's pretty easy access both by bus and train. We are a kibbutz, which is a rural communal village. Besides the olives, we have 900 acres (3600 dunam) of farmland, 250 milking cows, a community garden, and food forest. Plus individual gardens and projects. There’s people who can provide information and inspiration about farming, organic farming, permaculture, gardening, building and more.

If you are a friendly, open and hard-working person, I think you will have a great experience here. Gezer is a friendly community, with friendly people. Most speak English, and many moved to Israel from other countries. Some will invite you for coffee or a meal, and are interested in meeting new people. We arrange Friday night meals with families.

We implement permaculture principles to improve our community's ecology and sustainability.