Sultan and Vehbi Ersoz, their sons Mehmet(9), Erdal (19) and Muammer have designated the two, 3-person rooms, in the back part of their adobe home, for TaTuTa visitors. The house is situated among the same fields that the family cultivates. The toilet is alaturka and inside the home, while bath water is heated on a wood-burning stove. Meals are prepared by the ever-talented Sultan Hanim and guests eat together with the Ersoz family. Erdal is the only member of the family that speaks English but is only home in the summer months. Thus, the family would prefer that foreigners come while Erdal is home. The Ersoz family is one of the first in Turkey to have started organic farming but what distinguishes them is that, despite an unreliable market for their goods and losses due to a variety of causes, they don’t give up on organic farming. While the market for this years’ produce is still uncertain, we hope that the cornichon pickles, peppers, tomato paste, sun-dried tomatoes, vegetables and walnuts they produce this year will be bought and consumed at the deserved price by TaTuTa visitors or at local markets in the region.
Recommended Contribution
The recommended contribution per person for bed and full board (three meals) is 40 YTL per day.
Volunteers stay for free.
Volunteer Tasks by Month
4 (filling seedling sacs, transplanting seedlings, carrying soil, sifting, greenhouse planting, stringing up plants in the greenhouse, pruning, harvesting); 5 (field planting of cucumber, squash, pepper, tomato, and leek, plowing, spading, stringing up plants in the greenhouse, pruning); 5,6 (hoeing weeds, watering); 6,7,8 (greenhouse harvest, processing, marketing, adobe brick production, barn work and construction with adobe); 7 (cornichon cucumber planting); 8 (hoeing, onion and garlic harvest, radish sowing); 9 (planting lettuce); 10 (lettuce, leek, radish harvest); 9, 10 (cornichon harvest, pickling); 8,9,10 (tomato and pepper paste production, tomato-drying).
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