“Sunrise Farm” sounds like a yogurt brand, but at ARI it is an activity. Namely, this week Scott has been in a carrot field at 5AM each morning, where the Farm team is thinning out the carrots.
Work at ARI is carefully (but to the newcomer, confusingly) assigned among participants, staff, and volunteers. Each ARI volunteer is assigned to two work teams. One work team is a permanent assignment for the during of their stay. The other work team assignment changes monthly.
Chrys’ permanent assignment is a FEAST team that prepares lunch for everyone at ARI (the numbers vary but around 60 each meal) and then does kitchen clean up and maintenance after lunch. Her rotating assignment is the Chicken team. That is exactly what you think. The Chicken team does one work shift in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Scott is permanently assigned to the Farm team. Again, the name explains it all. Ordinarily the Farm team also does a morning and an afternoon shift, but it has been so hot here that the afternoon shift has been moved to “sunrise farm”, which starts at 5AM. His rotating team assignment is a different FEAST team that prepares breakfast and supper for everyone here.
That is how it works during the week. On weekends everyone pulls one Saturday shift with their rotating team. This is, after all, a farm with chores to do every day. So on Saturday Chrys and Scott will do a morning shift at Chickens and FEAST, respectively. All other weekend duties are spread out among everyone (participants, staff, and volunteers) and change each week. As it happens this weekend we both have FEAST breakfast duty on Saturday.
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