I'm pretty happy with cycling to strawberry picking. While I
don't have anything like a community  or culture outside  of
new cyberia, I found seasonal work is a way to hang out with
people from cultures whose fashioning  could be described as
old. 

It's not all a cake walk.   High density  farming  of  sweet
things means you are constantly  breathing  the in the black
and  grey  particulate  mist of mould which explode  as  you
"clean  them" while picking (throw them onto the ground,  to
the extent they are a well behaved rigid object). This leads
to constant sneezing  that is not at all cute or apologetic.
Today particularly  there has been a massive  sandfly  boom.
Vietnamese pickers will not go amoung the rows with anything
less than a full hazmat suit; and the feeling is they've got
the  right of it.  Different  big communities  might dislike
each other on principle in some way. 

Let's codename one of my friends Lilly.  She seems to be the
most important  person  at the farm, though  maybe Lilly  is
just  the  head  seasonal-worker-facing  person.   Lilly  is
putting   their  daughter  through  an NZ college   at  full
international student rates.  I think that's about 10k NZD /
course,   8 courses  a year;   ballpark  at least.    I  was
interrogating  them while we were picking next to each other
about  what she does on days off, and this idea just doesn't
register  with her. When she finishes  for the day, she gets
to spend time at home with her family;  she works seven days
a week,  all the time (I don't  have  any knowledge  of  the
non/seasonal  nature of this). I feel like she was trying to
give me advice,  or make a pointed observation  about  how I
take  Wednesdays  off for my show,  and so she has scheduled
herself to pick rather than QC on Wednesdays. 

I'm very interested  in this non-working-week  vision of the
world  and  SE DEBROUILLER  nature  of Orwell's   PLONGEURS.
(Obviously   I  don't agree with the  existence   of  modern
economic work). 

This  is also the sort of place  and person  I want  to have
personal-scope  deep learning harnessed by all the time, and
it is my dream  to have personal device  deep learning  that
people here will gain from using themselves day-to-day.