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Description
We are Ninon & Jurgen and live off-grid at our eco-friendly Mountain Retreat (A down to earth guest farm). It's about digital detox eco-tourism, hiking trails, mountain trekking, canyoning and other adventure activities. Our organic/permaculture garden is growing but will eventually feed us and more.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Here you'll get a good dose of, nature, eco-friendliness, conscious living in close range of a wild mountain environment. You'll learn hands on farm skills and how to prepare healthy wholesome meals, when ever possible straight from our organic garden.
Help
Volunteering tasks range from fieldwork, building & renovation, hiking trail maintenance, permaculture gardening, composting, feeding chicken, as well as cleaning of guest cottages, helping in our kitchen etc.
Where possible we all work together in a team, however volunteers need to be able to work on their own and be comfortable with the remoteness of the farm, lack of WiFi and mobile phone connection. Get ready for a Digital Detox!
We are looking for outdoorsy, hands-on volunteers (bring your hiking boots!). Practical experience is a bonus!
Languages spoken
Afrikaans: Fluent
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Volunteers stay in our caravan or safari tent depending numbers of volunteers (max. 4). There's a private open air shower and compost toilet. Healthy, wholesome breakfast and lunch on work days are provided and shared with us Volunteers help with kitchen work. For the evening meal and off-days you cater mostly for yourself. Basic cooking and fridge facility are provided at the Caravan.
What else ...
For your free time there's plenty if hiking trails, yoga & and mediation space or if you have your own transport visit the surrounding villages, wine farms, rock climbing, river rafting, horse riding, zip sliding and other adventure activities.
Public transport from Cape Town to Ashton, then Montagu (our nearest village, 50km from here) is best by bus - please ask us for contacts & timing.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
~5 hours 5 days a week
Feedback (11)
He was total fun and great help. Always ready for the next task and even when working on his own he did go the extra mile! Martin helped us with Trail maintenance, looking after our chicken, mowing the campsite, helping me with erecting a new road sign, cleaning cottages as well as puttying… read more
I learned so much about gardening, road fixing, clearing paths as well as constellations and ayurvedic cooking. I stayed in the tent by the river and enjoyed the (newly renovated) outdoor shower, it was fantastic! On the weekends we went to the… read more
I've never felt 2 weeks being so short in my life. Luckily i caught Jurgen and Ninon when they were in Cape Town,so we all drove up to the place.
Upon arrival for some reason it's as if my phone knew that i would be off the grid and the main functions were not working,but that was not a trash smash but rather a blessing in… read more
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He was total fun and great help. Always ready for the next task and even when working on his own he did go the extra mile! Martin helped us with Trail maintenance, looking after our chicken, mowing the campsite, helping me with erecting a new road sign, cleaning cottages as well as puttying… read more
I learned so much about gardening, road fixing, clearing paths as well as constellations and ayurvedic cooking. I stayed in the tent by the river and enjoyed the (newly renovated) outdoor shower, it was fantastic! On the weekends we went to the… read more
I've never felt 2 weeks being so short in my life. Luckily i caught Jurgen and Ninon when they were in Cape Town,so we all drove up to the place.
Upon arrival for some reason it's as if my phone knew that i would be off the grid and the main functions were not working,but that was not a trash smash but rather a blessing in… read more
Ninon & Jurgen are both very interesting and knowledgeable humans. We had some very deep conversations. I appreciated that they were both pursuing a conscious way of life.
I weeded and mulched almost the entire vegetable garden -… read more
Sleeping in the tent sorrounded by nature made the stay there perfect, the guys are super friendly and willing to… read more
While Workaying at here Tomas helped with the maintenance of our hiking trails, building new sections and also did a lot of shovelling ground and… read more
Thanks for your awesome review about your stay here! We can only echo the joy and gratitude!! what started off with a wobbly miss-identification (two different Jonas' in the system) lead quickly to a supportive, engaged and enthusiastic experience. Thanks for your hard work, building trails through rocky mountains, sifting rocks from… read more
I loved the silence and natural darkness
at night, away from big cities.
The caravan, I slept in, is comfortable, warm and beautiful.
The work was hard, but very enjoyable, because the tasks… read more
An intense two weeks of great conversations, plenty of laughter, great times, awesome music playing guitar, banjo and Bongo drums, great help with a variety of work, from stacking wood, collecting bricks, demolishing an old ceiling, building a new ceiling, little bit of gardening and looking after our chickens and border collies,… read more
