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UPDATE MARCH 2024
Hello travellers out there!
We are currently looking for volunteers who'd like to JOIN US FROM THE 15th-18th OF MARCH onwards.
As we we'll hold a small Spring Equinox Celebration in our garden (on Saturday the 23rd) and could do with some help preparing the grounds for the beautiful little gathering :)
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After a long winter break, we're getting ready to welcome new travellers into our little garden paradise again!
We are always looking for motivated, creative and enthusiastic people out there who'd like to help us creating & maintaining our organic garden project.
Spring is awakening and there's a lot to do outside in the garden!
Getting the garden ready for a new growing season. Sowing, planting, weeding and mulching.
Taking care of all the baby fruit trees that we've been planting. Watering.
Maintenance of the different land terraces (clearing, taking down shrubs and dead wood)
Helping out with production for our organic/vegetarian/vegan café
Helping us host small cultural events in our garden.....
And bits and peaces around the house and land :)
This is one of the prettiest times of the year to join us!
The garden is awakening and we can dive into it's beauty :)
NEWS FROM THIS SEASON:
-This spring 2024 we'll be holding up to 2 events in our garden monthly.
Dance & Brunch Sessions and outdoor cinema nights with vegan 3-course dinners...
So exciting to host people again! :)
-We decided to shut down our organic/veg(etari)an café in the local town in June . So it's the last 3 months with our little local business, if you want to get a chance to sniff at it before it disappears...
Towards the end of May, we'll need help moving out of the café and transferring my rawfood kitchen from the café to our Secret Garden :)
-Our well ran out of water last summer, so we are currently living with as little water as possible. Long extensive showers will not be possible this season! This is a challenge for all of us, to learn to live frugal with the resources we have at hand! ;)
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And now my other presentation from times before....... ;)
About myself:
I love my life, in this quite and peaceful bit of land. Hidden between a tiny hill and endless fields, in the middle of no-where. My parents found it now 33 years ago (just before I was born), and I've been grown up here.
After many years of traveling overseas and in Europe (by bike, couch-surfing, wwoofing, helping in other projects, growing and collecting inspirations...), I eventually came back to settle down here in this little paradise. I realized, this region has so much to offer! The sea and the mountains. Deep forests and cliffs.
So here I am again. Creating my own paradise now.
I live in a wooden hut, with solar panels and water from our own well. The shower is in the garden (with just cold water), the toilet is in the woods. I sleep in a wooden gipsy-caravan and there's a little wooden hut and a tent for our guests.
A couple of years ago we started a COB-construction on site. We built a new room attached to the wooden house. A new kitchen made with mud-and-hay walls! It's so beautiful to build with your own hands and with such natural and super local materials! We finished our first COB- construction project but are already dreaming of new ones! So we might offer some 'hands-to-the-mud' soon again! ;)
I try to live a simple life, connected to the presence and nature. I run a little vegetarian/vegan and organic café in the nearest town and I sometimes organise events and other creative projects.
I love gardening! Collecting seeds and sowing them. Harvesting and eating. Preserving the harvest, handcrafting and creating. I'm a creative and enthusiastic Vegan and Raw food cook and love sharing my food and spoiling my guests! ;p
I am an active, positive minded and creative soul. I dream big and work hard to reach my goals, but always taking my time to take in all the beautiful details on the way, the unexpected surprises and gifts life brings alone at any step!
I move around cycling and love the freedom of it! I once did a looong biketrip through Europe and dream of another one in the near future. I love sweet waters, hiking to my favourite waterfalls, swimming and having adventures, canoe-trips, etc. I am a passionate dancer (free style, just dancing life!), LP's collector and get deeply connected to good music. I enjoy traveling by train, hitchhiking, cycling and yes, I love hosting travellers too! ;)
The land we live on is quite big and I want to transform it into a wonderful and magic garden! With abundance of food, flowers and bees! Cosy corners and creative details. Guest cabins and spaces for outdoor workshops.
The land is divided into a few terraces, with ancient and abandoned olive trees.
I would love to share this place with travellers, nature-enthusiasts and let's-do-it-people!
Those out there, who are willing to help with some work building, in the garden and around the house, will enjoy wonderful organic and vegan food, dis-connection in nature, skillsharing and all of it in a privileged area!
We live surrounded by medieval villages within walking distance. I also have bicycles I can lend out to discover the region. We live in the outskirts of our village, just a 15 minutes walk away from the little medieval village. Where you will also find a pretty interesting iberian excavation site! Worth seeing! :)Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiquesAide avec des éco-projetsJardinageBricolage et constructionCuisine/repas pour la familleAide à la maisonEntretien généralObjectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
You will be able to dive into a beautiful nature-connected lifestyle, close to nature and its cycles. We share everything with you. Our lifestyle, food, stories, culture, the gardens and spaces we created. You will be able to dis-connect and enjoy a peaceful surrounding, great and vital food, and learn while being active and a part of it all!
We can share our knowledge in organic gardening (in harmony with the cosmic influences and permaculture thoughts), vegan food and vital rawfood, languages (I speak german, catalan, spanish, swedish, english and a bit of french, handcrafts (I love knitting, making macramé jewels, creating dreamcatchers, binding books, carving linoleum prints...), creative projects in general, COB building...
As we live in the heart of Catalunya, you'll be able to get to know this interesting culture more. This is a really cultural area with many beautiful things going on! Organic markets, antique markets, food and events, historical villages and the sea, water sports and hiking routes....
This region has soo much to offer! And our land and homestay too!! ;)Aide
Spring has just arrived and there's a lot to do outside in the garden!
Getting the garden ready for a new growing season. Sowing, planting, weeding and mulching.
Taking care of all the baby fruit trees that we've been planting. Watering.
Maintenance of the different land terraces (clearing, taking down shrubs and dead wood)
Helping out with production for our organic/vegetarian/vegan café
Helping us host small cultural events in our garden.....
And bits and peaces around the house and land :)
We are also always looking for people skilled in woodwork/ carpentry and with some building experience! As we need to build and repair infrastructure. Also those interested in gardening and permaculture and crafty projects :)
Motivated and enthusiastic people are super welcome! :)Langues
Langues parlées
Catalan: Courant
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Courant
Swedish: Courant
Français: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
I love languages! :D I lived a couple of years in Sweden and I always get really excited when I can talk Swedish with someone and improve my language skills with native speakers! :) Last year I started learning french with Duolingo and I'd love to deepen my french skills too. I find other languages, dialects and their historical backgrounds really fascinating and wold love to learn a few languages more ;P I am currently learning french -mostly using Duolingo ;) but practicing with some french people would be lovely!Hébergement
We can accommodate 1 or 2 travellers. For guests we have a little and cosy wooden hut and a big, comfy and secluded tent. The hut is on the second terrace of our olive tree land. Among trees and singing birds, close to my parents house. :) The tent has more private space around it, hidden among trees. There's a sleeping compartment with a comfy mattress in and an entrance room with a little table and some cushions. Both accommodations have no water nor electricity, but there are solar lamps and a few battery run fairy lights for extra cosyness! We share all the meals in our garden or when the weather is colder (or it rains) in our living room in the bigger wooden hut. We don't have much electricity (as we produce our own with solar panels), but you can charge any electronic devices (such as your phone, laptop..) in the bigger hut. We can provide you with blankets, sheets and towels!
Autres infos...
We are a bit of-grid, but there is ONE bus line from the nearest town La Bisbal (or from Torroella de Montgrí) that can bring you to Ullastret. The actual timetable can be found on the SARFA webpage. We can also pick you up from the bus station in Vulpellac (if you travel from Girona by bus)...
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Espace pour garer des vans
Our land is big and offers beautiful corners for those travelling with their own vehicles or nomadic homes. You can stay on site in a safe surrounding and enjoy the garden around! :)
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
We have a very sweet dog- Maya, and a wild cat- Tjarna. If you are traveling with your own pet and it respects other 'host'-pets and the plants and garden paths around, then I welcome you! :)
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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What an amazing time I have had with you the last 4 weeks!!
You are a great and loving host, who made me feel right at home from the first minute!
Playful, thoughtful, cuddly, friendly, in a… read more
As soon as he cycled into my garden and I saw his big smile and felt his enthusiasm, I felt at ease. Sorry for steeling your words here, but I guess the feeling was mutual ;p
Michiel was the first volunteer of this season -after my long hosting-winterbreak, and I couldn't have asked for more!
He helped me… read more
The atmosphere of the land, the sun in the mornings, all the singing birds, the clear night skies; it was all just a treat.
And speaking about treating...the food Jaqueline provides is just jammie 😋. I never had to worry about 'the… read more
It was quite a challenging experience, for which I was prepared for, seeing that I had previously been through similar.
I ended up staying in the hut on the 2nd or 3rd terrace level...
There were many many mosquitoes trying to get into the mosquito net while… read more
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What an amazing time I have had with you the last 4 weeks!!
You are a great and loving host, who made me feel right at home from the first minute!
Playful, thoughtful, cuddly, friendly, in a… read more
As soon as he cycled into my garden and I saw his big smile and felt his enthusiasm, I felt at ease. Sorry for steeling your words here, but I guess the feeling was mutual ;p
Michiel was the first volunteer of this season -after my long hosting-winterbreak, and I couldn't have asked for more!
He helped me… read more
The atmosphere of the land, the sun in the mornings, all the singing birds, the clear night skies; it was all just a treat.
And speaking about treating...the food Jaqueline provides is just jammie 😋. I never had to worry about 'the… read more
It was quite a challenging experience, for which I was prepared for, seeing that I had previously been through similar.
I ended up staying in the hut on the 2nd or 3rd terrace level...
There were many many mosquitoes trying to get into the mosquito net while… read more
Nico and I agreed on an arrival date and we were awaiting him here.
We had written and even talked over phone and it all seemed alright.
He never came, gave no more signals, no messages.... we still don't know what happened.
Rianne came all the way from the Netherlands -cycling on her own- and landed with her two-wheeled companion here in my little paradise like out of destiny. She wanted to stay for a few weeks but they turned into two months! And her presence felt so harmonious and right, from the very first day we sat out on the veranda talking.
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He helped us taking down some… read more
And all this in just five… read more
I found there good company indeed, both from the host and from the rest of rest that I have met there!
I enjoyed the work, we have just syarted the foundations for the new compost toilet, and the work in the garden was peacefull.
surrounded by nature,… read more
Jaqueline was such a lovely host, I felt very comfortable in her little green paradise. Working with my hands in the middle of nature was a huge pleasure, even if the wild nature was a bit unruly at first. I liked that Jaqueline had ideas about… read more
Thank you so much for helping out in my project these past weeks.
You are a brave young person. First time volunteering with workaway, first time hitchhiking around to visit me in our little café and to discover the region around my place. You made the most out of your time here and I'm glad you tried hard to help out in all the… read more
Nora is such a smart, bright, sensible and open-minded soul! She really dived into our place, facing all the challenges that come with a simpler lifestyle, sharing her thoughts and needs and adapting to different situations.
She is a strong and powerful young being. Ready… read more