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Host rating
100 %
Last replied
6 May 2025
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Description
Jurgen, two border collies: Waya & Hakan, two cats: Denali & Balobi, as well as a coop full of free range chicken.
We live totally off-grid at our eco-friendly Mountain Retreat , a down to earth guest farm.
It's all about digital detox eco-tourism, hiking trails, rock climbing, mountain trekking, canyoning and then some adventure activities.
We've got an organic/permaculture garden to feed us as far as possible.
Help is needed, simply to maintaining this dream... and then some awesome conversations, healthy meals and the great outdoors in you free time.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
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
Interests
Mountain
Hiking
Camping
Nature
Gardening
Cooking & food
Architecture
Carpentry
Hitchhiking
Music
Sustainability
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 and painting, hiking trail maintenance, permaculture gardening, composting, feeding chicken, preparing shared meals 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, limited WiFi yet no mobile phone connection. Get ready for a Digital Detox (if you choose)!
We are looking for outdoorsy, hands-on volunteers (bring your hiking boots!). Practical experience is a bonus!
If you are interested send us your e-mail address and we'll send you a proper application form and more in-depth info so you get a better idea about
Please do not send your CV nor AI edited/assisted text - we want to know the real you!
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Volunteers stay in our caravan or safari dome tent, depending numbers of volunteers (max. 4). There are hot open air showers and compost toilets. Healthy, wholesome breakfast and lunch on work days are provided and shared with us. Volunteers help in our home kitchen. Evening meals and off-days you cater mostly for yourself. Basic cooking and fridge facility are provided at the Volunteer Caravan.
What else ...
For your free time there's plenty if hiking trails, sport climbing, yoga & and mediation space or if you have your own transport visit the surrounding villages, wine farms, more sport 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
Can host digital nomads
You tell us what you require as a Digital Normad and we check if we can accommodate it...
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (12)
Vielen Dank an Jürgen und Ninon für… read more
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
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Vielen Dank an Jürgen und Ninon für… read more
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
