A small group in an offgrid farmhouse, rewilding / farmwork, in beautiful Andaluz mountains, Spain

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  Description

  From 22 April - 5th May, a mixed bag of help on a re-wilding project as part of a group of 5/6 helpers. A beautiful mountain valley, a basic off grid house to yourselves. You definitely need to be there the day before ( 21 April ); other dates might ( might ) be negotiable.
  
  
  I have a piece of land in the mountains and am trying hard to rewild it a bit, though nature is resisting my efforts... I need help planting trees, digging, mending fences, felling trees, chasing deer, wrestling wild boar ( optional ), irrigating, whitewashing, oh, etc.
  
  In return you get to experience the realities of that romantic notion 'off grid'; you live in a very beautiful quiet valley; three workaway couples have met here and then got married ( just saying - you don't have to get married ); you live in a house of your own; you experience rural Spain.
  
  You all live together and share looking after the house etc; you get a budget to spend how you like but which should be enough for a simple vegetarian diet for three meals; some groups have gone for the wine diet instead - your choice.
  
  And you really need to read the whole profile. No. Really. You do. Just, damn it, read the whole profile. I will know.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide dans une ferme

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  This is a small mountain village, a world far away from tourist Spain. It's very very quiet, but equally very friendly. You'll be greeted by everybody - they would love it if you can chat to them (though the local dialect / accent may make that a challenge...) . It's surrounded by a National Park, walking routes, a river, hills and mountains, forest land. If you want to see just how calm village life is, it's perfect; if you want to get right away from everything, it's perfect. You might get married.
  
  It's a great base for traveling round Andalucia - you can stay on longer if you want.
  
  If I'm here I can also teach about eco-construction techniques, shiatsu, tapas, international education, and, well, e.g. Japanese theatre ?

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  Aide

  We'll plan to do four days of help then a day off then four days of help, etc, for two weeks. For the first couple of hours each day we'll do just farm jobs - cleaning and painting irrigation tanks, cutting down trees to make into firewood, digging holes, mending fences.
  
  After a coffee break there should often be more choice for the last two hours. Eg if you're more interested in agriculture there should be lots of help with trees - planting, pruning, grafting, irrigating, potting plants etc. And if you're interested in building there will be whitewashing, making steps, cutting paths, building a verandah, etc.
  
  Then it's lunch and the rest of the day is yours. Some afternoons if you want I may teach about basic eco-construction techniques ( walls, rocket stoves, cobbling, sandbag walls...) and you can practise them if you like ( it's not rocket science ). Or you can get the wood fired pizza oven working, go to the river, build a solar water heater, watch many many birds, climb mountains, pick fruit, make limoncello, fresh orange juice, give or get shiatsu, learn Spanish... stuff you can't do without several permits in civilisation.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Espagnol: Courant
  Français: Intermédiaire
  Japonais: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  You'll have the farmhouse to yourselves ( I live elsewhere, in the village itself ). It's off grid and basic. So that means just enough 12v solar electricity to charge phones/laptops and a few lights at night; bucket baths not showers ( and you need to heat the water on a stove ); recycled furniture; a simple kitchen . We provide beds and basic bedding ( sheets, blankets, pillows ); two single rooms, two big double rooms ( and a Workaway-built cabin, or tents, if you really need your own space...), wood stove, pizza oven, patio, hammock, plunge pool, nearby river to swim in, an excellent library of books.
  
  Note - climate change - you will need to be very conscious of how much water you use for washing etc.
  
  The shop is twenty minutes walk away, where there's also a train station, bus stop, several bars.

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  Autres infos...

  You can get to the village of Jimera de Libar by a lunchtime bus three days a week to / from Ronda, and there are two trains a day to the nearby station. It's easy to travel from here to the big places like Sevilla, Granada, Cordoba if you want to make it a base for getting to see Andalucia. It's a bus ride to Ronda from Malaga which has cheap flights from almost everywhere.
  
  This is a flexible workaway; we can negotiate almost everything about how / when / where; days on or off; tasks to do.
  
  Sorry, but I really hate the general cut-and-paste applications - if you want me to take an application seriously, your message must include the words ' off grid, drought, flexible' . Thank for reading to the end !

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  As long as they don't chase neighbour's sheep or want to sleep on the sofas

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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