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We are a 4 members family. Love God, nature and simple life. Love living in the farm. Our team is bigger, you will interact with around 4 more people everyday in the farm, they all have a great knowledge in many areas and are very much fun.
We give extra value yo our fruits transforming them in other productos like chocolate and dehydrated fruits, and Also sell them. We welcome tourists on weekends (they can walk a path to visit the farm and then have homemade lunch).
Our home is a paradise as we see it, you wont probably want to leave! The food is one of the most amazing parts, fresh fruit from our plants like 3 kinds of pitahaya, 5 kinds of oranges, pomelo, toronja, mandarin, lemon, cashew (marañon), zapote, banana, plantain, yuca, corn, pumkin, sweet potato, cacao (we make our own chocolate!), between many others are part of our daily life meals. We love creativity in people so be free to have it here!
Now we are accepting new talents that can grow our farm, please send us a message if you have any of this talents.
-Painters and mural artist - Lenguaje teachers (English, German, French) - Martial arts teachers -Chefs -Marketing and photographers - Preschool teacher - Dance teacher (ballet, sals, bachata, tango, etc) - Field work - Tourist guides
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn of a life experiencie in agroecology (in other countries more known as permaculture). In agriculture (the agroecological kind of managing a farm, but also understand about organic and tradicional). In transformation of food we make it the organic way (dryfruit and another meals, we try to use and eat most of our food from the farm / moringa powder / veggie burgers / free to try and experiment) and ecotourism (learn about how we are managing tourism), projects (we need people to help us creating in every area), in the house (we have 3 kids and a close school, we love to have some help in the teaching area).
In general we believe in a sustainable tipe of developing so the whole experience involves a social and environmental compromise, plus sustainable economical activities, we believe this will let us leave the would same and hope better we found it!
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This is a 17 hectares family farm. It has around 100 kinds of fruit and herbs, plus 7 hectares of forest. Is located in Arenillas, in the site Santa Marianita. Here we work in organic farming, ecotourism, and tranformation of fruits, specially drying them.
You can help harvesting the fruits (depending of the season) and un the fabrica, with publicity and photography, and making the farm look Nicer.
We have 3 small Kids in the house, That we hommeschool them. We are looking special help in people very interested un teaching Many skills to them.
We want you to be part of the team and the family for the time you are here, and join us in the area you would like to help depending on your skills.
NOTE: We have a social work going English School, were we teach kids from 5 to 12 years old English. If you like to be part of this project it is an alternative for volunteers in the farm, becouse we have open classes in the farm.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Portuguese: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Private room with share bathroom and shower.
Usually we mostly eat vegetarian, healthy food with the more natural ingredients as possible! But we can accomodate all types of diets.
What else ...
We are located in the panamericana road in the site of Santa Marianita where is the Arenillas river, we also have a river arm ¨El Toro¨in the farm, only 5 minutes away in car to Arenillas town and 30 minutes taking a nice walk, in the provincia of El Oro, were is around 40 really interesting sites to visit (we can help you with that). We are 15 minutes away from the local airpot in Santa Rosa and 45 minutes from Aguasverdes in Peru (1hour and 15 minutes from the airport of Tumbes in Perú). Tree hours aways from the main coastal city of Guayaquil and 3 hours also from Cuenca. We like the volunter kind of work becouse is a great oportunity to exchange knowledge and life experiences, is really fun to have new energy in the house.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a good enought internet yo work, we do sales and all sales work using it.
Space for parking camper vans
We have a parking place
Can possibly accept pets
We welcome pets as long as they are verte Educared becouse se receave tourism in the farm, and also have 3 kids, 1 dog and 6 cats so ir nerds to be very kind.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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I have never stopped doing yoga the way Luna taught me, because she taught me to connect with how my body needs to move, and… read more
I spent 3 weeks at this beautiful place and for me, it was one of the best times in my Latin… read more
Estamos muy agradecidos de haberlos recibido!
Muchas gracias por todos sus aportes.
The food was delicious and the work was not too hard.
Thanks for everything,
Robbie
Las 3 semanas que pase en la finca me la pase muy bien.… read more
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I have never stopped doing yoga the way Luna taught me, because she taught me to connect with how my body needs to move, and… read more
I spent 3 weeks at this beautiful place and for me, it was one of the best times in my Latin… read more
Estamos muy agradecidos de haberlos recibido!
Muchas gracias por todos sus aportes.
The food was delicious and the work was not too hard.
Thanks for everything,
Robbie
Las 3 semanas que pase en la finca me la pase muy bien.… read more
they were damn great! i learned a ton of things, could participate in a wide variety of tasks from harvesting fruit to pouring chocolate and was also welcome to help in matters of my profession. tanya always has an ear for ones needs… read more
They adapted easy and quick to the team, and Also were so fun!
All the family definily miss them.
They helped in the fabrica, farm, School teaching and cleansing...
Never were lazy or picky.
We are súper thankful about them help.
Tanya is a very caring person, very busy, but always took time out to talk with us and help us whenever she could. We had great fun with Tanya and all the workers, making dried fruits, medicinal products, spices, and chocolate (we were able to taste the chocolate).… read more
Gracias por todo lo aprendido y lo compartido: las risas, los momentos duros y difíciles, las experiencias y el amor. Y el cariño que desprendéis por cada poro de vuestros cuerpos.
Gracias por haberme aceptado, apoyado y… read more
Además tiene experiencia en negocios, viajes, y realmente vale la pena escuchar sus consejos pues tiene una gran perspectiva.
Ahora es nuestro gran amigo y lo tenemos en nuestro corazón.
We had the chance to explore many new activities in their paradise with the lovely… read more
They were also respectful and nice to be around! We enjoy to have them homme
The food prepared and… read more
Tanya and I gave lessons in german to… read more
Thank you very much for all your help!
She is also nice to talk to and very respectful!
We love Blaque!!
Gracias por todo! Te esperamos en Ecuador siempre:heart_eyes::blush:
Encontramos jornadas de labor entre risas y mucho aprendisaje; encontramos una familia dispuesta y feliz de mostrarnos, a traves de sus procesos de conexion con la tierra, su sabiduria. Dispuesta, en cualquier momento y a la primera oportunidad; aún en sus tareas más nuevas, a brindarnos esa ventana, en la… read more
Thanks you so much for your help!
The food is a dream and I was free to cook as well making use of the vegetables and fruits that grow in the farm.
Both are generous and eager to make you feel well, that also means… read more
First of all thank you very much for letting us be part of your daily life, routines and family! We learned much about different fruits and about the Ecuadorian way of cooking. Even though Tanya had her baby right the first week we have been… read more
We love this man, he was super helpful and independent, he did a great job as our first teacher.
We are really thankful we had him at home.
Super helpful, creative, artistic, great cooks, lovely and profesional teachers, and also help in website and photos for the farm. Just great to have had them home. Definily recommend them, you will be blessed by having them around.
This farm is beautiful and huge, there are a lot of things to do and learn here. We harvested and made our own cacao/chocolate, tried a lot of new recipes and had all freedom to try new things in the kitchen.
You can see a bunch of wild life, flora and fauna, swim in the river or in the pool… read more
The weather is hot in this part of Ecuador: we can always be outside!
The family is great: we share all meals with Tanya, Jorge and their two children and with Leidi, who always cooks delicious meals. There are always fresh fruits from the farm, tea, natural juices, and food… read more
Fue maravilloso tenerte en casa. Todos te recordamos con mucho cariño y recuerda que en tienes una familia en Ecuador. Eres una excelente colaboradora, con buena energía y le encanta la fruta y el chocolate. Se vió el fruto de su trabajo con un huerto muy chevere del cual ya mismo cosechamos curcuma y tengo muchas hierbas muy… read more
Fue una experiencia muy amable!! Para los 3 semanas fui una parte de familia! :)
Ademas he aprendido muchas cosas nuevas: cosechar mangos, dragonfruit, moringa, .. y he hecho mi propria chocolate!!
Tambien he mejorado mi espanol :)
Muchas gracias… read more
