Profile information
Host rating
100 %
Last replied
16 Apr 2024
Reply rate
100.0 %
Usually responds within 1 day
Feedback
24
Email verified
Badges (2)
Details
Description
We are a Belgian family who have been living in Southern Catalonia, Spain for 15 years now. We live on an organic olive farm (4 hectares), close to the sea (Costa Daurada) and the mountains. We keep bees and have our own local honey, we bake wood-fired organic sourdough bread. We have no mains electricity and water. We get our energy from solar panels and water from a well. We try to live as sustainable as possible. We have 3 dogs.
We are looking for confident, reliable, responsible, flexible, hard working volunteers. We don't accept smokers, drug users and heavy drinkers.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
While helping us you will learn about olive and almond trees, olive oil production, beekeeping, organic gardening, baking artisan bread, sustainable living, the region.
You can learn the basics of some new languages during your stay.
Help
We are looking for one or two people to help us in April.
Weeding, fertilizing and clearing the land, composting, pruning olive and almond trees...
Painting, building, repairing or any other urgent odd tasks.
You will be helping more or less 5 hours/day, 5 days/week.
This is flexible (hours, type of tasks) and can change day by day according to necessities.
I just want to let you know that we are not a business and do not ask help for business activities.
Languages spoken
Catalan: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Accommodation
Little house next to our house.
We insist that you respect your accommodation and that you clean up after yourselves and leave the house completely clean and tidy after your stay. Also to use water and electricity sparingly.
Three meals provided on helping days.
We appreciate you help with preparing meals, getting the table ready, cleaning up after meals,...
What else ...
You can use a mountainbike to explore the beautiful nature and places of our region. The coast and beaches are only 12 kms away. You can also make lovely walks among the numerous olive and almond groves, along the large beaches, in the hills and mountains, along the rice fields in the Ebro-Delta, or in the beautiful barrancas (dry rivers).
You will taste some delicious, typical Catalan, Spanish and Belgian dishes and we will be glad to learn you how to prepare them.
If necessary we can take you by car to the village for shopping.
Experience life in another culture and in plain nature.
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(flexible), 5 days, 25 hrs a week
Feedback (11)
They had good ideas and were always thinking of how to make/do things better.
They're kind, respectful, correct and helpful and we would not hesitate to welcome them again.
Recommended.
Feedback
These are extra optional ratings when members leave feedback. The average rating left for each option is displayed.
Accuracy of profile:
(5.0)
Cultural exchange:
(5.0)
Communication:
(5.0)
They had good ideas and were always thinking of how to make/do things better.
They're kind, respectful, correct and helpful and we would not hesitate to welcome them again.
Recommended.
They made me feel incredibly welcome and at home as soon as I arrived. Their house and land is beautiful - in peaceful countryside but still close to villages and the coast - and I felt incredibly lucky to be staying in a super pretty separate guesthouse with its own kitchen and bathroom. Equally,… read more
I will never forget this first experience !
We miss her and we(including our dogs) would not hesitate to take her on again.… read more
Our dogs will miss the fond touch of her fingers.
Thank you for your help Signe and maybe we'll meet again. All the best!
Thank you for helping us, Hilke. Good luck.
Thank you for all your help, Evelien. Good luck!
Also has a good insight in all sorts of things. Someone whom you can learn from.
You will be missed,… read more
Thank you for helping us, Kevin. We wish you all the best for the future.
