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Our off-grid house and lab is a refurbished stone ruin from 1769. Like an earthship it's ingrained in the hill. It has stone and rock walls for a pleasant indoor climate during hot summers and a wood stove for coziness during cold winters.
It has a permaculture garden and 4 ha of olive and almond trees. It's surrounded by forests, hills and a fantastic, wild river to swim. A mountain-park is near where you can do hiking and climbing. A great international, young and alternative community is in the area.
Our mission is to establish a lab for sustainable and resilience development. We do low-tech, off-grid tech, smart farming, farm hacks, DIY, open source, design thinking, permaculture, green building.
We are LGBTQ friendly and expect you to be so, too. We follow a mindful and nature-human-inclusive spirit.
We are looking for working guests to help in simple and/or more challenging tasks:
- fixing, painting and building (e.g. our terrace roof)
- improving our infrastructure (water and irrigation system, solar power system, p2p internet)
- building an aquaponics system (we already have a prototype that is developed by a small, international community of practice that frequently meets online)
We offer our place to people with and without craft skills. Minimum stay is one week. Long stays are possible.
We also offer sustainable and resilience development residencies to students, engineers, hackers and makers who want to engage in open source prototyping. We form part of the Low-tech Lab Community.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
- learn about aquaponics! (we will guide you!)
- get familiar with sustainable off-grid living, low-tech and resilience concepts
Help
Some crafting skills are helpful but not essential
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Accommodation
You live in the guest building and can use house and ground. You share kitchen, bathroom, living room, the workshop and the land with others.
What else ...
You can do swimming, running, hiking, mountain biking, bird watching, etc.
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 4G router, but the internet is not 100% stable, especially on rainy days.
Space for parking camper vans
There is enough space for your campervan, including very cozy, intimate spots with nice views. But you need to be a good driver, because the way is a 8 km bumpy dirt track.
Can possibly accept pets
Only pets that are not harmful to the local fauna and flora. A lot of birds and wild life is around.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
20h/week
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Mature and emotionally intelligent, he showed initiative when working on creative projects.
We enjoyed chatting about interesting subjects, he quickly became a good friend and our… read more
After lots of travel and volunteering experience themselves, Ross and Mairi know how to host perfectly - answering every question and providing all the information to make you comfortable and at home. They were so proactive in providing for me, and were very open in how even they were adapting… read more
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Mature and emotionally intelligent, he showed initiative when working on creative projects.
We enjoyed chatting about interesting subjects, he quickly became a good friend and our… read more
After lots of travel and volunteering experience themselves, Ross and Mairi know how to host perfectly - answering every question and providing all the information to make you comfortable and at home. They were so proactive in providing for me, and were very open in how even they were adapting… read more
