Help with permaculture at a family-owned organic farm in Lombok, Indonesia.

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Hi!
We are William & Amina and we both decided to leave our student life in France two years ago to start a new life in Lombok. We live full time on Amina's parents organic farm/ homestay. A few years ago, this place was an abandoned cashew orchard and now, we have build 5 wooden bungalows that we rent for travelers.

As for the garden, we are developing permaculture techniques to grow our vegetables. The dream would be to be able to eat everyday from our garden.
Arten von Arbeit
Gartenarbeit
Landarbeit
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
Here you will have the opportunity to learn about the rich culture and exchange with locals. We only work with people from our village and are very thankful to have such an amazing community! The locals are extremely kind and will welcome you with open hearts.
Arbeit
PERMACULTURE
We need help in the garden! The farm is located in an extremely dry area (except during the rainy season, there's no water here). As if this wasn't challenging enough, our soil is very poor, dry and rocky... So you've guessed it! Our place is the perfect place for permaculture!

Update : As of now we are only looking for people who have had good experience in permaculture as we are expanding our farm & need advice on how to proceed.

FRIDAY CLEAN UPS
We created a trash cleaning project, so every Friday, you will be joining us for our weekly clean-up. We always pick a different spot and our goal is to exchange with the villagers about plastic and pollution and also find new solutions to reduce our waste.
Gesprochene Sprachen
French English Indonesian
Unterkunft
We have a bungalow for volunteers.It has a double bed and its own bathroom.
The bungalow is designed for two.
Was noch ...
We are located in the north of lombok where the Rinjani Volcano stands. There are a lot of trekking activities around our farm. Plenty of rivers and waterfalls are near by and black sanded beaches are just off our farm site. A little bit further off (1 hour away) are beautiful white sanded beaches.
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- Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
- Wir besitzen Tiere
- Wir sind Raucher
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
zwei
Arbeitszeiten
5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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09.10.2019

Vom Workawayer (Alice Sophie & Gareth) für Host

We had a fantastic stay with William, Amina and their family, the work they are doing in north Lombok is an inspiration. Not only are they running a 5-star holiday homestay but the family also work tirelessly to maintain a permaculture farm in a very challenging environment and are dedicated to increasing awareness of sustainable living within… read more

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31.12.2017

Vom Host für Workawayer (Emma & Jack )

Jack & Emma are a cute and very friendly couple.
We had them one week in our farm and they worked very hard to build a permaculture area. They are very hard working and love what they do ! When they were unsure of certain things, they made researches and plans and really worked autonomously.
Hope you enjoyed your time in Indonesia and we hope to… read more

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30.12.2017

Vom Workawayer (Emma & Jack ) für Host

We stayed at the farm for a week - and our experience was wonderful. The food and accommodation (and daytrips!) were beautiful and we were very much treated as a part of the family. We were given a patch of land which we designed and worked on according to permaculture principles. The family gave us the freedom to work independently, which finally… read more

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19.12.2017

Vom Workawayer (Tamara & Joshua R) für Host

The farm is a beautiful place, we stayed there for a week and we had a good experience. The food was amazing, and the bungalows were really cool. This was our first permaculture experience and we are really happy because we learned a lot.
Thanks for everything to all the family
Tamara and Joshua

(Gut )

02.12.2017

Vom Host für Workawayer (dylan)

There are no words to describe Dylan and Auriane. They were our first volunteers and set the bar very high for the others ! They stayed two months in our farm in Indonesia and helped so much ! Auriane is a super gardener and cook (always trying new recipies and made yummy food) and Dylan can do anything with a few screws and wood. They connected… read more

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19.11.2017

Vom Workawayer (dylan) für Host

What a lovely month in the organic farm! We enjoy so much that is wasn't easy to leave. The atmosphere, the food, the family, the village and the landscape are amazing, we feel very free, and everythings is so easy, just ask and create! People there are open minded, the staff easy going, and the jobs very flexible. The volunteers will need to… read more

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19.11.2017

Vom Host für Workawayer (Hannes)

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19.11.2017

Vom Workawayer (Hannes) für Host

Williams farm in the north of lombok is very beautiful. You have a nice view on the vulcano and you can walk to a beach in around 1:15h.
William is a very happy guy he has a lot of different ideas and is always open for new projects. He is very active and always doing stuff on the farm or teaches english to the locals (send your class a hello from … read more me)
The parents of Williams girlfriend (Tikno and Sophie) own the farm and they are living there as a big family with around eleven people. They provide you with three very tasty meals a day (they only speak french on the table) and my accomodation was a nice hut with my own bathroom.

My project was to design and build an outdoor kitchen. Sadly I couldn't finish the project because of miscommunication.
I started working on monday afternoon and worked 5+ hours everyday and from my perspective more than I had to. It was quite hard for me do adapt to the indonesian workstyle. It is very unefficient because there is always something/someone missing or someone is coming and wants to make it different (and you have to start over again) so you have to be very flexible. Flexibility is of course necassary but the level on Williams farm was to high for me and for effective working conditions which was frustrating sometimes.

So on saturday after I was told to design a waste area and William showed me some "cheap leftover wood". I had already cutted everything and the first four screws in when Sophie came and suggested to cut the wood in half to save some. ...Good idea but a bit late.
I was annoyed and I thought ok instead of getting in a bad mood I will stop now I worked enough this week anyway and I will take my days off now. Two hours later Sophie came and told me it will not work out and I should go. She couldn't see enough progress(" Look, you haven't done anything"). (We made the preparations, planning and floor, went to the city to buy materials and tools and calculated how much wood we need and ordered it.)
I told her building a kitchen is a lot of planning and calculating which you apparently don't "see".
Her answer was literally "we don't need someone to think we need someone to work". And she wanted me to leave directly. I negotiated and I could stay till sunday morning (which was in my opinion still not fair for the work I did).

I know I am not a professional and the week was not very efficient, I have building experience but of course I need more time to plan and calculate stuff (especially if everything gets changed all the time) than someone who already did it 100times. I am sorry that I couldn't help you and I hope your kitchen will become a nice place to try new recipes.
The next time you are not happy with a volunteer: speak with them early so you can find solutions together.

To other volunteers I suggest to make projects where you are not depending on special tools, materials or other workers and where you can actually see the progress as an amateur. So everyone understands that you are working. If you can speak french you will probably be better integrated.

There was some misunderstaning but I still enjoyed most of the time on your farm and the good vibes in your family.
I wish you the best with your farm and homestay project and I think you are on a good way. Have a good life.

Hannes

(Gut )

19.11.2017

Vom Host für Workawayer (Veronika & Antonio)

It was a pleasure having Antonio and Veronika as our first workawayers ! They are very friendly, helped a lot in our farm and connected well with the locals. We would love to have them again in Lombok ! :)

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06.11.2017

Vom Workawayer (Veronika & Antonio) für Host

It was a good experience for us. We learned a lot as there are many projects running and we could be part of any of them.
You can apply any additional skills you may have and you will be welcomed to do so.
As we were the first volunteers, the structure of daily tasks was sometimes slightly unorganised and in the result we needed to improvise in… read more

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