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Hello! We are Manolo and Merle, an architect and a chef/nutritionist, with a project underway on a farm at the foot of the Tramuntana: a future meeting place and educacional center about organic farming, bio-construction and vegan lifestyle.
Come help us 4 mornings a week, in exchange for accommodation and vegan meals on working days.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are offering this cultural exchange to learn together the ongoing task of bioconstruction, and at the same time help to develope the permaculture project, with the plantation of fruit-trees and vegetable gardening, which we are starting now. -)
Help
You will be alongside us:
So far, we have started with the refurbishment and extension of the existing finca, a stone cottage that dates back to around 1900. Until now we have been busy building the timber structures and stuffing the roofs with straw, posidonia (neptune grass, a type of eco-insulation sourced from plants that grow in the sea) and covering it with Arab tiles with the help of some friends. We have already infilled the structure with a light clay (straw-clay mix), prepared on site and compressed in the shuttering. Now we are doing the mud and lime plastering and later we will be making the floors of lime and/or earth, and parallel start the whole process with another volume (wood-structure, straw-clay-filling, etc)
For these jobs, rendering these with mud and lime and making the floors, as well as the various on-going carpentry tasks, we are looking for volunteers!
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
As accommodation, we can offer the upper floor of the existing finca (about 20m2) together with a place downstairs with a woodstove, equipped with five mattresses, an armchair, a table, chairs and a gas stove; but there is also space for tents and motorhome. If you are coming in one of these, please check for space before arrival!
Plant based, mostly whole foods as well as local and organic wherever possible.
What else ...
On the farm we do have electricity and a refrigerator since some weeks for the first time in 4 years! :-). But we recommend to bring a power bank to charge your mobile if you go some days hiking In the mountains. The lamps here are solar or camping lamps (also recommended to bring a headlamp for you excursions). We take the water with bucket and pulley from the cistern and we use a dry toilet and and semi-outdoor shower (a self-made cabin). Water can be heated on the gas stove. And finally, we ask not to consume products of animal origin within the farm.
We are waiting for you in Mallorca!
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
6 horas, 4 días a la semana
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We were happy and very grateful having her some weeks among us.
I learnt loaads of things about bio construction and couldn't have dreamed of a more amazing project to discover this !! The house is amazing, the project too. Merle and Manolo are super welcoming and eager to share.
Merle is the best vegan cook ever woaaaw !!
Loads of fuerzas to finish the house… read more
We spent the majority of our working time with Manolo who is a very kind, cheerful and energetic person. He is very knowledgeable about eco building, Architecture and ALL of the processes involved. It was a pleasure to work with him. In the 6 weeks Louis was there, there was a variety of tasks both… read more
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We were happy and very grateful having her some weeks among us.
I learnt loaads of things about bio construction and couldn't have dreamed of a more amazing project to discover this !! The house is amazing, the project too. Merle and Manolo are super welcoming and eager to share.
Merle is the best vegan cook ever woaaaw !!
Loads of fuerzas to finish the house… read more
We spent the majority of our working time with Manolo who is a very kind, cheerful and energetic person. He is very knowledgeable about eco building, Architecture and ALL of the processes involved. It was a pleasure to work with him. In the 6 weeks Louis was there, there was a variety of tasks both… read more
During her stay she helped us plastering the clay walls with traditional lime plaster and digging a trench for the electric cables going from the solar panels to the house as well as making biochar and planting our very… read more
First of all, I met some wonderful people. The exchange amongst the Workawayers was pretty intense since almost everything was shared. It's safe to say that it never got boring, yet simultaneously there was plenty of time to wind… read more
I joined a wonderful group of people who welcomed me wholeheartedly from the very beginning, and honestly, it didn't take much to become part of their daily routine. Starting the day with yoga on the terrace overlooking the sunrise and ending it by the… read more
We were supposed to stay for 3 weeks and ended up leaving after one.
We enjoyed this week as the project carries a lot of sense, the place is beautiful, and living in a community with the… read more
We stayed at Manolo and Merle's Finca for 1 month in september / october and we genuinely couldn't be happier. We worked for 6 hours a day, 4 days a week and some days can be intense but always rewarding when you see the end result and when you have Merle's delicious lunch!!… read more
I ended up staying one month in the finca, even tho I was planing to stay 3 weeks. I had a pleasent and meaningful stay. You are very good people in the heart, I… read more
Unfortunately he had to leave us a bit earlier than… read more
it was a lot of fun to work at the house just with natural materials. was always something different to do. the whole place got a very good energy and I love the whole project..
it's intense to stay there with different people but it's… read more
We did comunicate together more in italian, as the most part of the group were italians at that time (and I love your language!), but they made an effort to learn and practice… read more
We really enjoyed it! Highly recommended experience for those who want to meet new people from all over the world and live in a beautiful landscape surrounded by nature in the center of Mallorca.
We had a lot of fun working together with Manolo and the other… read more
She was always happy to help and eager to try different tasks and techniques, while being a good learner and working very precise.
We loved her positivity and good mood, which is one of the most important ˋingredientˋ people can bring to our place :) And thanks to her communicative and open… read more
My stay started mid- January this year. I arrived in Palma in the morning and had the opportunity to drop off my stuff at Manolo’s office. I was welcomed with open arms.
Manolo is a very weary-hearted and open person. During my stay we could get… read more
I enjoyed every day at the farm. Manolo and Merle are super friendly, open minded and so helpful. I usually worked 4 days/ week with different tasks. They taught me a lot about sustainable living, farming and gardening and after work we always got such an amazing… read more
They are really beautiful people, I felt this place like home since the first days.
We learnt to work with clay, straw, mud, to make pilars, isolate walls, we also did some work in the vegetable garden.
Merle's food is just the best!!
The place is wonderfull, you can start a… read more
You will learn so much about eco-building : making cement, brick-building, plastering with clay or lime,... I could say so much more.
And a thing that I also appreciate is Manolo's leading ! He spends a lot of time and energy for the volunteers to be confident… read more
I stayed with Manolo, Merle and Johanna about 3 weeks, absolutely one of the best experiences of my whole life! In the end there was 5 workawayers working at the same time with me, and I can't believe how good can group dynamic be! Manolo is so good at holding the group together, giving clear instructions for the work,… read more
Manolo and Merle were super welcoming and provide everything we need!
The job mainly consisted in building a roof, making concrete, mixing clay with straw and… read more
We wish you all the best and hope to see you again one day.
We spent two weeks in September with them and learned so much about cob buildings! The works is very interesting and on some days physically demanding too but - oh boy - Merle´s food lets you forget the hard work in an instant! One of my friends owns a vegan restaurant with pretty high class food options - I… read more
You were a pleasure to have around and we hope you had a great experience doing your first ever workaway with us.
We wish you all the best and hope to see you again soon.
