Ecuador
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This is a place in the heart of Ecuador, in the rural area of Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas, we truly believe that we can live integrated with nature, in a community with other living things, and with other people. In search of new ways of regenerating the ecosystems, we find Analog Forestry (AF) methodology we take this as our flag and our principles also to give real value to our biodiversity.
Also, this place will give you a lot of fun and relaxation, we have trails for hiking, kayaking, a ping pong table, animals, also a lot of hammocks places to read, and more.
In the path of thriving in the community, we are giving experiences to the neighbors especially to the kids, to enhance their respect for nature, we are part of the Forest School network so we need help to create activities to learn by watching movies, birdwatch traveling, classes of English, activities of composting, planting and harvest, activities of writing and reading all this surrounding by nature and using various technics of art.
We are looking for volunteers like you that want to re-connect and get full immersion with nature. and also exchange experience with eco-building, bamboo building, and anything related, schooling, art, cooking, or anything you want to share with us and the community.
We can share with you various forms of restoration especially Analog forestry methodology regenerating new forests, and also complexifying others that will take over 100 or more years with the natural process. Here on our land, we have a place defined for conservation botanical garden, other for the production of multi crops like cacao, mangosteen, and others designated for a food forest.
We work in collaboration with REFA and other farmers to protect nature, in our network we have various similar projects in different parts of the world, and we have connected some of our volunteers with other farms in the world.
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
We are one of the demonstrative places in Ecuador of Analog Forestry. Here also travellers can integrate with ancestral community of Tsachilas. Also is a strategical place if you want to travel because Santo Domingo is in the middle of coast and mountains.
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
The project has 10 years in forest regeneration but we are now in a new path of community enhancement and eco-tourism, and we need help in this process.
We need help in:
- Architects, other kind of builders, landscaping and designers.
- Industrial Engineer, cooker or chef and anyone who knows how to add value to natural products (Important this is not for paying costumers this is only for improving our food process)
- Anyone that wants to get hand dirty and want to learn/help gardening and building an analog forest.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
This host offers a language exchange
Here you can practice Spanish, and we are interested in practice English and Italian.
We have 3 fully equipped bedrooms in the common house with shared bathrooms. And a full equipped house for 4 people. In each option they have all access to kitchen stuff. We will give accommodation and 3 meals for our guests, our ingredients are harvest in place.
We will give accommodation and 3 meals for our guests, we can adapt to be vegetarian or all foods. Also they can harvest food that grows here, they have their own kitchen so they can cook any time.
We love volunteers and we enjoy sharing with them every time, after a lot of discussions internally and asking also the volunteers that are here we as a family make a decision: we are going to charge 15 dollars for each volunteer to stay here for the weekend, it is a small amount of money for awesome food and use of all the installations, also this is a way to the incentive you to explore even more Ecuador, for this, we create a brochure of options so you can visit on the time off.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
We have space for people in their vans, feel free to ask anything in that manner
We can accept people with pets, but they have to be social because here we have 3 dogs, and also we dont, in night time you must put some collar because we want wild animals can have their time.
More than two
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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