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Help on our family farm in Arenillas, Ecuador

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 3 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    We are a 4 members family. Love spiritual life, nature and purity.
    Love living in nature!
    Our team is bigger, you will interact with other members of the team, as our elders and people that comes and support for days the work in the farm.

    We give extra value to our fruits and medicinal plants alchemizing them in other products like amazing medicinal xocolate and dehydrated fruits, and also sell them.
    We welcome visitors for transformational agrotourism experiences, holistic schools and retreats

    Our home is a paradise as we see it, you won't probably want to leave!
    The food is one of the most amazing parts, fresh fruit from our plants like 3 kinds of pitahaya, 5 kinds of oranges, pomelo, toronja, mandarin, lemon, cashew (marañon), zapote, banana, plantain, yuca, corn, pumkin, sweet potato, cacao (we make our own chocolate!), between many others are part of our daily life meals. We love creativity in people so be free to have it here!

    Our farm name is Happy Fruit, and we consider it as a sacred land, a purity and safe space to enjoy life, heal and connect with yourself.
    We are accepting new talents that can support our farm, please send us a message if you want to share with us your passion.

    -Painters and mural artist - Lenguaje teachers for kids- Martial arts teachers -Chefs -Marketing and photographers - Preschool teacher - Dance teachers- Field work - carpenter - bio construction - yoga - other skill- people that fix things and create from nature!

    We are looking for people that wants to commit for at list 2 months to work in the farm.
    We don't receave more than 2 volunteers at the time, we reaceve in the year 10 people at most, we love you to be one of them.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Charity Work
    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Teaching
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    Hospitality/Tourism
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
    House sitting
  • Interests

    Interests

    Cycling
    Camping
    Beach
    Adventure sports
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    You can learn of a life experiencie in permaculture.
    In transformation of food we make it the organic way (dryfruit and another meals, we try to use and eat most of our food from the farm / moringa powder / veggie burgers / free to try and experiment) and ecotourism (learn about how we are managing tourism), projects (we need people to help us creating in every area), in the house (we have 3 kids and a close school, we love to have some help in the teaching area).
    In general we believe in a sustainable tipe of developing so the whole experience involves a social and environmental compromise, plus sustainable economical activities, we believe this will let us leave the would same and hope better we found it!

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    This is a 17 hectares family farm. It has around 130 kinds of fruit and herbs, plus 7 hectares of forest. Is located in Arenillas, in the site Santa Marianita. Here we work in organic farming, transformational tourism, and create organic healing foods for home and sale.

    You can help in the crops with many tasks, harvesting the fruits (depending of the season), in the fabric, in the house, with tourism, maintenance, with publicity and photography, and making the farm look nicer. Or any other proposal that may connect with our flow needs.

    We have 3 small Kids in the house, and this farm is them learning laboratory.
    We are looking special help in people that enjoys teaching kids and is interested in teaching many skills to them.

    NOTE: We have a social work going English School, were we teach kids from 5 to 12 years old English. If you like to be part of this project it is an alternative for volunteers in the farm, becouse we have open classes in the farm.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Private room with share bathroom and shower.

    Usually we mostly eat vegetarian, healthy food with the purest ingredients as possible!
    Eveything you want to eat from the fresh harvest of the farm you are welcome to have it!

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We are located in the panamericana road in the site of Santa Marianita where is the Arenillas river, we also have a river arm ¨LA Palma ¨in the farm, only 5 minutes away in car to Arenillas town and 30 minutes taking a nice walk, in the provincia of El Oro, were is around 40 really interesting sites to visit (we can help you with that). We are 15 minutes away from the local airpot in Santa Rosa and 45 minutes from Aguasverdes in Peru (1hour and 15 minutes from the airport of Tumbes in Perú). Tree hours aways from the main coastal city of Guayaquil and 3 hours also from Cuenca. We like the volunter kind of work becouse is a great oportunity to exchange knowledge and life experiences, is really fun to have new energy in the house.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    We have a good enought internet yo work, we do sales and all sales work using it.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have a parking place

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    We welcome pets as long as they are very educared becouse se receave tourism in the farm, and also have 3 kids, 1 dog and 6 cats so ir nerds to be very kind.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

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