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Helping out at our farmhouse in Zahara (Grazalema Natural Park) in Andalucia, Cádiz, Spain

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  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

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    We are looking for long-term volunteer couple to support us with the maintenance of our place and for smaller projects.
    Minimum stay 4 weeks, preferred longer.

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    Hello everyone...

    Our farmhouse has been hosting workawayers for more than ten years by the owner Gonzalo.
    We, Désirée & Markus, are continuing Gonzalo's work and look forward to continuing the work with workawayers while Gonzalo retires to write a book and play chess.

    Our place is a magical, hidden oasis with a charming, playful Andalusian country house and a lush green garden amidst the Andalusian dry vegetation, situated on a fresh river and surrounded by babbling water canals.
    We are located near the village of Zahara de la Sierra in the province of Cádiz in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, which offers great mountain and hiking areas. It's a great place to reconnect with nature.

    Our project is a conscious and mindful place with the intention of living in a sustainable way in harmony with nature and to open a space for people to find inner balance.
    We are a vegan/vegetarian, alcohol-free and smoke-free place and ask people who come to our place to respect those principles.

    We normally need help to keep the surroundings of the farmhouse nice and clean and to do cleaning tasks, gardening tasks, construction, maintenance.
    We usually have two workawayers at our place.

    We are looking forward t hear from you!

    Désirée & Markus

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • 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 will have time to enjoy our beautiful little oasis and the area of the Sierra the Grazalema with its hiking possibilities and paragliding schools.

  • Help

    Help

    At the moment we are looking for somebody/ couples are more then welcome, who would like to support our project and who can help with tasks like gardening. watering, weeding, sweeping, cleaning, household tasks, general maintenance and repair help. Sometimes we also have additional projects like digging, land clearing, collecting Stones, helping with wood, planting seeds and plants, pruning and maintenance of olive and fruits trees, etc. For those tasks we usually have two volunteers at our place sp that tasks can be divided according to individual skills.

    As we are a mindful place for inner transformational work and we are looking for a a conscious and reflective person who is also familiar with own inner work and is able to reflect and to maneuver themselves through own processes. You should be willing to eat vegan or at least vegetarian during the time of your stay (at least at our place) and we are a alcohol-free and smoking-free place.
    We accept only workawayers for a minimum of 6 weeks (unless we have last minute requests) who are willing to help 5 hours per day, and 5 days per week.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Accommodation would be in a room for volunteers or in a glamping bell tent. When we have free rooms while we have no guests, you can stay in one of our guest rooms. We have a shared living room, a shared kitchen and shared bathroom in the house, as well as a compost toilet and outdoor shower outside.
    In your free time you can enjoy the garden, the river and the little pool (in summer time) or you can make hikes in the area.
    Food is provided and usually one of the team or one of the workawayers cooks. If you want to eat out, the bars, cafés and restaurants in the area are very reasonable priced.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We ask for 5 hours help a day, 5 days a week. In exchange, we can offer you a stay in a beautiful surrounding and a warm and welcoming atmosphere at our farm. Please consider that the farm is 2 km (40 min walking) away from our village Zahara de la Sierra, and that we cannot provide a car, although you can go shopping with one of the crew members or somebody can give you a lift.

  • 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 Internet connection and Wifi, which usually works, but as we are in the Spanish countryside and we receive the signal by antenna, it's always a possibility that the connection is not so strong when the weather is very rainy and cloudy.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    We have a space for one camper van.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

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    Hours expected

    5 hours daily, 5 days weekly

Host ref number: 2728856994ab

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