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Enjoy the desert at our arts and ecology site in Joshua Tree, USA

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    Welcome!! We are a registered non-profit that provides a residency program for gifted artists and creative/critical thinkers bringing cultural vibrancy to the high desert through performances, workshops and our drylands permaculture demonstration site that includes gardens, chickens, grey water system and many fruiting trees. Workawayers would only be helping with tasks related to these non-profit activities.

    We are dedicated to the practice and teaching of drylands permaculture.

    OUR COMMITMENTS & PROJECTS

    We are committed to practicing & teaching accessible home-scale solutions for:
    – Sustainable water usage
    – Local food production
    – Building soil fertility and sequestering carbon

    Our current projects include:
    - Natural Building: Super Adobe Earthbag
    – Rainwater-harvesting earthworks and other to support native trees for food, shade & wind protection
    – Greywater-fed “oasis zones” for fruit production
    – Soil regeneration
    – Propagation of edible and medicinal native plant species
    – Water-efficient vegetable gardening systems
    – Growing the local culture of ecological awareness and stewardship
    – Arts and Environmental residencies and volunteer programs

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    There is no limit to what volunteers can learn here. The community is rich with innovators who wish to make the very best of the environment. This project is very much a community effort; none of it could have been done without the help of those who believe in the mission. Eva has their Permaculture Design Certificate in addition to years of experience within the music/art/film industry. She invites people from around the world and gives them the opportunity to do their very best work in a mind blowing place, of magical pink sunsets, starry nights and the silence of the desert!

  • Help

    Help

    For our Spring 2025 programming we are specifically looking for volunteers that are passionate about learning natural building techniques specifically Adobe sandbag construction. If this opportunity resonates with you, please reach out! We are starting the build on May 3rd and ending around May 18th. Looking for able body people to build this structure and build community. Thank you for considering our space!

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    French: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    WorkAway volunteers will stay on site in our camping trailers. The shower is a solar-heated outdoor shower and the restroom is a composting toilet which needs to be maintained throughout your stay. There is also a communal kitchen trailer that is electric powered for volunteers to prepare their own meals. Groceries to prepare meals will be provided let us know if you have any dietary requirements. We do not accept WorkAway volunteers that are traveling with pets.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Joshua Tree is a destination. One of the outstanding features is Joshua Tree National Park, that begins a short walk from the site. The park is approximately 800,000 acres of natural beauty with ample hiking, biking, and rock-climbing. Vistors are greeted by a warm (no pun intended) community who seek to amplify beauty and strength in all that they do. Downtown Joshua Tree, features art galleries/music venues, restaurants, a health food store, and thrift stores. There is a lively music scene of singer/songwriters. There is public transit that can get you down the main highway, but rides to specific locations will need to be arranged. If you are interested in what desert life is like, this is certainly a place to explore and be in the magic of the desert

  • 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

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 392789534867

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