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We are an off grid 15 acre ranch in the desert of El Pescadero, Baja Sur. We are located 20 minutes from the town of el Pescadero and 30 minutes from Cerritos beach or Todos Santos. With no public transportation available from the ranch to town, your own transportation would be an asset but not essential. There are busses in town to virtually anywhere in Baja.
We have been developing our off grid Permaculture Farm and Eco village since 2019. We are working on gardens, increasing wildlife habitat, trail networks, and eco friendly infrastructure. Husband and wife team, Dane and Sabrina have been living off grid since 2018 and are chasing a goal for self sufficient living in harmony with nature. The area is abundant in exploration either the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains or the beaches of El Pescadero. We offer an enriching experience to reconnect with nature while living off the grid and developing a permaculture skillset.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
House sitting
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Re connect and live with nature, Off grid living and construction skills, zero waste lifestyle experience, permaculture practices and gardening techniques, animal husbandry, ancestral food preparation, native flora and fauna knowledge, desert medicinal plants uses, trail building, mapping, Spanish immersion and living among the ejido Mexican ranchero community.
Help
We are looking for 1 or 2 people to help in the following areas over the next few months:
1. General cleaning and maintenance tasks around the ranch like chicken duties, dog duties, watering gardens, keeping common areas of our eco village tidy.
2. General laborer: painting, fencing projects, helping with rebuild of chicken run.
3. Gardening worker: Weeding from summer rains, fixing wells around base of beds, mulching and other garden development projects.
Essentials for the position include:
1. Own reliable transportation if you’d like to go to town or the beach. We are 7km (10-15 min) down a dirt road from the town of Pescadero, about 20 min from the beach. Otherwise we could commit to 1 day a week of taking you to town/beach.
2. Clean and tidy
3. Able to take direction
4. Non-wasteful, sustainable habits
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis 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
Depending on the availability we have the following accommodations available on our ranch:
1. Fully set up and private trailer with Queen bed with bedding, kitchen, and outdoor communal spaces for relaxing in your off -time.
2. Heavy duty canvas glamping tent with comfortable Queen bed and bedding.
3. Main sky room (bedroom) in common area of eco village. This is in a safe rain proof concrete building, and serves as the main accommodation for our caretakers.
Communal area we share includes:
Multi-functional palapa with wifi , couches and dining table as well as many counter tops for projects. Fully functional Kitchen. Composting toilets, hot shower, washing machine, as well as many patio areas to relax on the property with shade and beautiful views.
We will provide supplies for meals to prepare on your own and do some communal dinners together too.
What else ...
Check out the local area for exploring like relaxing, whale watching, swimming or surfing at the popular and close by Cerritos Beach. Adventure to Todos Santos and stroll around the town checking out all the funky stores, colonial buildings and art galleries. Tour up into the beautiful little ranches and mexican pueblos beyond us and go for a dip in the year round mountain streams of the Sierra de la Laguna mountains. There are local buses in town if you want to explore and go and see neighbouring areas like La Paz or the world famous tourist town of Cabo San Lucas. Just relaxing on the rancho bird watching, reading in a hammock, wildlife viewing and journeying through our hiking trails in the ancient old growth cactus forests might be enough to satisfy your free time off work.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
20 chickens
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We have had many caretakers for our ranch over the years and have experienced much disappointment so we were pleasantly surprised this year to have the ranch being taken care of by people with such competent hands. Their previous experience with farming in Germany really helped with… read more
Sabrina and Dane are a very nice, welcoming and generous couple from Canada.
They both work hard on to improve the ranchos structure and develop an ecovillage. And if this will not be enough ,they organize their own market in town now.
They were both very flexible and helped us so much to escape… read more
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We have had many caretakers for our ranch over the years and have experienced much disappointment so we were pleasantly surprised this year to have the ranch being taken care of by people with such competent hands. Their previous experience with farming in Germany really helped with… read more
Sabrina and Dane are a very nice, welcoming and generous couple from Canada.
They both work hard on to improve the ranchos structure and develop an ecovillage. And if this will not be enough ,they organize their own market in town now.
They were both very flexible and helped us so much to escape… read more
