Join us and learn new skills in the mountains of Cocorna, Colombia

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  Description

  We are starting a natural living project in the mountains of Cocorna, Antioquia Colombia. Our Main focus now is natural building and organic gardening side by side maintaining the land.
  
  We are now looking for extra help with all round work in the gardens and also we have 2 kids (Uma 4 years and Tay (2). They are free spirited born and raised in the mountains. We also much welcome other families. We are flexible to see what kind of work- project we can connect to your skills or desire to learn. But always there are some general works on the farm.
  
  We are now designing and implementation our gardens both medicinal and food, inspired by perma culture ( i lived in a perma culture school- community in Thailand for 1,5 year) and ancient traditional living. ( My partner is a farmer by his roots) we garden and aim to have a holistic closed circle farm.
  
  We are proud and passionate to build with nature using nearly 80% of building materials from our land, like earth, wood bamboo straw etc.
  
  We like to develop some products of herbs, foods and flowers, like soaps wine thee's, oils tinctures etc. next to our own veggie and Fruit consumption. Our coffee we hand pick, proces and drink.
  
  The property is a 30 minutes walk from the last road following an ancestral trail.
  Living in nature with a beautifull view over the mountains and the village where many water flows.
  
  We take joy of making much ourselves including furniture, food we are passionate about creating with Nature and from scratch in a puré way.
  
  For the work exchange we provide camping and have all camping gear including matras and bedding available.
  
  Food is not included in the exchange. You can buy and bring up your ingredientes. But also we do a big shoping once a 2 weeks and bring it up by Horse, and step by step we have more harvest from our land. You can give us an optional contribution, i did some general calculation and normally we ask 25.000 so that we can share food and ingredients. Im also flexible on the amount of contribution. Normally we share at least one meal a day, lunch which we can cook together or take turns. Breakfast and dinner is fluid depending on the energy.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  Hospitality/Tourism

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet

  House sitting
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  What's this?
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  In our home you can experience a home that we build and are building with love in tune with nature.
  
  Depending on which projects we are working on you can learn about natural building and organic gardening. We are a Colombian, dutch- Vietnamese family.

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  Help

  We are especially looking for help with the kids and also building- creating exiting áreas for them to play.
  
  The gardens always need some attention, we are focussed firstly on soil building making composts, gardens, sowing seeds, planting, weeding nurturing and give all that love and kindness the earth needs, also we have some appropiate technology projects like building a black soldier fly system, hot tube with wooden connected etc.
  
  On and of we also have
  
  Its physical work, mixed with some knowledge and technics, we can share what we know and work on and im sure we can learn from you, it's hard work but we love it, it's like living the dream ;)

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent
  Spanish: Intermediate

  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.
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  Accommodation

  For now we have camping avalaible with all gear needed Here.
  
  We share the communal areas Here in the house like the kitchen, bathroom and terras.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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