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We, Ingrid (52, originally from the Netherlands) living by the yoga philosophy and Felix (66, from Spain) are living on a beautiful small olive farm, 20 minutes away from the coast, right under Tarragona. We moved here 3 years ago, after years living up at the Costa Brava. We don't only have 230 olives tree but also aim to mostly live from our own veggie garden and fruit trees. On top of that there's George the pig, the dogs, cats geece and chicken who keep us company. We are surrounded by beautiful valleys, birds cover most of the sounds we hear.
We love being outdoors, are into healthy and delicious cooking and we work on the land daily (farming+gardening). Especially in November the olive harvest is keeping us busy. We also are bottling our own delicious olive oil. For the moment it's more hobby than business yet we do have the responsibility to take good care of the the olive and almond trees, our animals and the veggie garden.
We like company and intercultural exchange, sharing our knowledge on farming, food, yoga and exchanging life stories. We therefore love to welcome anyone who enjoys being outdoors, who likes a great (veggie) meal and who could give us a hand for a few hours a day (4-5hrs).
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We would appreciate your energy, enthusiasm and would like to share stories about experience over dinner. We can tell everything about the olive cultive and veggie guarding and off course about the yoga philosophy.
Help
Plant a seed!!
Let it grow, how much work?
You never know!
Tree experts can care our trees.
We plant seeds not on our knees.
We work together to get things done.
So bring your boots and enjoy the sun!
We are friends with many of our neighbouring Workaway hosts, we find solutions to problems more easily this way. Our volunteers can now join our community and help make good a bigger picture than just working away on our organic hobby farm here in Riudecanyes.
We have joined up with a local charity who take otherwise wasted fresh food from the farmers fields (that's our bit) and deliver it to the foodbanks and other non profit means to ensure waste is reduced if nothing else.
We will drive to a farm somewhere in the beautiful countryside of Tarragona then give 3 or 4 hours of hard labour to support this amazing cause. It happens on an ad hoc basis and maybe if we're lucky we can do two a week. It's an amazing experience.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Dutch: FluentThis 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
We can offer you board, whether that's in the house itself or in a small wooden cabin, or with your own campervan(or likewise) on our land.Also we have a self contained en suite. We have a big kitchen which would be shared all together and we would offer 3 meals a day.
What else ...
Nearby the beach of Cambrils and Salou. You can also visit Tarragona with it's beautiful Romanesque city. Mountains and Valleys are all around us. On top of that, the train station is only 10 minutes away and you will be in Barcelona in about 2 hours.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
Our land has enough space fore your campervan, sleeping under the olive trees.
Can possibly accept pets
We are open to meet other pets, with the idea that they interact nicely with our own pets. When the relation between them would not be very friendly, we have the possibility to let them be separated on our land. But the idea remains that they can also enjoy the exchange and hopefully get along well.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (17)
I was lucky to find a last minute host in Ingrid and Felix and they could have me for 2 weeks until xmas coming up. I have enjoyed the company of other workawayers and all the animals( besides the geese😱)Ingrid does enjoy to cook wonderful dishes with fresh healthy products. 🥳🙏🏻I also enjoyed the communication with Ingrid, she is very… read more
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I was lucky to find a last minute host in Ingrid and Felix and they could have me for 2 weeks until xmas coming up. I have enjoyed the company of other workawayers and all the animals( besides the geese😱)Ingrid does enjoy to cook wonderful dishes with fresh healthy products. 🥳🙏🏻I also enjoyed the communication with Ingrid, she is very… read more
I stayed for two weeks at the end of May. I was refused by most hosts actually because I needed to go back to university every Monday. But Ingrid answered me at the moment that I already gave up on finding one place to go. I really… read more
It was my first workaway and it was a great experience.
I spent 17 days with them and we made with Félix and Ana (she is a workaway girl) a cleaning of the finca and building a small wall with concrete and stones.
Ingrid and Felix are amazing hosts! ☺️
With them you can talk about anything and share everything.
With Felix you can… read more
Estuve un mes y medio compartiendo con Ingrid, Felix y Neil.
Me han tratado super bien desde el primer dia que me fue a buscar Ingrid a la estacion, hasta el ultimo dia que tambien me llevo Felix a la estacion.
He disfrutado mucha la estancia en este lugar compartiendo con ellos.… read more
We stayed at Ingrid and Felix’s for two weeks and helped with building a wall, painting cabins and much more since there were always tasks at hand.
When we arrived we felt like we were part of the family pretty fast (Including all the animals that were around).
The other Workawayers were really kind and helped us with… read more
I recommend 100% this workaway for everyone who like : english or spanish discussions, living among olive, orange and lemon trees.
Ingrid, your dishes are awesome. Thank you again !
For three weeks, I cooked, washed, cutted… read more
A good… read more
The day looked like this:
I was getting up between 8 and 9 had breakfast and then started to work, at around 12 there was a break for tea or coffee and a… read more
We had good conversations about Norwegian and his… read more
Work on the farm outside. Poding the olive trees, burning everything. Cutting big hages, all over the property. Helping with cleaning the waterpool who was get empty and was full of sludge. Cleaning the hedge with a lot of wilgrowing cactus and… read more
Over the last month I got thought a lot of new things like pruning trees and how they managed the land. It's been multiple jobs that needed doing like in this… read more
