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Beautiful green Cantabria is calling!
Our little corner of the earth is rustic and cozy in a small hamlet amidst the Cantabrian Cordillera, situated just 1/2 an hour from the coast and its beautiful beaches, and one hour to both Bilbao and Santander. We rebuilt this stone and timber house from a 300 year old crumbling ruin using sustainable building practices. The house incorporates a passive solar design and features all the comforts of a modern home including bioclimatic insulation, compostable toilets, onsite water filtration, woodstove and pellet boiler, solar panels and infloor heating. The materials used in the house needed to meet our criteria for a healthy, eco friendly, efficient home built by hand, often sourced locally.
We are a small family, Jasmine is Canadian, Javi is Spanish/Basque, our son Emeric is 13 years old. Our lovely sheep dog Ginger, friendly cat Maui, and a few chickens round out our small clan, there are some little fish too.
We always have a few projects that we´d like to tackle and if you would like to come and give us a hand we´d really appreciate it.
Right at the moment we're looking for several individuals who would like to help us with our spring projects. The landscaping has been years in the making, the paint waiting to be applied and the trees are ready for pruning and mulching. We'll be laying a pathway from our lane to the house and fixing up natural fencing on our property for our neighbour's sheep to graze on our land.
There's so much to explore in the area, come and enjoy the plethora of hiking trails, caves, rock climbing, via ferrata, and spectacular beaches while you soak up the country life in northern rural spain.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We can offer a mixed cultural experience, european and canadian. Lots of time outdoors, delicious food. When the weather is nice we sometimes head to the beach in the afternoon. A chance to brush up on your english or spanish, learn about horses, gardening, food preserving....
Help
There are many opportunities around here both indoors and out. On our property we have fruit trees and a vegetable garden, there´s landscaping work to be done and a few heavier projects we´d love some help with.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
For house-sits the entire house is available. For Workaway stays we have a private room, shared bathroom (guest bathroom/powder room) also a motorhome parked out under the trees for a family.
What else ...
We are open and flexible, if you are looking to spend a little time in rural spain, come and get to know this little corner of the earth.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Our internet at the house is by fibre optic cable.
Space for parking camper vans
We have a motorhome ourselves, we can accommodate just about any size of vehicle.
Can possibly accept pets
Animals who can get along with ours, especially the dog and chickens are welcome. All our animals live outside, and although the dogs can come into the lower level of the house, the others do not.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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I'm really glad I got in touch even though you weren't looking for help at the time and I'm so grateful you said yes and it worked out for both of us! I did a whole variety of tasks (weaving support for… read more
I (Paul) walked every day to the house to help with the dogs, horses, and chickens.
In the evening we cooked the diner together.
We had a very lovely 2 weeks with Jasmine and Emeric, Javi was away to Germany.
Emeric es un niño muy educado, alegre y con mucho entusiasmo por la vida, realmente le espera un gran futuro, tiene un bonito corazón y disfrutamos mucho jugando con él. Jazmine es una persona muy serena, siempre sabe estar a la altura de la situación y nunca le va a faltar una sonrisa, sus palabras… read more
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I'm really glad I got in touch even though you weren't looking for help at the time and I'm so grateful you said yes and it worked out for both of us! I did a whole variety of tasks (weaving support for… read more
I (Paul) walked every day to the house to help with the dogs, horses, and chickens.
In the evening we cooked the diner together.
We had a very lovely 2 weeks with Jasmine and Emeric, Javi was away to Germany.
Emeric es un niño muy educado, alegre y con mucho entusiasmo por la vida, realmente le espera un gran futuro, tiene un bonito corazón y disfrutamos mucho jugando con él. Jazmine es una persona muy serena, siempre sabe estar a la altura de la situación y nunca le va a faltar una sonrisa, sus palabras… read more
Son una pareja con mucha ilusión y con bonitos proyectos, son muy amenos en la convivencia.
Además Gabor es un excelente y… read more
Thank you very much for that wonderful week in you corner of paradise. Little Émeric is a very lucky boy to grow up in such a place. You are a very welcoming family and I… read more
My home away from home. My extended family. I have visited and helped around la sota three times now and I have loved every second of every mintue of every day I have spent with Jasmine, Javi, emeric, yuki, meowie, todas las gallinas and the very friendly roster and of course the beautiful horses. They are a very special… read more
It was nice to be involved with lots of different tasks and they are a fun family to be around.
Wish we had enough time to finish the slate path before leaving- perhaps on our way home we can come back!… read more
They are very warm and kind, their home is beautiful and it was a great introduction to workaway.
Enjoy the quince jelly & I hope the winter vegetables I planted grow to be big and delicious!
Saludos
The work was tough but you helped out enormously and kept the job going, and you kept Javi in good spirits too ;)
It was really nice getting to know you, and we´ll keep in touch,
Yuki misses you.
Much love
Jasmine Javi and Emeric
Thank you!
Una familia genial.
Realizamos el trabajo junto a otra pareja que estaba de workaway también, muy contentos de poder acabar el trabajo y del resultado que obtuvimos. A parte de todo esto, la estancia nos la hicieron muy agradable, buenos desayunos y riquísima la comida que nos preparaban cada día,… read more
