Join our eco-community and food forest in the countryside near Tel Aviv, Israel

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  Description

  This is a small ecological farm and intentional community where people come to reconnect — with the land, with each other, and with themselves. If you’re looking for meaningful work and a place to grow (inside and out), you might just find a home here for a little while.
  
  🌳 What We’re Growing
  The place is home to a food forest (planted in 2014) filled with edible and medicinal plants, a native Miyawaki forest restoration project, a seasonal winter pond, an organic garden, and a variety of compost making projects. We’re always learning from the land and each other — and we’d love for you to be part of that journey.
  
  🛖 How We Live
  We share a communal outdoor kitchen, an open-air living room, outdoor showers, and other common spaces. Life here is simple, nature-connected, and intentional.
  We ask all volunteers to prioritize cleanliness and respect for shared spaces — it really matters to us and helps keep the place a peaceful and harmonious place for all.
  
  We are a non-smoking community, though there is a designated space if needed.
  
  🥦 Food & Community Life
  We share a vegan kitchen and sometimes cook and eat together. Food is bought collectively, and everyone contributes to the cost of food, electricity, water, and internet. We share meals a few times a week, enjoy deep conversations, and learning from each other. From time to time, we host or offer optional activities such as:
  
  Yoga
  Meditation
  Herbal medicine workshops
  Skill-sharing where volunteers and community members teach one another
  Pop up restaurant days (about once a month where we open our doors and cook up some yummy hummus)
  
  If you're interested in participating in a workshop or offering one — let us know!
  
  🏕️ Where You’ll Sleep
  Most volunteers stay in comfortable tents nestled in nature. Occasionally, a private room may be available — reach out if that’s important to you, and we can discuss options.
  
  💫 What We Value
  We see every person as a gift — with unique talents, stories, and wisdom. Whether you’re here to plant trees, build something beautiful, cook a nourishing meal, or simply slow down and reconnect, you’re welcome.
  
  We’d love to hear why you’re drawn to this place, what inspires you, and what you'd like to share or learn here.
  And just to make sure you read everything with care — please mention the word “pitango” in your message :)
  
  📬 Reach Out!
  We’re always happy to answer questions, clarify details, or just get to know you a bit before your arrival. Let’s co-create something beautiful together.
  
  With love from the land,
  The Community

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Interests

  

  Camping

  

  Books

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Carpentry

  

  Sustainability

  

  Self development

  

  Politics / Social justice

  

  LGBTQ

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Farming

  

  Gardening

  

  Animals

  

  Plant care

  

  Nature
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Our community members have a diverse set of professional skills with a lot of knowledge in environmentalism, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, composting, food forestry, dancing, yoga, photography, meditation, cooking, natural cosmetics, medicinal herbs, and much more.

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  Help

  We have a few areas of work:
  1) The food forest, the compost, and the gardens - we need hands to help with compost sifting, weeding, cultivating, mulching, planting, harvesting, etc. We really need hands to help us with our composting.
  
  2) Food - there is regular harvesting from the food forest for meals and to preserve. We like to dehydrate and pickle things. We appreciate folks can get creative in the kitchen and those who can bake bread as well. We also make our own almond milk and vegan almond cheese and can teach you how.
  
  3) Small building and maintenance projects - we really appreciate folks who can help with things like improving our small tree-house, fixing things, etc.
  
  4) General organization - we have various spaces that need organization. This involves sorting through stuff, throwing out things that are broken or no longer needed, sorting things that will get donated, or just general organization of spaces to improve functionality.
  
  5) Cleaning and maintenance of the space - we love folks who are willing to take charge and clean the spaces that we all use (the kitchen, the bathrooms, the showers, etc.). This includes composting kitchen scraps, caring for the compost toilets, making sure there is toilet paper, sweeping spaces, doing dishes, etc.
  
  All this being said, we love to get to know volunteers and understand what folks are passionate about and what skills/gifts they want to share with the community and what they want to learn. We hope that volunteers can be pro-active and take initiative. We also need folks who can work alone. If you see something that could be improved or something you want to contribute, please bring it up during a meeting or with one of the community members, and most likely we will support you in doing it.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Hebrew: Fluent

  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

  We highly encourage folks to bring a tent and sleep under the stars in the food forest (its best weather wise and also you have more privacy). If you want an indoor space there is potentially a room you could sleep in, talk to us for details. We provide mattresses and bedding. We also have plenty of towels and provide shampoo and soap as well. The kitchen, living room, and showers are all outdoors. We also have compost toilets. The day time here is spent outdoors mostly under the large trees.

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  What else ...

  We are located half an hour from Tel Aviv (1 hour in public transportation), 45 min from Jerusalem, and 15 mins drive from the nearest beach.

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  if you are ok with working in a public space, digital nomading is possible here. wifi is stable for most of the time.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  it is possible to come with a van - contact us for more details

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets
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  This host charges a fee

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  Why does Workaway allow some hosts to charge a fee?

  
  

  Workaway provides opportunities for non-monetary cultural exchanges where hosts provide food and accommodation in return for help from Workawayers. In some exceptional cases, a small fee/ donation request (typically no more than 5 dollars per day) may be approved for hosts such as registered charities with a history of positive volunteer feedback. Any fee must directly go to the charity and can only be used to cover the volunteers' food costs. This will be clearly marked on the host's listing.
  

  Listings by agents, "middle-men" or projects that appear to profit from a volunteer's stay are strictly prohibited. Any fees must be discussed and approved in advance by the Workaway team.

  Optional $5 USD donation for food each day

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