Looking for pro active helpers at our permacultural farm in Brazil

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    After 2 amazing years exploring Australia, we'll be hosting volunteers from February onwards. We are looking especially for English native speakers, to help our kids to maintain their English.

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    We are a german and brazilian family dividing our living between our permaculture farm and a cute house in the bushes of a small historical town called Vassouras. The farm is located in Santa Isabel do Rio Preto, 180 km away from the city of Rio de Janeiro, at the border of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.

    The size of our farm is 38 hectars, 20 hectars are rainforest (Mata Atlantica) and there is a clean river with some small private sand beaches, our focus at the moment is preservation and food production. In former years our focus was bioconstruction.

    We are 2 adults and 3 kids. Before the pandemic, we were constantly receiving visitors, who were looking for an alternative lifestyle in harmony with nature. We produce a big part of our food organicly and we bioconstructed the main house, which has a community kitchen, living room and a bathroom. Water- and electric energy providing is completely off-grid.

    We love to travel and camping. We love to cook delicious vegetarian and vegan food and would be very happy to learn new recipes from your country! You must taste our home made pizza and our vegan curries!

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    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
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Travellers can learn a lot about permaculture, organic food and fair trade from us.

    You will stay at a unique permaculture farm with a lot of preserved rainforest and native animals (tucans, parrots and other colourful birds are living here). You can swim in our river every day.

  • Help

    Help

    At the moment we are looking for someone who is a native speaker in English and loves kids. If you are a happy and proactive person, who loves kids, pets and nature, please get in contact with us.

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    On the other side we need help harvesting, feeding the animals.

    Clean and maintain the house you can stay is obvious.
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    Some small jobs, that should be done: paint a wall, cut grass, harvest, planting, helping in and around the house, being proactive and seeing and doing the work that have to be done.

  • Languages spoken

    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Portuguese: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Camping with own tent or private room.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    There are some co-living basics :)
    - please wash the plate you used (yes, unfortunatelly we need to say this...)
    - please do not leave garbage behind, when you leave. A big part of trying to live sustainable and in harmony with nature is about lower our consumption and getting conscious of our waste. Plastic is not recycled in Brazil, so please think before you take a plastic bag in a shop.
    - we have limited ressources, we need people who really are looking for an alternative lifestyle and want to come to help us. If you want to, you can bring some fresh fruits or whole grain food. We eat most of the time vegan food and sometimes vegetarian food, like home made pizza, for example. We love curries. In case you enjoy cooking, it would be great to cook something delicious from your country for us. It is no problem, if you cannot cook, then we do it and you can learn it from us :)
    - as we generate our whole electrical energy, please be conscious that we can run out of energy, that is not always possible to charge your mobile phone, tablets or other things. It is an interesting exercise to slow down, get offline and rethink about how many electrical energy you actually use every day without noticing it.
    - we have no phone and here in this region there is no cellphone signal.
    - There is no bank or cash machine in Santa Isabel.
    - We are in winter, so at night it can get cold (around 8 degrees Celsius).
    - We have 4 lovely and social cats and 1 sweet dog, native bees, chickens and ducks.
    - in case we go out to have some beers or dinner you are responsible for pay your consumption.

    In case you are really interested in come, we would like to make a video call with you, so we can get to know us a little bit better :)

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    Christian works as software developer and he built and maintains our whole internet infrastructure. So please specifiy your work and needs, so we can check if you can work here.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 737448176549

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