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Description
We are a small 3 acre permaculture farm situated in the mountains of Peninsula Malaysia. It's in the village of Janda Baik located some 50mins from the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Our vision here is to create a self sufficient farm that's perfect for a micro community of at least 5 families. At the same time, run as a training center, workshop and activities spot for budding permaculturist and other earth loving enterprise.
We are interested in natural farming, natural building and craft works. Most of our activities and workshops center around those themes.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Hospitality/Tourism
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our vision in the farm is to live well with nature and develop a spiritual awareness. We are raising our kids to be better people who can stand on their own feet and be people of service.
We also want them to train in a multitude of things including farm chores, craft projects, enterprise, aikido and most of all, to have a social aptitude without any cultural bias.
We receive international guests here and a lot of locals. Most exchanges revolve around permaculture and spiritual upliftment. Our interns will also participate in learning about these matters during their stay here.
We also plan to conduct regular aikido classes.
We like to explore local and international cuisine and transition it into more healthy vegetarian versions, we practice alternate days of vegetarian meals for health and spiritual reasons. All in all, it'll be a great place to learn about farm to plate and recipe building especially since we are in the midst of trials and experimentation.
Help
We want people who are proficient:
- natural farming methods (permaculture, natural farming, syntropic agroforestry, organic farming)
- help on Farmstay
- social media management (SEO, google SEO)
- building and woodworking
- crafts like soap making, sewing, painting
Languages
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
English: 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 have dorms with bunk beds.
Bathrooms and toilets are not ensuite, it's located in a close by building. The toilets are compost toilets with bokashi bran and wash bidets. The showers are all rain water harvested.
What else ...
The village is not far and there's plenty of things to do. Rivers, waterfalls, ATV, jungle trails, archery, paintball and we even have a hot water spring about an hour away.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have limited WiFi being close to the jungle. As such we don't cater for massive online or realtime usage. Rather if you need the internet for a couple of hours, we can accommodate that. Our work also begins early in the morning and with an afternoon break followed by closing up work in the late afternoon. So outside work has to work around those times.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Minimum 5 hours a day , 5 days
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And he’s good with kids too
She’s a traveling teacher on time off but it was really enlightening to see her calm and cool style dealing with issues and kids. She’s very helpful and kind and very open in her life long learning, constantly absorbing knowledge and experiences. She’s a role model for me to never stop learning things In a… read more
It is hard to resume these four weeks as my stay was incredibly rich : I could learn a lot about permaculture, general gardening and use of edible and medicinal plants, I could teach to the homeschooled kids at a community school managed by parents according to Waldorf system, I… read more
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And he’s good with kids too
She’s a traveling teacher on time off but it was really enlightening to see her calm and cool style dealing with issues and kids. She’s very helpful and kind and very open in her life long learning, constantly absorbing knowledge and experiences. She’s a role model for me to never stop learning things In a… read more
It is hard to resume these four weeks as my stay was incredibly rich : I could learn a lot about permaculture, general gardening and use of edible and medicinal plants, I could teach to the homeschooled kids at a community school managed by parents according to Waldorf system, I… read more
I was so lucky as during my time here I got to meet so many other volunteers. We had fun working and touring around together. I didn’t get to see Abas a lot since he was busy at the time, but Waida,… read more
With Abas, the owner of the farm, we ate a few meals and had interesting discussions. He also showed us around and gave us an insight into permaculture.
As Abas is not always at the farm, Waida is managing the place and is responsible for the volunteers aswell. Waida is just amazing!… read more
It wa interesting doing some work on the farm as we generally worked alongside the local workers and… read more
