Help bring our farm project to life and be a part of our adventure near of Villamaria, Colombia

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  Description

  Hello Workawayers :) Read it all and CHECK AVAILABILITY!
  I'm Martin, i live in a farm in the middle of nature outside of Villamaria. I have been traveling for many years as volunteer in hostels and other places.
  I started the project with my former partner (Florence), after we met we decided to give workaway a try on farms mainly in Rumania, Ucrania and Switzerland, also looking for the ideal place to start our project, learning about different farming methods and community living.
  After all, we then decided to come to southamerica for various reasons like the weather, fertility and aboundance of water and fauna. It took us almost one year to find the right place....
  Well, here i am! And now it is time to get active and transform all the ideas in reality and that's only possible with your help!
  It's as much about getting things done as about enjoying life in the mountains, taking a dip in the river or enjoying the view from the hammoc on the balcony, cooking, going for hikes, visiting the hotsprings or drinking a coffee in Manizales.
  Update (10/01/2023): now we have two new members of our farm! Chasca and Killa!! two sister baby dogs.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  House sitting
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  Interests

  

  Videography

  

  Technology

  

  Politics / Social justice

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Sustainability

  

  Pets

  

  Farming

  

  Books

  

  Plant care

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Architecture

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Gardening

  

  Languages

  

  Photography

  

  Carpentry

  

  Animals

  

  Cycling

  

  Camping

  

  Nature

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Hiking

  

  Mountain
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  To live and enjoy in the middle of nature breathing tranquility, how a project starts to become alive and being a part of this adventure. The place is in a wonderful neighborhood we don't hear or see each other, but we help each other out. The next door neighbor has organic coffee and the other makes cheese, little by little all is changing to organic. We would like to welcome and share all this with you and show you a colombia that is safe and beautiful. We love to have a good time as much as we like to get things done, so feel free to join!

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  Help

  There is a greenhouse that needs some maintenance, we want to make trails on the land to reach the cascades easier and to walk through the parts that are forest in our land, so that will be one of the jobs.
  - Renovations of the volunteer's house
  - Harvesting different food, plantains, bananas, potatoes, yuca, coles, lemons, etc...
  - I also want to start growing coffee, then there is a part where we want to plant different trees to fix the land and bring diversity to it, i have chickens with which you can help, i need to build a bamboo fence around the vegetable garden, there is a lot of planting and organizing the different beds that needs to be done..ahhh and i like to cook and eat delicious meals together, so if you feel like, this can also be part of the work :)
  Also is very important, i expect from volunteers to have common sense and know how to use it, in all meanings.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Russian: Beginner

  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

  You will have a room for yourself in the volunteer's house or If you want to, there is lots of space for camping, putting up a tent or even a place to park your 4x4car
  - Breakfast and lunch are included, sometimes we eat lunch leftovers for dinner , all depends of the amount of work during the day. We take shifts to cook but we dont have fixed hours for lunch so if you have an strict routine for it you will have a kitchen available to cook your own meals. Breakfast is self-service, there is always bread, fruits, muesli and yogurt available.
  - If you are regular cigarette/tobacco smoker this is not your place, we find the smell very strong and intrusive.
  - We don't have a fridge, only a freezer to save harvested food and meat, so we take ice from there to refill cooler boxes :)
  - Basic kitchen available (for tea/coffee or small preparations).
  - Dry toilet ousite of the house.
  - Warm shower where water capacity is LIMITED for volunteers because we have to administrate in a very responsible way to have enough for irrigation, consume and hygiene so we hope you can understand and don't take showers longer than 15 minutes. We will appreciate it.

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  What else ...

  To arrive you can either com via a Cable or public transportation from Manizales to Villamaria. From there it is about a 20 min drive to the entrance of the beautiful aerea where we live. From there it's about 20 min crossing 5 rivers walking up to our place. We can help you with all this once we are in contact and know when you will be arriving. Just write us and we are happy to answer you any question :) We will make this experience the best for you and finally give something back that we received during our stays a workawayers 🌻
  If you got here, congrats! We kindly ask you to mention the names of our dogs in your message, otherwise we will not answer as there is a lot of copy and paste requests coming in. It's for the best of both of us as you should know where you are going😊

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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

  Martín himself worked as a digital Nomad for some years and being a workawayer. We completely understand your situation and are open to it :)

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  Space for parking camper vans

  But it MUST be 4x4 as the access by car is quite tricky... we are working on the road

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Yes, if they themselfs are friendly with our animals and don't eat our chicken :)

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

  

  Killa (2 years)

  

  Chaska (2 years)

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