Come and learn more about constructi2on with natural materials while staying with us in Ibarra, Ecuador

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    This is a space built with ancestral methods that recover ancient techniques of construction, culture and medicine.
    The 3 independent houses, the event hall, the open and collective kitchen, the whirlpool, the temazcal, the cafeteria are spaces of the place that were all built with local materials according to ancestral methods, thanks to the work of teachers wise people from the area using wood, mud, straw and the stones landed on the ground, originated in distant eruptions of Tayta Imbabura.
    We also have organic gardens mostly of vegetables and chicken coops.

    Contamos con 3 casas independientes, el salón de eventos, la cocina abierta y colectiva, el hidromasaje, el temazcal, la cafetería que fueron todos construidos con materiales locales según métodos ancestrales, gracias al trabajo de maestros sabios de la zona utilizando madera, barro, paja y las piedras aterrizadas en el terreno, originadas en unas lejanas erupciones del Tayta Imbabura.
    Contamos tambien con huertos organicos mayormente de hortalizas , gallinas y alpacas.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Elderly Companionship
    Teaching
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    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

    To be able to make friends, share experiences, in organic crops, in the construction with natural materials, hoping that the time they get here is to help us and feel comfortable

    Poder compartir experiencias, en los cultivos organicos, en la construccion con materiales naturales, esperando que el tiempo que lleguen a estar por aca sea para poder ayudarnos y se sientan comodos

  • Help

    Help

    Land preparation, planting, care, harvesting…, elaboration of derived products such as jams, dehydrated, animal care (chickens, ducks, alpacas, dogs), if we are building; foundation preparation, adobe making, plastering walls with mud and straw, making wood and tile roofs, maintaining the spaces. If your stay is several weeks and you want to share your experiences in different artistic expressions, natural medicine or gastronomy, we can organize workshops for families in nearby communities.

    Preparación de la tierra, siembra, cuidado, cosecha…, elaboración de los productos derivados como mermeladas, deshidratados, cuidado de los animales (gallinas, patos, alpacas, perros ), si estamos construyendo; preparacion de cimientos, la elaboracion de adobe, enlucir paredes con barro y paja, hacer cubiertas de madera y teja, mantenimiento de los espacios. Si su estadia es de varias semanas y desean compartir sus experiencias en diferentes expresiones artisticas , en medicina natural o en gastronomia, podemos oraganizar talleres para las familias de las comunidades cercanas.

  • Languages spoken

    Spanish: Fluent
    English: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We have a two-bedroom house. The available room has a bunk bed, the house is shared, there are many common spaces, wide spaces, the spaces are comfortable and welcoming. breakfast and lunch would be included from Monday to Friday.

    Contamos con una casa de dos habitaciones. la habitación disponible tiene litera , la casa se comparte, hay muchos espacios comunes amplios espacios los espacios son comodos y acogedores.
    el desayuno y el almuerzo estarian incluidos de lunes a viernes.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Nosotros estamos ubicados a las faldas del taita Imbabura en el barrio San Pedro , Parroquia la Esperanza Provincia de Imbabura, a 6 km del centro de la ciudad de Ibarra , desde la casa hasta una parada de bus son 400 mts hay buses constantemente hasta las 8pm , por aqui cerca se puede ascender al taita Imbabura, al nevado cayambe , mama Cotacachi, estamos a 20 km de Otavalo y la plaza de ponchos, tambien pueden cococer varias piscinas de aguas termales en chachimbiro a 30km, varios lagos lagunas y cascadas, igualmente los viajes en general para recorrer ecuador no son muy largos y los pasajes a bajos costos.

  • 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

  • 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?

    Two

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    Hours expected

    Máximo 5 horas al día, 5 días a la semana

Host ref number: 833112814527

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