Join our community farm and help us with permaculture and sustainable farming while enjoying life in Ayampe, Ecuador

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

    We are a community farm in the small coast town of Ayampe, Ecuador. The project started in 2020 during the pandemic, as a mean to ensure food security and sovereignty in town. Indeed, during that time, it became more difficult to access food as we live in a remote part of Ecuador. Nowadays, we host several permaculture and agroecology workshops, leaning into educating our community and surroundings about the benefits of producing and consuming locally grown food. These events are our main source of income, along with our nursery garden. Everyone in the community is invited to make their own garden beds, and learn about sustainable living. We host the first recycling center of Ayampe. Our aspirations for this project is for it to grow into a community space where people of all ages, genders and nationalities can gather to share, learn and develop into alternative ways of living.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Help around the house
    Hospitality/Tourism
    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

    Ayampe is a beautiful surf paradise in the coast of Ecuador. In your free time, you can spend time at the beach, maybe learn how to surf, improve your Spanish skills and even build upon a yoga practice, given that there is a big yoga offering in town. It's a very healthy environment for everyone to live in. As for life in the farm, this is the opportunity to lean deeper into your permaculture experience and contribute to a project that aims towards supporting a global environmental shift of our ways to exist.

  • Help

    Help

    We are looking for one or two long-term volunteers with experience in the field of permaculture, sustainable farming and farm management. The perfect profile would be a person that is also leaning into a more social personality, as the project demands much interaction and merging with all the inhabitants of our community. Someone that is good with animal care would be a preferable trait, given that we raise (on a small scale) pigs and chickens in the farm. Your responsibilities would include farm management (guiding other volunteers) and maintenance as well as initiative in creating and hosting workshops, for the farm to have a income and the project to sustain itself.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: 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.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Your accommodation would be in a suite located in a beachfront hostel. The suite includes a double sized bed and a simple sized one too, a fully equipped kitchen and a small patio area. Great connection to wifi, the suite gets cleaned once a week, which includes fresh sheets and towels.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Surfboards are available for rent, along with weekly activities that the hostel provides such as yoga lessons, snorkeling and kayaking trips and family dinners.

  • 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

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • 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

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 912581223684

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