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Description
Our Homestead/Retreat is located in the California Central Coast near the small town of Oceano. This part of the Central Coast is know for its mild climate and beautiful beaches and dunes. We are a small fairly new organic farm growing avocados and passionfruit, as well as some other diverse plantings mainly for our own use. Located on 16 acres about 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean, we embrace organic and permaculture principles and try to enjoy our work and community.
Also home to the newly forming Retreat Center which will be a place for serious long term meditators. The purpose of the farm is to support the retreat center and provide a place for them and other volunteers who want to have an opportunity to study ways to live simply and sustainably and have time for study and meditation practice. The owners do not derive any profit from the farm. There is mainly homestead type work, firewood prep, weeding, gardening, building and repairs, family orchard maintenance
We don't have drugs, alcohol or tobacco on the property. We encourage meditation and respectful communication and of course work.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learn some building trades and shop skills and also if you are there longer to do some tree and vine care for our kitchen garden and orchard. Mulching, composting, fertilizing, irrigating, We have a good permaculture library. Also you can prictice English if that is of interest.
Help
Right now we could use help to finish building a house. You would be able to work with a US General Contractor and learn a bit about building trades as we finish. We are also landscaping around the house and planning a food forest. There are many other little projects here such as fence buliding, irrigation, planting a miawaki forest, propagating plants and many others. We also need some help splitting wood (with a hydraulic splitter) and making biochar.
We don't have paying customer retreats. Its not a business.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
RV
We provide staples and have a food fund for other incidentals. We have food guidlines and try to use farm food as much as possible. We try to avoid processed foods and plastic packaging as much as we can. Sometimes we have group meals and sometimes its individual. We have an "indoor-outdoor" kitchen with a solar powered electric stove and oven.
What else ...
We are 2 miles from the ocean so there is the beach, surf, hiking, We have a good library of permaculture books and also access to good meditation teachings in books or videos.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a good wifi connection in the barn which contains our community room as well as a bedroom
Space for parking camper vans
small to medium rvs
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
5 hours a day 5 days a week. Week days
