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Mixed farm help in beautiful off grid andaluz valley, Spain

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  • Última actividad: 13 abr 2024

DISPONIBILIDAD

  2024 

 Estancia mínima:  Al menos 2 semanas

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    From 13 April to 27th April, a mixed bag of help on a re-wilding project as part of a group of 5/6 helpers. A beautiful mountain valley, a basic off grid house to yourselves. You definitely need to be there the day before ( 12th April ); other dates might ( might ) be negotiable.

    I have a piece of land in the mountains and am trying hard to rewild it a bit, though nature is resisting my efforts... I need help planting trees, digging, mending fences, felling trees, chasing deer, wrestling wild boar ( optional ), irrigating, whitewashing, oh, etc.

    In return you get to experience the realities of that romantic notion 'off grid'; you live in a very beautiful quiet valley; three workaway couples have met here and then got married ( just saying - you don't have to get married ); you live in a house of your own; you experience rural Spain.

    We'll plan to do four days of help then a day off then four days of help, etc, for two weeks. For the first couple of hours each day we'll do just farm tasks - cleaning and painting irrigation tanks, cutting down trees to make into firewood, digging holes, mending fences.
    After a coffee break there should often be more choice for the last two hours. Eg if you're more interested in agriculture there should be lots of help with trees - planting, pruning, grafting, irrigating, potting plants etc. And if you're interested in building there will be whitewashing, making steps, cutting paths, building a verandah, etc.
    Then it's lunch and the rest of the day is yours.

    Some afternoons if you want I may teach about basic eco-construction techniques ( walls, rocket stoves, cobbling, sandbag walls...) and you can practise them if you like ( it's not rocket science ). Or you can get the wood fired pizza oven working, go to the river, build a solar water heater, watch many many birds, climb mountains, pick fruit, make limoncello, fresh orange juice, give or get shiatsu, learn Spanish... stuff you can't do without several permits in civilisation.

    You all live together and share looking after the house etc; you get a budget to spend how you like but which should be enough for a simple vegetarian diet for three meals; some groups have gone for the wine diet instead - your choice.

    And you really need to read the whole profile. No. Really. You do. Just, damn it, read the whole profile. I will know.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Ayuda en una granja
    Ayuda doméstica
    Mantenimiento general
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    This is a small mountain village, a world far away from tourist Spain. It's very very quiet, but equally very friendly. You'll be greeted by everybody - they would love it if you can chat to them (though the local dialect / accent may make that a challenge...) . It's surrounded by a National Park, walking routes, a river, hills and mountains, forest land. If you want to see just how calm village life is, it's perfect; if you want to get right away from everything, it's perfect.

    It's a great base for traveling round Andalucia - you can stay on longer if you want.

    I can also teach about eco-construction techniques, shiatsu, tapas, international education, and, well, e.g. Japanese theatre ?

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    There's an endless list of maintenance jobs ( mending fences and tracks, whitewashing walls, bits of building ). And tree care ( cutting them down, planting them, pruning and coppicing them, irrigating them ). And some gardening ( making compost, caring for a small tree nursery, planting seeds...) . There's so much to do that for about half the time you can get to choose what you'd like to do / learn about.

  • Idiomas hablados

    Inglés: Fluido
    Español: Fluido
    Francés: Intermedio
    Japonés: Intermedio

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    You'll have the farmhouse to yourselves ( I live in the village itself ). It's off grid and basic. So that means just enough 12v solar electricity to charge phones/laptops and a few lights at night; bucket baths not showers ( and you need to heat the water on a stove ); recycled furniture; a simple kitchen . We provide beds and basic bedding ( sheets, blankets, pillows ); two single rooms, two big double rooms ( and a Workaway-built cabin, or tents, if you really need your own space...), wood stove, pizza oven, patio, hammock, plunge pool, nearby river to swim in, an excellent library of books.

    Note - this is the third year of a drought here - you will need to be very conscious of how much water you use for washing etc.

    The shop is twenty minutes walk away, where there's also a train station, bus stop, several bars.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    You can get to the village of Jimera de Libar by a lunchtime bus three days a week to / from Ronda, and there are two trains a day to the nearby station. It's easy to travel from here to the big places like Sevilla, Granada, Cordoba if you want to make it a base for getting to see Andalucia. It's a bus ride to Ronda from Malaga which has cheap flights from almost everywhere.

    This is a flexible workaway; we can negotiate almost everything about how / when / where; days on or off; tasks to do. Except the dates I mentioned are fixed. The weather is likely, not certain, to be mild or warm days and cool nights, and we are praying, uselessly, for rain .

    Sorry, but I really hate the general cut-and-paste applications - if you want me to take an application seriously, your message must include the words ' off grid, drought, flexible' . Thank for reading to the end !

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Podría aceptar mascotas

    Podría aceptar mascotas

    As long as they don't chase neighbour's sheep or want to sleep on the sofas

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    Más de dos

  • ...

    Horas esperadas

    20-25h a week

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 251889422485

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