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28 oct 2025
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Hi everybody, sorry to be a poor host, we have had very poor internet for a long time.
My wife, (and our two daughters, Daphne and Trixie) have a farm in the mountains of Nicaragua. We have cows, pigs, dogs, bananas (lots of bananas!) and are expanding our list monthly. We have 5 acres of passion fruit as well.
We were going to build cabanas and offer farm stays/horse back tours through coffee country,.. and we will when the tourists come back. There are currently only very adventurous travellers here at the moment, although the political situation is up in the air at the moment, Nicaragua is still far safer than other countries in Central America.
As our number of animals increases we are constantly building new accommodation for them, just finishing stage one of the new pig house and planting an acre of sorghum and beans to keep them fed.
Our goal is self sustainability including food for ourselves, 3 full time workers and the 50 odd animals roaming about the place.
I am Canadian, my wife is Salvadorena.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Trabajo de caridad
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Hostelería/turismo
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
You will definitely learn Spanish if you work with our guys. You will learn a lot about rural Nicaraguan life and more technical stuff like how to tube a cow, how to shoe a horse, how to pull a stuck calf, even how to administer IV fluids if you choose.
If you choose to work around the house and gardens instead of the barn, you will learn how to compost, build a raised garden, manage an irrigation system. Opportunities are endless. Our typical week includes welding, carpentry, brick laying, gardening, animal wrangling and cooking. Lots of cooking! I am a former chef and my wife an excellent baker, hopefully our brick oven will be up and running, if not, you can help build it and learn how to make refractory cement at home!
Opportunities to volunteer at the local school (which is next door) are available teaching grades 1 through 7. Distributing smokeless wood stoves, training horses (our foreman is a master horse trainer- requires good knowledge of Spanish obviously) learning about the coffee industry, cultivating, picking, pulping...
Lots to do here.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
Gardening, building stuff, looking after baby cows if they aren't feeling well. We are also involved in distributing smokeless stoves to the community with the financial assistance of a group of vet clinics in Canada. Hopefully bringing tourists on horse back tours through coffee country will be a thing again soon as well.
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Fluido
Francés: Fluido
Alojamiento
As of now, you will be living in the main house in the guest room, private bath, garden access, mountain view and all the dogs you wish to cuddle with. Guest house, 100 metres away is ready to be built. Foundation in place, stones and wood ready,... come build it! Dinner will be with us (Saturday is pizza night) where you will eat with a very entertaining 1 year old. We eat simply for breakfast and lunch (oatmeal or eggs for breakfast, bruschetta or quinoa for lunch and extravagantly for dinner,.. roast chicken with garlic mashed potatoes, butternut squash, arugula/beet salad for dinner tonight)
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We are 40 minutes from Matagalpa, a vibrant coffee centre city of Nicaragua. 20 minutes up the mountain is deep jungle and coffee plantations. Quetzals and exotic birding, jungle walks at Esperanza Verde, indigenous villages, but really, you will just want to sit on the steps, stare at the view and pet the dogs, play fetch with Spooky the cattle dog and have a cold beer after a day of work. That is what we do at least.
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Este anfitrión ha indicado que le encanta acoger a nómadas digitales.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Uno
Mis animales / mascotas
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We still keep in touch and are glad to have a new friend in Germany. We hope to have her back sometime in the future.
Highly recommended workawayer, we would give her ten… read more
For work, I mostly spent time with the two daughters, who are both incredibly open and spirited for their age. I truly felt as if I’d known them forever… read more
Well, an unused farm building was the starting point but he is very competent builder and we hope to have him back soon.
He has been helpful in ways I cannot even begin to express but he was a lifesaver in a crunch and very reliable, level headed fellow.
Come… read more
I assisted as much as I could with household chores like sweeping, cleaning the kitchen,… read more
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We still keep in touch and are glad to have a new friend in Germany. We hope to have her back sometime in the future.
Highly recommended workawayer, we would give her ten… read more
For work, I mostly spent time with the two daughters, who are both incredibly open and spirited for their age. I truly felt as if I’d known them forever… read more
Well, an unused farm building was the starting point but he is very competent builder and we hope to have him back soon.
He has been helpful in ways I cannot even begin to express but he was a lifesaver in a crunch and very reliable, level headed fellow.
Come… read more
I assisted as much as I could with household chores like sweeping, cleaning the kitchen,… read more
If you are interested in farming, this is the place. From day one on we learned so many things about all different kinds of fruits and vegetables, construction work and farming in general.
James, Enedy, their cute daugther Trixie and their 8 (!!!) well trained dogs… read more
