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21 sept 2026
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Estancia mínima: Al menos una semana
Detalles
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Descripción
We are Roy and Mia, we live in the beautiful green Heart of Galicia. We have a wonderful place around the corner from a village, surrounded by nature. We live here as self-sufficient as we can and in accordance with the principles of Permaculture. We are living very basic. We have some animals. (not inside) We are looking for enthusiastic and physically strong people, who would like to help.
We like people who have an active attitude, who are in good shape and who are interested in our project. We have several skills, Roy is a draftsman and builder, bricklayer, plasterer, plumber and electrician for house installations. Mia is very creative in her thinking and acting, she has done various holistic skills and education. She loves to work with her hands, or through her hands.
(Gardener, nurse, "coupeuse", "costumiere", theater, hairdresser, holistic training ect.) We followed various healing training / courses and we are both firewalk instructors. We have followed the one year permaculture training in Holland in 2009.
We have a lot of creative ideas, especially the execution of it!
The chores we have are physical.
Welcome in a world of Inner Freedom, Peace, Self responsibility and beautiful new experiences of life!
We are also looking for housesitters.
Just contact us your availability. The best will be a couple who knows to live off gridd. -
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería básica
Proyectos creativos DIY «hazlo tú mismo»
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento básico
Cuidado de casas y mascotas
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Intereses
MascotasAgriculturaCuidado de plantasBricolaje y manualidadesCarpinteríaArte y diseñoArquitecturaActividades al aire libreNaturalezaJardineríaAnimales -
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
You can learn about Permaculture so also gardening, and using strimmer/weedwacker, grafting, DIY.
Experience living off the grid and being self-sufficient and how you can do that.
Free Spanish lessons, one in a school, one at home.e.
Tai Chi Qi Gong lesson once a week in the village. ( not in september)
Dancing classes in the village, ( in consultation)
Practice language: English, Papiamiento, Dutch and basic Spanish (at home) and German.
Processing the food from the land.
Enjoy living in nature.
Taking a warm bath in the Hot Springs in Ourense.
Go to the highest point of Galicia.
Living the Galician culture and contact with the locals, visit the local bar, where people meet here in Spain.
Visit the local markets, in our village twice a month.
2 hiking trails close by.
Cycling in the hilly landscape.
Take a fresh "dive" in the water after work. (Closeby) -
Ayuda
Gardening:
Garden help and garden expansion and with your help we can create the foodforest.
Weeding, planting trees, sowing, watering, harvesting. Finishing raised beds. Felling and pruning trees, grafting, finishing the fence.
Cutting wood, Repair and covering the greenhouse. Making a wooden profile for the chicken coop/greenhouse. Brush cutting. Making more compostheaps
Renew the wormhotel.
Animals:
Feeding the dog, cats, chicken, sheep.
Finishing the chicken coop, sheep pen,
Cleaning she chickencoop and sheep pen.
Maintenance:
Cleaning a water source and covering it, cleaning the place.
Restoration of a wood stove.
Anything else to be done on a farm.
Repair bycicle.
Help with general maintenance: diy, repairing, making a wood stock, fencing,
Change the ch coop.
Repairing the white cabin.
In return you'll get 3 meals, and other delights of the garden. Herbal tea from the garden, coffee. You make your own lunch on your free days in the kitchen next to the room. -
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Holandés: Fluido
Español: Intermedio
Alemán: Principiante -
Alojamiento
*In a room, with shared bathroom, normal toilet and warm/ cold shower, kitchen. There is electricity.
*The wooden cabin, with a terrace and a beautiful view! A solar lamp available for the evening. (No electricity In the cabin.)
You can take a shower from the hose or the other shower by the room.
No shoes in the living buildings.
You can charge your phone during the daytime. You need your own internet bundel.
There is internet in the bar in the village.
We eat mostly vegetarian.
No drugs and excessive drinking.
We like honesty and respect for our way of life and our private space and respect for our stuff and tools, like we do for you too.
We like people who show initiative and who can also work independently.
We do not smoke, Due to the drought, we will not invite smokers at the moment. -
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Busstop is 2 km from us (we can pick you up) This is also the busstop to Lugo and Ourense.
Trainstation is 30 km away, but you can reach it by bus.
The busstation to Santiago, Vigo, Ourense and Lugo, Monforte de Lemos is 10 km from us.( you can reach it by bus.)
In the village are two bars, (in one bar is also a restaurant) a bank with ATM, touristoffice.
Free Spanish lessons, one at school, one at home.
Tai Chi Qi Gong lessen once a week in our village.( not in september)
2 bikes available.
Twice a month a market in the village.
A little supermarket and postoffice, bars/restaurants at 2 km.
Mobile can be charged at daytime.
Everybody who eats/lives here, helps with washing dishes and setting/cleaning the table, this are no workinghours, it is a part of how we live.
What to bring: Clothes that can be dirty. (we have some sizes of boots and clothes for volunteers).
You need to have and bring your own liability insurance. We can ask for a copy off your passport.
A cap ( but we have, just in case)
Headlamp is very handy to have.
Little Swimmingpool closeby. -
Un poco más de información
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Acceso a Internet
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Acceso a Internet limitado
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Tenemos animales
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Somos fumadores
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Puede alojar familias
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Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
We have place for campervan/motorhome, with a beautiful view.
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She worked on raised beds and planted them later on with diverse plants. She went through the entire process of … read more
Mia and Roy have a finca with big garden and food forest and a lot of building reconstruction projects.
It is incredible to see how they were able to upgrade the place over the years.
I was helping Mia in the garden. She was giving me tasks she needed me to do in the garden. It was a … read more
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She worked on raised beds and planted them later on with diverse plants. She went through the entire process of … read more
Mia and Roy have a finca with big garden and food forest and a lot of building reconstruction projects.
It is incredible to see how they were able to upgrade the place over the years.
I was helping Mia in the garden. She was giving me tasks she needed me to do in the garden. It was a … read more
" to be of service". This couple is amazing. Peter has a lot of knowledge of the garden and has creative ideas. You really like to be in nature. We had to stop you, because you both kept going. You wanted to finish " the job". They both helped cleaning up our tiles, and sorted them.
Lenka, … read more
Roy and Mia are two great hosts, sweet, caring and you can share everything with them. I had a wonderful time working there. learned a lot such as shearing sheep and laying bricks. I gained a lot of inspiration on how I want to approach it in the future.
you haven't gotten rid of me yet!!🤪
You can adapt fast … read more
From the moment I got of the bus they made me feel welcomed by sharing their finca, their food and their stories with me.
Finca Castrovello is a beautiful place and you can truly feel how much of their own blood and soul they put … read more
He is to the point :). Very nice Kees that you stopped by, feel free to visit again when … read more
I hope to see them soon because they have lots of work to do and I felt always at … read more
Thanks a lot for your help, your patience, nice talks and a good time together. When we look back to those two weeks, we have done a lot of work.
Diego is person who is interested in everything of the project and he is calm, respectfull, helpfull and precise, and with a nice sense of humor. He is also a thinker, we noticed that after … read more
I think in a couple of days I have realized what an incredible place I have been during these last weeks. Sharing your home and project for 12 days has been a complete blessing to my experiences as Workaway.
About volunteering I can share that the profile is totally clear in what it describes. The work was essentially physical, … read more
They are really hard working couple doing their best to leave something for the future and I really appreciate that. The project they took upon their shoulders is huge and they are doing great job to make it happen.. It is a nice place (if you have a good weather haha) and if you are happy with basic … read more
pleasant working atmosphere and Mia and Roy can teach you a lot while working.
The food is really good. I hope to return someday
I’m not sure if I have enough words to express what I feel about this. My experience with Roy and Mia was beyond incredible, they were my first Workaway hosts and I couldn’t be happier! I was supposed to go there and help them but they taught me so many things I think I still owe them some more working … read more
Everything he approached went well, even though he had never done it before. It was very nice to see
that he liked how we … read more
I had such a lovely experience with Roy and Mia that I’m not even sure where to begin.
Firstly, Roy and Mia: they are a wonderful and thoughtful couple with big dreams for their land. A vision that I soon shared for sustainable living completely off the grid. I will never forget the several conversations we … read more
Keir 1-3-2019 1-4-2019 Keir stayed with us a month, which gave us some time to get to know him a little better.He is very good company, Keir is open, curious and interested in life and everything that happens around him. You set very high standards for yourself, but take them one step at a time.You can have a good laugh with him and it … read more
I enjoyed a lot the work in the garden and discovering the procedures of permaculture ! The days … read more
They projects were always different and we worked all around the place. Im happy I could help them building up their plan.
You told us that you did not like physical work. We told you, that is what we are looking for, so it is your … read more
Not only was the work interesting, diverse and well organized, both Roy and Mia were also exeptionnaly patient with me when it came to answering my endless list of questions on the topic of self-sustainable living and permaculture in general. I was … read more
I stayed two weeks. The first week in the cabin overlooking the garden and green house. The second week next in a big tent, next to the outdoor dining area. It was very relaxing. There was a nice balance of work, home cooked meals and … read more
Not only because you were a hard and very independant worker but also very good company to have around.
Your carpentry skills are very good and you are very much an allrounder, using a chainsaw and tractor.
You wanted to learn how to plaster and after just one day of plastering a wall you … read more
Mia and Roy are very nice. They do their best for you.
The work is very hard sometimes, so it can be a challenge for the … read more
Roy and Mia offered me the opportunity to stay with them on there farm, and it was a nice experience. I helped Roy mostly in the garden with various projects. The biggest one being the septic tank we emptyed of brambles.
There farm and surroundings is beautiful. Mia was always hospitiable, the food was good and the conversations … read more
Thank you for your feedback. I have learned a lot during my stay with you guys and one of the things I have learned was what my ideas are on living-ideology and on terms of work. And although our ideas on that are different, that does not mean that it is something bad, it’s just different.
It is good to hear that the replanted … read more
It seems to be that you had another idea of living of the grid and on basic terms and work. Thank you for helping us with replanting the raspberries and goiji berrie, they are doing very well. It was a pity you did not stay as you intended but we both agree that it was better like this.
Have a good time Kerwin.
Roy und Mia haben sich hier ihr eigenes kleines Reich aufgebaut. Sie haben eine interessante Art zu leben.
Ich hoffe die beiden kommen in Zukunft mit ihrem Projekt gut voran.
Für Workawayer in der Zukunft: Euch muss klar sein dass ihr hier auf sehr einfachem Niveau leben werdet, die Toilette ist … read more
You stayed with us for 6 weeks and you have done a lot here at our project.Your carpentry. plastering, plasterboard and lumberjack skills helped us forward a great deal.If you know Samuel a little better you can have a very good time with him. this smart young man is full of ideas and likes to solve problems in a creative … read more
Katy was a great help in the garden, ohhh you were watering the plants a lot because it was so dry and warm! You enjoyed biking to the village and have a chat with the local people. try to learn some spanish :) she is a very curious woman and likes to know everything about what we are doing.
Hope we gave you enough ideas … read more
The project is a big one! But they are really making great progress and their energy for it is impressive (though I hope they take … read more
Your sense of humor makes the day go by easy. You are really full of energy and have a good work attitude. Your laugter is contagious and you just like to keep on working :) We had a good time with you and it was a joy to work with you! It was only 8 days , but we will not forget you! Stay the bright woman you are!
Hee Ollen.
We really enjoyed your stay here in Galicia. We are happy we could be open to you and appreciate the way you went about your business. Your work on the cabin really showed your skills and independent way of working. You looked at the challege and found a solution. Remember the roof of the cabin? Good job. Your … read more
This young man is very helpfull. when you ask him to do something, he is willing to learn and do any task you ask.You find it diffucult to get loose of the computer, but the second week you just enjoyed yourself much more and understand how it is to live the life we do and you could open up yourself a little bit more.Thank you … read more
Roy and Mia are kind persons which own a beautiful piece of land in Galicia. Expect high temperature, a wide land, three dogs and nice people. :)
First: My english is bad, so it is hard for me to express what I want to say!
I spent little bit more than two weeks on their really big finca. Mia and Roy are working so much and hard to fullfill their dream of an independent and … read more
Picking walnuts, … read more