Permaculture farm and homestead family life in Kota, Malaysia

Detalles

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  Descripción

  We are a permaculture farm and family homestead with 3 young children. We have been tending to this land since 2019 and have been trying to make her healthy and beautiful. Animals on the farm: goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, humans. We harvest rainwater and use a compost toilet. Other than permaculture, we draw inspiration from natural farming, syntropic agroforestry, and regenerative agriculture. We are trying to root ourselves to the land and rely less on the global industrial system for our needs.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Jardinería básica

  Proyectos creativos DIY «hazlo tú mismo»

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda en una granja

  Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos

  Cocinar para toda la familia

  Ayuda doméstica
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  Intereses

  

  Senderismo

  

  Actividades al aire libre

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Deportes de equipo

  

  Sostenibilidad

  

  Agricultura

  

  Animales

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Carpintería
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  Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

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  ¿Que es esto?
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  We are a Chinese family with 3 kids (3, 6, and 9 years old). I grew up in Singapore and have spent years in the US and Hong Kong. My wife Su Yi is from nearby Malacca.
  
  We live in a village (called kampung here) with the majority being Malays and some indigenous people (orang asli). You can meet them. Please dress modestly when outside: for women the minimum is t-shirt and shorts covering the knees.
  
  We are interested in meeting people from different backgrounds who want to learn about our life here.

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  Proyectos con niños

  En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

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  Ayuda

  Garden tasks: Volunteers will help with farm work like pruning trees, weeding, spreading manure, herding goats, feeding animals. The climate here is warm and humid. There are also many types of biting insects that you might encounter like mosquitoes, bees, wasps, leeches, and ticks. Our garden is a food forest, very different from straight rows of annual crops. We plant mostly perennial plants (eg fruit trees, long cycle plants) and barely water them.
  
  Household help: Equally important is household work like cooking, cleaning, taking care of young children, etc. Enjoying being with noisy and naughty kids is a must.
  
  Please note that we do slaughter animals on the farm to eat. You do not have to participate in slaughtering but meals might include them.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Inglés: Fluido
  Chino (mandarín): Fluido
  Malay: Intermedio

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  Alojamiento

  Volunteers have their own house made from old wood. There are fans but no air-conditioner. You will sleep on a thin mat on the floor with mosquito netting. Harvested rainwater is used for cleaning and showering; if it runs out we hand-draw water from our nearby well. There is no hot water for showering (weather is so warm anyway). There is electricity but no WIFI.
  
  There is no separate kitchen for volunteers. Meals will be prepared and eaten at our house. At the moment we cannot cater to specific diets (eg vegetarian, vegan, halal, raw food). At times we eat wild meat if we get them, like wild boar, python, monitor lizard. We do keep leftovers to be eaten the next day. Sometimes we buy cooked food from outside, or friends and relatives might give us some too. If you are picky about food, this is not the place for you.
  
  We handwash our laundry by the well. There is a semi-automatic washing machine that we only use to spin dry the washed clothes since it is a lot of effort to carry water from the well to use the wash function.

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  Algo más...

  We have bicycles for you to explore the village.
  
  There is a nearby mountain Guning Datuk for a day-trip climb. The views up at the summit is beautiful.
  There are also cool rivers to soak in on hot days and hot springs for cold days.
  It is a 45-minute drive to a nearby beach that we visit often.

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  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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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  We do not have WIFI here but we get decent mobile data.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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  Mis animales / mascotas

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