Join us at our growing homestead and ecofarm in Galicia, North of Spain

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  Description

  Hello & welcome to Galicia! We are Alice (Dutch) and Alberto (Spanish). In the beginning of 2023 we bought a beautiful traditional farmhouse located in the green heart of Galicia (North West of Spain), where we are working hard to create a more sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle for ourselves, our little daughter and for others to share it with.
  
  Our land is about +/- 6000m2 with a vegetable garden with a big greenhouse, a vineyard of around 1500m2, many fruit trees and a natural spring. It is fully surrounded by a traditional stone wall with amazing views, forests and wild animals around. The location is rural, but in walking distance (2 minutes) to a quiet, though lively village with most amenities, +/-10 minutes by car from the town Monforte de Lemos and +/-30 minutes from the city of Ourense.
  
  Besides living a simple lifestyle and trying to become as self-sufficient and sustainable as possible, we're planning to start a small-scale farmstay/camping. Note: WorkAwayers will only be involved helping out in the non-economical projects in and around our home and homestead.
  
  This beautiful green region of Galicia is called 'Ribeira Sacra' and it's one of the best kept secrets of Spain. Really, it is a hidden gem! It is not as rainy as other parts of Galicia and it has a more mild, meditarian climate. It's known for its wine production from vineyards on the steep slopes of the canyons of rivers Miño, Sil and Cabe. The area is slowly getting more discovered by tourists from Spain and abroad, but it's still keeping its unique authenticity.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  In 2019-2020 we've travelled the world ourselves doing WorkAway projects. Now we're finally settled down in an amazing part of Spain, trying to work towards a more sustainable lifestyle by creating our own homestead. If you stay with us you can learn from our experience and we are eager to learn from you too. Alberto studied Biology and Biodiversity and knows a lot about nature and wild foraging (incl. mushrooms). He is also the one with the most knowledge and experience with permaculture, regenerative agriculture, bio-intensive farming and market gardening. He's also quite handy and knows about general construction and you can practice your Spanish with him. Alice is very entrepreneurial, she is collaborating with very interesting non-profit organisations in an international network and has created many sustainability projects by and for youth. Her dream is to organise youth exchanges, volunteer camps and educational activities at our homestead to (re-)connect (young) people to themselves, to each other and to nature and inspire them to create a more sustainable work & lifestyle. She's also a hard-working mom that keeps the household together ;-)

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We're looking for people that want to help us growing our homestead. We need help with maintaining and improving our +/- 6000m2 of land with a big greenhouse, many fruit trees, restoring 1500m2 of vineyard, helping with our food production/vegetable garden, making preserves and other products from our harvest, building new constructions, f.e. a chicken coop and a shed/porch, repairing parts of our traditional stone wall surrounding the land, reviving our natural water spring, fixing up some old furniture and help with some renovation work on the house. Experience is very welcome, but not a must, motivation and a fun attitude is :-) Keep in mind that the work is generally pretty physical, but there is much work to choose from to keep it manageable, diverse and interesting.
  
  Particular skills/knowledge/experience that we could use at the moment are:
  - Gardening knowledge and experience - weeding, planting, pruning, making an irrigation system)
  - (Fruit) Tree maintenence - pruning and maintaning our old fruit trees
  - Dry stone walling - for restoring and enforcing our traditional stone wall surrounding the land.
  - Construction of simple structures - like a fence, stone terras, a shed, a chicken coop, a pergola, a natural playground
  - Repairing our water spring and water basin.
  
  From September we need help with grape harvesting and wine making - No special skills or experience are required for this.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Espagnol: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Allemand: Intermédiaire
  Galician: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
  Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
  
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  Hébergement

  There is a spacious and comfortable private room available in our house for 1-2 persons. It has a double and single bed, a desk and a wardrobe. The kitchen, bathroom, sitting room and dining area are common spaces. You can also make use of our amazing roofed balcony of almost 30m2 (no smoking though).
  
  We also offer comfortable tent accomodation on our land. This will be possible from April/May 2024. There is also enough space to put your own tent or campervan somewhere on the land. We are momentarily working on an outdoor kitchen and sanitairy facilities for guests and volunteers that will be usable from April/May 2024.
  
  Internet is available in and around the house.
  
  We offer 3 meals a day in return for your help 4-5 hours a day/5 days per week. Breakfast is more or less self service ;-) Usually we keep our lunch simple; sometimes we prepare something together and other times we make something for ourselves. We have a big (warm) family meal around 18:00 all together, but we can always work around your preferences if you prefer it differently. We have a balanced and full-filling vegetarian diet, but occasionally we can provide meat if you prefer. We do some grocery shopping about once a week, so we're open to talk about your preferences and do it together.
  
  Bedtime for our daugther is between 19:00 - 20:00 o'clock, so from this time on we ask for your considaration to keep the noise down in parts of the house and the bedrooms.

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  Autres infos...

  From our house it's a short walk to the village (like really short, about 2-3 minutes). It has a small market 2 times a month and quite some amenities (2 small supermarkets, 3 cafes, a library, a bakery, 2 banks, 2 agrishops, a school and more). Also the biggest wine festival of the area, and probably the biggest one you've ever seen, takes places here annually at the end of March. Here all local wine producers sell and promote their wines and many music and art performences take place day and night.
  
  Furthermore, the house is surrounded by beautiful nature and old pathways to discover. The canyon of the Cabe is nearby and also a waterfall in the right season (from Autumn to the beginning of Summer) ;-) In our free time we love to go on walks and explore the area, so you're always welcome to join in. We also have a bicycle available if you want to go a bit further. In the months of July and August the public swimming pools of the village are open (about €2,50 p.p.).
  
  Public transport
  The nearest airport is Santiago de Compostela. The closest town with good public transport connections is Monforte de Lemos. There is a bus connection from the nearby village to Monforte de Lemos, but it's not very regularly. A taxi is about 10-15 euros. We usually drive 1 or 2 times a week to Monforte, so we can always pick you up or drop you off somewhere if we can combine the trip. From Monforte there are fast and easy bus connections to the city of Ourense. From there you can even reach Madrid in 3 hours by high-speed train.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  We have a desk and good desk chair available with a stable internet connection.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  We have enough space around the house to park your van. Electricity could be arranged too.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Yes, but they must get along with kids and other animals.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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