Help on a lonely mountain finca on Tenerife, Spain

Infos

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  Description

  Hello Challenge-seeker! 🌺🌸🌻🌼
  
  We are Maren & Michiel, 49 and 36 years old. We also have two children (12 and 8).
  
  The Finca (about 600 meters above sea level 🌊) is more than a gardening project. Our long-term vision is to create an ecological meeting place in the mountains of Tenerife: a green oasis where people can reconnect with nature, share knowledge, and enjoy simple living.
  At the heart of this project lies ecosystem restoration. The land was once dry, exposed, and heavily affected by wind and erosion. Step by step, we are working to bring life back to it by planting native species, creating habitats for insects and birds, improving soil health, and increasing biodiversity. We are fascinated by how nature heals itself when given the right conditions.
  In the future, we hope to host small cultural and educational activities such as workshops, drumming circles, nature experiences, and farm-to-table gatherings using products grown on the finca. We believe in biodiversity, sustainability, and creating spaces where people from different backgrounds can meet and inspire each other.
  Workawayers who join us become part of this journey—not just helping with practical tasks, but contributing to a dream that is still growing.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Ferme

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Écriture

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Photographie

  

  Langues

  

  Musique

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Jardinage

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Art et design

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Nature

  

  Cyclisme
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Our place is a peaceful sanctuary of natural beauty. We are committed to offering you the opportunity to simply be yourself and find inner peace, far from pandemics, the stress of civilization, pollution, rushing, and pressure.
  
  In the simplest conditions, you can reconnect with yourself and rediscover what truly matters in life, stepping out of a system that is destroying itself and the future of our planet. A system that keeps people passive, hypnotized, and full of fear in their comfortable, entertainment-filled lives, lacking spontaneity, expression, and vitality.
  Here, you can meditate, surrounded by the sound of the wind and the distant barking of dogs.
  
  The place offers a sense of remoteness, but the small village is just a 20-minute walk away. 🚶🏻‍♂️
  
  During your free time, you can enjoy activities like climbing (our finca is near by the most important climber’s zone of Tenerife, "Base camp Ortiz" 🧗🏻‍♀️, hiking, cycling 🚲, and if you go a bit further, you can surf 🏄, kite- or windsurf, paraglide 🪂, dive, visit the beach 🏖️, and explore the beautiful island of Tenerife.
  ❗But please keep in mind that the bus connections are not the best, so it may take some time to reach those places.
  
  There is also the possibility to play guitar 🎸 or djembe and sing 🎶 around the campfire 🔥 with us (only during the winter season due to the high risk of forest fires) if you enjoy that. Just ask! 😉

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  Aide

  For what are we searching 🔎?
  
  We are looking for a couple (or a hermit) with scout and DIY skills. The main goal will be creating the Workaway-area. First, we need to build the tent site 🏕️ and the outdoor kitchen. In the future, we will also need help building a chicken coop with a fence, wind protection structures and insect hotels.
  
  Building walls with natural stones from the area, moving stones and earth, making holes with a jackhammer to plant new plants are also current tasks, as well as watering and maintaining the plants.
  
  We are looking for people who embody resilience and simplicity, able to live with minimal needs and thrive in the face of nature's harshest elements.
  
  Michiel can work alongside you, but mainly you will need to carry out independently. For this reason, and since your stay as a Workawayer is quite autonomous, we are looking for people who are independent and do not require constant guidance.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Allemand: Courant
  Anglais: Courant
  Espagnol: Courant
  Italien: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Français: Débutant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  If you want to practice one of the below languages, you are welcome. We are a couple, Michiel speaks Dutch, English and quite some German, Maren speaks German, English, Spanish and Italian.
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  Hébergement

  The helper needs to come with his own camper van, we still don't have a workaway- camp build up. 🚐
  
  The Workawayer leads an autonomous life, it's important to understand that he's living on a lonely, sometimes really windy place and the contact to us will be not daily.
  
  FOOD: The helper will receive basic food (rice, pasta, coffee/tea, oat flakes, flour) and can enjoy some fruits (depending from season) that we are growing on our home finca.
  Once the trees on the Finca start bearing fruit (which will take some time), we will have lemons, oranges, figs, lilly pillies, gin berries, plums, papayas, soursops, medlars, cherries, kakis, coffee beans, and olives, as well as fresh vegetables (we have yet tomatoes 🍅, paprika 🌶️ and lemons 🍋).

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  Autres infos...

  Please be aware that even during winter, the sun can be very intense and hot. 🥵☀️
  
  The helper will live autonomously without comfort, connecting with nature🌿🌱 ⛰️ and, ideally, with themselves.😉
  We can share moments together when it fits, but it is NOT communal living. Please keep in mind that we also have other commitments, such as our children.
  
  Musicians are always welcome. 😁🪘🎻🎤🎷🪗🎶 WE LOVE 🩷 MUSIC.
  
  There is a bus stop 🚍 in the village (a 20-minute walk), but the connections are not so frequent like in a bigger town. But there is a shuttle that you can call that brings you down to the highway, where the buses are coming more often.
  
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  We are only interested in people who genuinely want to help, with a helpful attitude, and not just seeking a place to stay while considering work as an unavoidable evil. It is also important to treat the children kindly, being mindful that our child with Down syndrome may come to your space out of curiosity. We ask for kind and understanding reactions.
  
  Working schedule: 5 days a week, 3 hours per day (10:00 am - 1:00 pm).
  
  
  A 10-minute walk 🏃🏻 to a mini supermarket.
  A 20-minute walk 🏃🏻 to the next small town with a supermarket, bank, post office, 2 bars, a bakery, a butcher, a hardware shop, and a medical center. 🏘️ A 30-minute walk 🏃🏻 to Base Camp Ortiz (climbing area). 🧗🏻
  
  
  LGBTQ+ friendly. 🏳️‍🌈

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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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  Espace pour garer des vans

  You can park your camper on an open space on our finca. We also have our own mobile home parked there (it's called 'Gari,' like the 🐌 from SpongeBob 😄).

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Please note that the fences around the finca are not fully enclosed and may not prevent animals from escaping. You are welcome to bring your pets, as long as they are not aggressive, do not harm the cultivated plants, and do not dig or roam in the flower beds.

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  Mes animaux

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