Make life more fun and share experiences on our off grid hobby farm near Granada, Spain

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  Descrição

  We have a hobby farm in the middle of nowhere in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Granada.
  Over the last 15 years we have hosted over 400 people.
  
  If you look at our reviews you can see that most people have had a great time.
  
  Our farm is not commercial and we don't earn money from having the farm.
  
  We are retired and as long as we have fun we don't care that our farm is unprofitable. (sin animo de lucro)
  
  We enjoy, cooking, growing vegetables and trying to be as self sufficient as possible.
  
  Our farm is now almost completely carbon neutral apart from a little bit of gas for hotwater when the sky is cloudy.
  
  All our electricty for cooking, living, hot water etc is solar powered. We have an MG4 EV which is almost 100% solar powered.
  
  Our farm is in the middle of nowhere and we are sociable people so we like to have volunteers to make life more fun and to share our experiences.
  
  This is not like a job it is a cultural exchange. We like to get to know the volunteers. We are over 60 years old so maybe we are like cool grandparents. We never had children and we like to think we can get along as friends with anybody irrespective of age, race etc. We love to meet people from all over the world.
  
  So our farm is like a cultural exchange where you can learn about growing food, self sufficiency alternative technologies etc
  
  Many of our volunteers have gone on to put into practice what they have learned here.
  
  We currently have dates with the following fixed arrival and leaving days:
  
  AVAILABILITY:-
  
  DATE A
  Tuesday 1st Apr 2025 until Saturday 26th Apr 2025
  
  DATE B
  Tuesday 13th May 2025 until Saturday 31st May 2025
  
  DATE C
  Tuesday 17th Jun 2025 until Saturday 5th Jul 2025
  
  DATE D
  Tuesday 22nd Jul 2025 until Saturday 9th August 2025
  
  DATE E
  Tuesday 9th Sep 2025 until Saturday 27th Sep 2025
  
  IMPORTANT: Please state your DATE or arrival and leaving:
  
  You can request a longer period. In theory, longer stays of over a month are possible but only after a successful short stay.
  
  NOTE:
  Every word of our profile is a true and an accurate description of reality. We also require that your profile is truthful.
  
  The volunteers that we might be interested in would have these characteristics: interested in growing food, self-sufficiency and alternative technologies; don't mind about being isolated and in the middle of nowhere; and sociable and fun to be with.
  
  We will be planting, growing and harvesting vegetables and preparing to be as self-sufficient as possible.
  
  ABOUT US:
  We are an English couple who have lived in Spain for over 30 years. We spend our time between Granada, the coast and our off-grid cortijo in the mountains. We are mainly interested in help up at the mountain house.
  
  We have 36,000 m2 with about 160 olive trees, 800 grape vines, 100 almonds, almost all the fruit trees you can think of, a vegetable plot, about 5 springs, solar-powered electricity, solar water heating, and 10m x 5m swimming pool.
  
  We are 1300 metres above sea level. The nearest village is 6 km up a non-asphalt road. We don't have any children but have a dog named "Shep" and a cat called "Meg".
  
  We have hosted more than 400 workawayers over the last 14 years. We welcome people who like being in a beautiful, remote mountain setting. It is especially important that you are a pleasant sociable person with a good sense of humour who likes good conversation and can appreciate eating good healthy food. Although we are off-grid we have a good hot water system and life is fairly comfortable.
  
  Note: If you are a French, German, Spanish or Italian native speaker we might ask you to do translations into English.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Prática de idiomas

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
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  Interesses

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Fitness

  

  Dança

  

  Criação de vídeos

  

  Sustentabilidade

  

  Tecnologia

  

  Política/justiça social

  

  Mascotes

  

  Filmes e TV

  

  Fazenda

  

  Eventos e social

  

  Escrever

  

  Fotografia

  

  Cuidar de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Idiomas

  

  Mochilão

  

  Desenho e pintura

  

  Jardinagem

  

  História

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Blogs

  

  Livros

  

  Astronomia

  

  Animais

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Camping

  

  Caminhada
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  If you have any question about the Spanish language, we can give you a good answer because we are fluent in Spanish and also have spent many years as language teachers. If your level of Spanish is good enough, you could speak to us in Spanish however the main language at our farm is English. We have our own hiking group and we often organise hikes at the weekends when it is not too hot for hiking and there are usually around 15 Spanish people for you to practise your Spanish with. You will probably learn a lot about growing your own food and self sufficiency.

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  Ajuda

  The most important thing is that you like gardening and helping outside.
  
  Here are some examples of the help. Skim the dead insects off the swimming pool, sweep up the terraces, weed the flowerbed and vegetable plot, plant out lettuces, go with me to collect mulch, plant trees and bushes, pick peaches and other fruit, staple paper bags around the apples to stop the birds eating them, clean out the barbecue, cut the grass on the lawn, pick walnuts, crack almonds and walnuts for the muesli. Pick broad beans. Plant seeds. Let the chickens out. Shut the chickens up. Collect horse manure. Teach us something we don't know.

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  Idiomas

  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Fluente
  Francês: Iniciante

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  Acomodação

  There are 2 self-contained independent apartments for the volunteers and we shuffle the people around to get the best combination.
  We also have a couple of tents which sometimes people prefer but tents are always optional, you can always sleep in a bed.
  
  For breakfast, we normally eat our delicious healthy muesli which has our own nuts and dried fruit in. For the midday meal, we try to eat stuff that we have grown ourselves with either fish or meat. In the evenings in the summer, we have gazpacho or other ways of eating the abundance of really nice tomatoes, pepper, aubergines, etc. that we grow. We often cook outside on the barbecue. We have a wood oven for pizzas, bread and roasting etc. We eat mostly vegetarian food but we are not strict vegetarians. If you have special dietary requirements, you must tell us when you contact us. We don't take vegans or people who don't eat eggs.

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  Algo mais...

  The cortijo is 6km from the nearest sleepy village which has a population of about 1000. We have a good internet connection. Free Wifi is available in the main lounge and in outside areas but not everywhere. There is 4G coverage almost everywhere and if you have your own data there are nice places to sit to speak with your family etc.
  
  As the electricity system is solar you have to be careful to switch off lights and not waste electricity. There are lots of interesting walks all around the mountains. It would be very unsuitable for a city person who hates the countryside.
  Andalucia is very hot in August but as we are at 1300 metres, it is much more pleasant than lower down.
  
  IMPORTANT: There is plenty of time to connect to social media and keep in contact with your friends via Internet when you are here. However, if you are so addicted to using your phone that it prevents you from interacting with new people, then please don't come here. Using your phone at the dining table is not OK.
  
  Very shy, introverted people who almost never say anything don't tend to enjoy it much here. If you are in that category, you should choose a less sociable workaway place. We have volunteers to make life more fun. There is nothing wrong with being a very quiet person but we are looking for sociable people.
  
  What you can do on your days off: As most of the workawayers don't have their own transport, we often take everyone out on excursions. In the past, we have taken people down to the beach and a few times we have let everyone stay in a house we have in Granada. There is a lake about 6 km way which is good for swimming and we often take everyone down there on Sundays in the summer. Most weekends, we go on hikes with a walking group.
  
  It is necessary that you like eating vegetables. We don't take people who don't like tomatoes, who can't eat perfectly good things just because of the texture or are fussy eaters in general.
  
  We don't take volunteers with pets or children.
  
  Almost everyone who comes here leaves more healthy, more relaxed, fitter and happier than when they arrived.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  This option would only be a good idea for long term stays.

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