Come and join our organic farm project in Ralun, Chilean Patagonia

  • Last activity : 31 Oct 2024

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  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    We are a Chilean / French couple with our little boy, we live on the edge of the first fjord of Patagonia
    We were travelling for 4 years in Latin America, the Caribbean, western Europe and the Atlantic Ocean ... now we wanted to take root ... cultivate what we sow.
    We were lucky to find this hidden paradise in the rain forest of the pre-mountain range, about 200 meters above sea level where we are developing an organic farm since 2018. We want to produce natural, organic food and medicine.. for sustenance and sale.
    we live with a dog, 2 cat, a donkey, chickens and forest birds.
    Traveling we were doing different types of informal volunteers ... we liked it and learnt from it.
    We find this way of learning, exchanging and helping each other very interesting

    Somos una pareja chileno/francés con nuestro hijo, vivimos al borde del primer fiordo de la Patagonia
    Durante 4 años estuvimos viajando en américa latina, caribes, europa del oeste y el océano atlántico… ahora quisimos echar raíces… cultivar lo que sembramos.
    Tuvimos la suerte de encontrar este rincón de paraíso en el bosque de la precordillera, a 200msnm, donde empezamos a desarollar una granja orgánica desde 2018. Queremos producir alimentos y medicina naturales y orgánicos, para sustento y venta.
    Vivimos con un perro, dos gatitas, una burra, gallinas y las aves del bosque.
    Viajando estuvimos haciendo diferentes tipos de voluntariados informales…nos gustó y nos enriqueció.
    Encontramos muy linda este forma de aprender, intercambiar y ayudarse mutuamente.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Charity Work
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    We believe that we all learn from each others ... we will be happy to learn from you !! Your experiences, your language, your worldview, your recipes, your talents...

    We are trying to get to a healthy, beautiful and sustainable way of life... cultivating with permaculture principles, raising our child in nature, sharing with animals ....
    We like to share experiences, new ideas, theories ...

    We could talk about: environmental interpretation; knowledge of the local flora and fauna; orchards and construction; cosmetics and medicine natural...

    We have traveled in different places and we like to remember those moments by sharing them


    Creemos que cada uno está aprendiendo de los otros…estaremos felices de aprender de ti !! Tus experiencias, tu idioma, tu cosmovisión, tus recetas de cocina, tus talentos….

    Nosotros estamos intentando llegar a un modo de vida sano, bello y sustentable, cultivando con principios de permacultura, viviendo con templanza, criando nuestro hijo en la naturaleza, compartiendo con animales…
    Nos gusta intecambiar experiencias, nuevas ideas, teorías, vivencias…

    Nos gusta y hemos desarrollado algunos temas de cuales te podríamos aportar: interpretación ambiental ; conocimiento de la flora y fauna local ; huertos y construcción ; cosmética y medicina natural y casera…
    Hemos viajado en lugares muy distintos y nos gusta revivir esos momentos compartiéndolos

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    All help is welcome ... we have many projects and according to your strength and knowledge we can find you something to do!
    Ideally we need help in :
    - Orchard: maintenance, harvesting, weeding ... We also want to expand our cultivation areas
    - Construction and maintenance
    - Help in our herborist laboratory ( )
    - Winter: sustainable management of firewood, canning…
    - Cooking
    - If you have knowledge or talents in these areas we will ask you help in decorative painting, design of an interpretive path,
    - This year we want to install an hydroelectric mini turbine ...


    We are looking for positive and respectfull people… hopefully having some experience in what we want to do!


    Toda ayuda es bienvenida… tenemos muchos proyectos y según tu fuerza y conocimientos te podemos encontrar algo que hacer !
    Idealmente necesitamos ayuda en :
    - Huerto: mantención, recolección, desmalezar… También queremos ampliar nuestras zonas de cultivo
    - Construcción y mantencion de los espacios y caminos
    - Ayuda en el laboratorio de nuestra herboristeria Sabia Savia
    - Invierno: manejo sostenible de leña, conservas…
    - Cocina
    - Si tienes interes o talento en estas areas te podriamos pedir ayuda en pintura decorativa, diseño de un sendero interpretativo ...
    - este año queremos instalar una mini turbina hydroelectrica!

    Buscamos personas positivas, sanas y que ojala tengan alguna experiencia en lo que queremos realizar!

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    French: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    You can stay in a small wooden hut, la cabaña (with kitchen, bedroom, solar shower and dry toilet)
    You’ll need your sleeping bag and flashlight!

    On working days we offer 3 daily meals ovo-lacto vegetarian: drinking spring water from the montain, having homemade bread and jams, always having the delicious ulmo honey from the area, eggs from our chickens, medicinal herbs to drink and in season eating as much as possible the fruits and vegetables from our place

    In the cabaña there will be a stock available for gaz, flour, oats, honey, jam, legumes, rice, tea, coffee, herbs ... the breakfast is taken in the cabaña.

    On rest days you will have to prepare your meals in the kitchen of the cabin,
    We live 2 km uphill from the road ... there are no stores very close bring whatever you think is essential!

    Internet is limited. we have Wi-Fi only in our house. There is no wifi in the volunteer cabaña.
    You can bring a SIM phone from the Entel company,and you will have 4G in your cabaña.



    Esta disponible una pequena cabaña (con cocina, pieza , duchar solar y bano seco ) para recibir voluntariados. Tu saco de dormir y linterna seran necesarios!

    Los días de trabajo ofrecemos 3 comidas diarias ovo-lacto vegetariana: tomamos agua sabia de vertiente, hacemos pan y mermeladas caseros, siempre tenemos la riquísima miel de ulmo de la zona, los huevos son de nuestras gallinas, siempre hay hierbas medicinales para tomar y en temporada comemos lo más posible las frutas y verduras de nuestra huerta
    En la cabana habra un stock a disposicion de gaz, harina, avena, miel, mermelada, legumbres, arroz, té, café, hierbas... El desayuo se toma en la cabana.

    Internet es algo limitado ya que tenemos wifi solamente en nuestra casa. En la cabaña de voluntarios no hay wifi . Si tienes o traes un telefono con SIM de la compania Entel tendras 4G en tu cabaña.

    Los dias de descanso tendras que preparar tus comidas en la cocina de la cabana,
    Vivimos a 2 km cuesta arriba de la carretera... no hay tiendas muy cercanas trae lo que te parezca essencial !

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We live in a natural paradise, around you can enjoy and interact with the tides of the Reloncavi estuary, the native evergreen laurifolio forest,
    You can go trekking from the house, go kayaking in the Petrohue river, go to hot springs, lagoons, fishing, climbing in Cochamo ...
    The nearby area offers many ideal places to see,
    We are close to cochamo, puelo, petrohue…there are every day buses
    You need 30min to go to Ensenada and 1hour to Puerto Varas






    Vivimos en un paraíso natural, al rededor podrán disfrutar e interactuar con fauna y flora del bosque nativo laurifolio siempre verde, y las mareas del estuario del reloncavi
    Se pueden hacer excursions a pie, salir en kayak en el rio Petrohue, ir a las termas de Ralun, banarse en distintas lagunas, ir a pescar, escalar en la Junta de Cochamo...
    La zona ofrece muchos rincones para disfrutar de la naturaleza !

    Estamos muy cerca de cochamo, puelo, petrohue..pasan buses cada dia.
    Estamos a 30min de Ensenada y a 1hora de Puerto Varas.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

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    Hours expected

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

Host ref number: 265345448934

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