Live 100% off-grid and help in our ECO olive and almond farmstay. **LAST MINUTE OK**

Hello there and welcome!

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*** Minimum stay is three weeks ***

We have hosted volunteers from France, Germany, Catalunya (Catalonia), The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Latvia, England, Hungary, Italy, the USA and Australia. Wherever you are from, you are welcomed.

We need help in the outdoors taking care of our olive and almond trees and general farm help. Farming experience valued. Work can involve pruning, planting, rebuilding dry stone walls, wood splitting and stacking, clearing the fields of stones, taking care of the vegetable garden, house sitting, etc. It all depends on the season and the needs of the moment.

We are looking for fit, self motivated, organized, handy, resourceful people.

We have available to you two fully rebuild small cottages, one with a kitchenette and an independent bathroon 125 meters nearby and another larger cottage with all amenities in it. Both cottages have wood stoves. We provide limited internet access. We are off-grid so electricity and water need to be used very sparingly, with guidelines we will give you if you come stay and work with us.

So you will have your own cottage, with total privacy and space. We look for volunteers that will commit to treat our places as if they were their own, or better. The cottage needs to be kept clean and tidy throughout your stay.

No smokers please. No pets, although we do have 7 chicken.

Our farm is in the middle of the countryside and 5 km away from Gandesa, Tarragona, Catalunya. You will have access to a bike to move around.

We will provide ingredients / food for all meals. We cannot cook everyday and every meal for you so you will have to adapt daily to what we can do and be ready to cook for yourself. We like volunteers to cook dishes of their own regions / countries and share them with us. Notice we do not eat meat. We also do not drink alcohol.

We like to welcome people from abroad to learn about Catalonia (a nation with no formal state) and its heritage and to share meals and conversations with people from other countries.

We are Carlota and Marc, a couple in their early 60's living in the Terra Alta, Tarragona, a remote region of our small country, Catalonia, taking care of our olive and almond trees. We have a background in technology and we are now organic, regenerative and permaculture farmers. We live 100% off-grid. We left the big city and came to the Terra Alta where we set foothold 16 years ago, got our land into production and ended up also rebuilding a couple of houses in a small village and a couple of cottages in the countryside of Gandesa. Carlota has a law degree (University of Barcelona) and I am a neuroscientist (University of California, Berkeley). Both have been entrepreneurs all our lifes, having created several companies. We have two sons, one is an architect now living in Barcelona designing and building all over the world and the other is a physicist specializing in data science and architecture living and working in Berlin.