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🌿🏔️ Agritourism & Eco-Life in Nigüelas, Sierra Nevada | Farm, Nature & Learning in Spain

The experience

We are a family who run an olive farm with a hotel and a restaurant, Alqueria de Los Lentos in Nigüelas village at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, close to Granada. We love knowledge exchange and welcome volunteers interested in permaculture or bioconstruction. Help includes daily farm tasks (chickens, compost, firewood, shared spaces), weekly maintenance, and hands-on projects like gardening, all while enjoying nature and community life.🏞️

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Discounts on Restaurants: Get discounts at nearby restaurants.

Discounts on Pubs: Get discounts at nearby pubs.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate Spanish or Intermediate English

Between 20 and 40 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

European Union Passport

United States visa or citizenship

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are looking for people who can help and share, learn from each other and motivate each other, enjoy meeting and living together. We understand the value of a volunteer. You will also meet the team of the restaurant and the hotel : cleaning persons, waitresses and chefs.
We love the idea of exchanging knowledge, so if you know more about permaculture or bioconstruction, don't hesitate to help us.
You will be mainly helping with :
* daily tasks such as : feeding the chickens and cleaning the henhouse, preparing the firewood and organizing it, picking the horses’ manure and taking care of the compost, cleaning the common space (kitchen and library) and throwing away the garbage.
* weekly tasks such as : controlling the water pressure (solar panel, jacuzzi…).
* specific projects : building a mosaic for a patio, painting rooms’ walls, fixing stuff, planting aloe vera or other plants, taking care of the garden…

From beginning of 2026 till mid-june (?) , we want to focus on:
* improving infrastructures and building : for instance the mosaic’s patio.
* preparing the field for spring and summer planting.

What we would like to have as help :
* we aim to collaborate 4 hours per day, 5 days per week. Normally you have Thursday and Sunday off, but we can change the days.
* the timetable is up to you but better to start in the morning to have your free afternoon
* we are looking for people who stay for a longer period : 3 weeks at least.
* someone autonomous, who is not afraid to ask question when she/he is not sure, determined.

Activities & Shift

We offer:
* accommodation : a simple room with your own bathroom.
* internet available (free WIFI of the hostel)
* the food is NOT included : you have to buy your food (in the village : little grocery or 30min walking/7min biking you have LIDL and MERCADONA supermarket). But you will enjoy a nice common kitchen/library to cook your own meals.
* moments of sharing experiences and knowledge : eating from time to time together at the restaurant, drinking a beer, going to the associative bar (La Lolaina)...
We speak Spanish, English, Dutch and French.