Permaculture experience

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Connect with nature: 45 travelers recommend this experience for reconnecting with nature
Learn about sustainability: 41 travelers learned about sustainability working with this host
Accepts couples and pairs of volunteers

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What you offer

25h

Hours per week: Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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What you get

Days off per week: Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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

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

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Support: Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.

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Availability

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Stay at least: 2 weeks

Stay up to: 1 month

The Experience

We open our doors to co-create, share and teach about our lifestyle, together with people who share the same purposes, namely self-healing, self-knowledge, spirituality, personal fulfillment and living in an integrated way with nature. Given our personal and collective purpose, we seek to live in a simple and rich way. When it comes to communion with nature, in our routine we adopt practices with the aim of generating the least possible impact on

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Requirements

Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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72 Reviews

4.5

Host & Team

5.0

Hours & Tasks

5.0

Shared Home

4.5

Learning & Fun

5.0

How this experience will transform you

45 Get in touch with nature
41 Learning about sustainability
40 Developing environmental awareness
36 Meeting locals
28 Developing social awareness
27 Immersing in the local culture

This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals

9 15. Life on land
8 12. Responsible consumption and production
5 3. Good health and well-being
5 11. Sustainable cities and communities
3 8. Decent work and economic growth
2 17. Partnerships for the goals

Natalia

Poland

My experience at Comuna Floresta was amazing. This experience has not much in common with actual work, but mostly with sharing time, days, meals and exchanging knowledge with each person there. Ananda and other volunteers made it feel like home. He also took me on many boat trips with tourist where I would assist him. He also shared a lot of knowledge about permaculture and eco tourism. Sometimes children of one of the volunteer would come and visit which made it even more wholesome as there are so adorable. Playing with them and sharing the time all together made it feel like a family.

about 2 months ago

thomas

United States

For great adventures around Paraty Ananda is the man! He introduced me to great people, took me to collect rare berries and we rowed through the only tropic Fjord in the world. We had some heavy rains that took out the power and the accomodation was basic and a work in progress but it was a great experience I recommend to anyone who wants to get the know the area and do cool tours and activities.

2 months ago

Mathilde

France

Ananda is really a great person with a very nice soul, is extremely kind and sharing. His idea to build an eco village in Paraty is a beautiful project and it really shows that is ready to da lot to make is dream of leaving in a more ecological way come true. He's a trip guide in Paraty and he gave me the opportunity to come with him to all the trip that he had organized, that was fantastic. The only thing is that when I applied to this experience I thought that I would stay in the eco villa of Paraty but it's not finished and I stayed at Ananda house. Except that it was a beautiful.

4 months ago

Sophie

Ukraine

I came to Paraty mirim and wasn't provided with promised accomodation. The host offered me to stay at his friends' houses and I felt uncomfortable. The tours were included, but that's it

10 months ago

Flor

Peru

Was a beautiful experience. Connection with nature and learning about sustainability was really present and something that everyone should experience and learn from. There were few people in the community but we had quality time together. There are beautiful beaches, lakes and waterfalls to go to in the free time that are at easy reach. The hygiene from the tents could be a bit better, as in maybe take your own bedsheets or wash them before using them. Would totally recommend this experience to anyone !

over 2 years ago

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