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Permaculture Farm to Table Jungle Homestead Experience in Guatemala

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The experience

We are currently facilitating a volunteer program to lead, manage and enrich the land, the animals, and the community in a healthy way.

🌱 This mostly includes gardening, harvesting and processing fruits and vegetables from the land, taking care of the land, cleaning paths, and renovating some of the older buildings into comfortable, functional spaces.

What you offer

15 hours of help per week

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

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 5 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: $5 per day to cover the basic minimum expenses of food, supplies, electricity, wifi, utilities, materials, etc.

What you get

3 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.

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

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

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Spanish

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Hi! 👋🏼 We are makers, designers, artists, alchemists, visionaries and advocates for creating a new Earth: anchored with old-world wisdom, ignited by modern technology, in which we thrive harmoniously with each other, nature, and the natural cycles of life.

Our mission is to build a regenerative neighborhood and community homestead; focused on health, growth, balance, community and innovation; and to provide a safe space for exploration, nourishment, education, celebration and healing. ❤️

We are nestled in the tropical mountains above Chicacao, Guatemala, a one hour drive from Lago Atitlán, two hours from Antigua, three hours from the capital city, and three hours from the pacific beaches, and the trending surf town of El Paredon.

This farm was a historic coffee plantation, with 27 buildings, functioning water and electrical systems, and old fruit trees that were planted decades ago…

Activities & Shift

This land is extremely abundant, and grows fast. We have food of all kinds, and planning the intention re-forestation of a designated section of the land, to become an interactive food forest.

**Fruits on the land are:** 40yr+ old fruit trees: mangos, coconuts, avocados, mandarin, lime, orange, banana, cacao, coffee, banana, sapote, mame, sapodilla, guyaba, and more…

**Vegetables on the land:** sweet potato, camote, yakon, pacaya, jisote, vegetables, herbs, flowers,

We have infrastructure to build a nursery and cultivate many varities of plants, for our own consumption, study and sale to the town and travelers at the lake. Medicinal plants are worth a good amount of money, and rare varieties even more. We already have many high-yield fruit trees and plants here that we can clone, in addition to continuing to grow the collection over time.

+ 3 hours per day, 5 days per week.

Rules


+ We currently have 2 dogs and 3 cats on the farm. If your animal is trained, friendly, and non-violent, then we can discuss bringing them.
+ Make sure your truck/van/bus is able to climb up some rocky backroads. Low cars and RVs will not make it. An 11-window bus was able to make it. If you're curious, just ask and we can evaluate.
+ The wifi is good in the office. Once you walk off onto further parts of the property, it cuts off. Sometimes the electricity goes out in rainy season in the evenings, but usually comes on either within a few minutes, or by the next day.

Full handbook and agreement sent upon acceptance to the project.