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Experience Mexican culture on our sustainable family farm

The experience

We are a small family farm dedicated to the production of rabbits for consumption. We have big projects this year, among the most important are building a vegetable garden, a cistern to collect rainwater, building a new house for our chickens and projects in our garden such as decoration, gardening in general and we are anxious to finish building our pool, a pizza oven and our barbecue area. If you have some experience it would be great

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

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.

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!

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

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

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 18 and 40 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Hello, we are Pablo, Jessy and Mela, we are a family from Mexico, we live in the state of Hidalgo, one hour from Mexico City.

Our family loves country life and we are passionate about the idea of ​​creating our own self-sustaining farm.

For 3 years we have had a rabbit farm for meat production and some chickens for egg consumption. We are also working on building a small vegetable garden for our own consumption, which we want to fertilize with the rabbits' manure. We are also working on remodeling our vegetable garden.

We are eager to see the result, as we are building our own pool and an oven to make delicious pizzas, Italian style, which we learned to make on our trip.

This year we have many interesting projects and we will certainly need a lot of help and we would be happy to continue meeting people from different parts of the world, and share a lot of what we have.

We have had the opportunity to volunteer in several countries, and it has certainly been a unique and exciting experience. Now we want to share this experience and be wonderful hosts.

In our family we always keep the spiritual part in mind and we are happy every day to have a new day and we thank God.

We also love to visit different places and go out to explore nature, and of course you will be invited every week we have different plans.

For these activities, what matters most is enthusiasm and the desire to learn. If you are excited about living in a sustainable environment, getting to know new places and being part of this family, this is the right place.

We are looking forward to meeting you and having fun together!

Activities & Shift

The main activities to do on the farm are:

Cleaning and feeding of animals such as rabbits, chickens, cows and sheep
We are recently remodeling the back part of the garden and we need help with someone artistic who has an idea of ​​decoration and will help us plant bushes, build a pergola and of course in everything we will be accompanying them and teaching them how to use each tool.

We are in the process of being an eco-sustainable farm, and we want help with the family garden that we will be starting to build and as well as maintain it, water the garden, harvest, collect the fertilizer from the rabbits and package it to have it ready in the garden, all this to have organic foods produced by us.

Another activity that we are looking for is to make a house for our chickens, since they are currently cold in a large warehouse that we have, and we want to give them a better life, so we are looking to build a small chicken coop where we will have our chickens to lay their eggs, which They will feed us day by day.

Rules

We accept couples or solo travelers.
Minimum stay of one month.
We regularly eat meat and animal products in our diets.
If you are sensitive to the topic of animals, this may not be the best place for you, as much of our work involves them.
Our home is a drug-free space.
Smoking is not allowed inside the house.
We always strive to live in a clean and organized environment.
Usually, we will invite you to the places we visit, but if you wish to do something different, you can, and we will find a way to help you.
You are always welcome to join all the house activities and family gatherings.