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25h
- Hours per week
- Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.
- Animal Care
- Help look after and take care of animals.
- 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
- Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.
- 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.
- Fast Internet Access
- High-speed internet for you to work remotely
- Use our equipped kitchen
- Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
- Free Laundry
- You can use our laundry room freely.
- Bikes at your disposal
- You can use our bikes any time you want.
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- Stay at least
- 2 weeks
- Stay up to
- 12 weeks
The Experience
Hello we are looking for a mechanical engineer to design and execute with one of our staff a system to keep our bread divided dough resting in our permaculture bakery. Your task will be to design this system on computer if one of our program (solidworks, freecad or other). we will release the design in open source and free to use after for other baker in the world. don't hesitate to ask us more about it.
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- Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
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Hours & Tasks
Farmstay
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How this experience will transform you
- 4 Meeting international travelers
- 3 Get in touch with nature
- 2 Practicing English
- 1 Developing environmental awareness
- 1 Meeting locals
- 1 Learning about sustainability
Any
Brazil
My experience volunteering was very good. Xavier was very kind and taught me a lot about making sourdough bread. My daily tasks were basically cleaning the kitchen utensils and weighing the ingredients. Lew, Yaya and Manah were also very friendly. The permaculture project is being renewed and I believe that future volunteers will have an even more rewarding experience.
4 months ago
Xavier replied
Thank you Any for coming we do appreciate to have you with us, have a good trip and we wish you all the best.
Ida
Germany
Overall, your main task is to take care of animals, which is quite fun if you love animals. You'll get to interact with rabbits, chickens, turkeys, guinea chickens, and dogs. However, there are a few downsides. The food is not great, and the accommodation is rather old, often becoming dirty quickly due to sharing the space with chickens. Xavier and Lew are kind, but don't expect to form a personal connection with them like you might with other hosts. On your off days, the farm is really nice to explore Chiang Mal.
4 months ago
Xavier replied
Thank you Ida for coming. About the food as you have some food restriction our team has been cooking for you changing our usual menu. So we are sorry you didn't apreciate our effort. Regarding the chicken and as I explained we have been making a choice a few years ago to have them living outside and regulating pest eating scorpions, spiders, centipedes, small snakes and all others insects that there is in Thailand.
Finally we regret you didn't mention the good moment we had together with group.
Fiorella Alessandra
Peru
I was able to learn about the bread-making process, connect with the surrounding nature and I met many nice people from the area who worked there as well as the other volunteers from different countries and languages.
4 months ago
Xavier replied
Thank you Fiorella for coming we do appreciate to have you with us, have a good trip and we wish you all the best.
Jula
Germany
I recently volunteered at Xaviers Farm/the farm for 2 weeks. Mostly I took care of the animals, worked in the garden and sometimes in the farm(where we mostly cleaned and weighed ingredients). I liked, that the hours were flexible and we could mostly decide ourselves when to start/take a break. It is based on trust that you work your hours. We were provided 2 meals (mostly rice and vegetables) and for breakfast bread and oats. The accommodation wasn't luxury but totally fine. It is pretty remote and not that easy to get to Chiang Mai. All in all I had a good experience and met nice people!
6 months ago
Xavier replied
Thank you Jula for coming we do appreciate to have you with us, have a good trip and we wish you all the best.
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