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bioconstruccion - eco building

The experience

eco-construction with natural materials:
stone, wood, earth, sand, clay, pumice, lime, straw, re-used bottles...
This is part of a future eco-village.

bioconstrucción con materiales naturales:
piedra, madera, tierra, arena, arcilla, tezontle, cal, paja, botellas re-usadas...
El proyecto forma parte de una futura eco-aldea.
Contacto posible también en Español :-)

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

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

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

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 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.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Intermediate Spanish or Intermediate English

Between 20 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

ESP: redactamos en Inglés por los viajeros de todo el planeta, puedes por supuesto usar tu traductor.

You will learn theory and will practice enough to be able to claim an intermediate level in permaculture and/or eco-building.

We expect to welcome serious people (not here for a cheap vacation in Mexico) who have a personal project lined to the above.

We experiment also to reach food autonomy, in case of a possible crisis.

We also provide personal development opportunities, natural medicines, digital detox, yoga, etc...

Activities & Shift

Usually...

- work starts at 7h30, ends at 13h00 with a 20 minutes break around 10 to 10h30.
- breakfast from 6h40 to 7h25 (sunrise is around 7)
- lunch around 13
- dinner around 19 (sunset is around 19h15)

We all help with cooking and cleaning.

We enjoy 2 days off after 5 days of work

If you want to spend days off with us, we avoid Saturdays and Sundays when going to the Pacific (too crowdy).

We sometimes go swimming in a nearby river.

Rules

PLEASE:

No Drugs!
No smoking during dry season... and only in specific places during the wet season.

Moderate alcohol consumption may happen at the end of some work days when host offers. No solo drinking.

For obvious reasons, you commit to follow safety recommendations about animals and environment and use work protection equipment we provide.

This is a ranch, not a beach, so we recommend having hat, closed shoes, long sleeves pants and shirts. We can lend you some work clothes (gifts from previous visitors).

The village is at 25 minutes, walking. There are busses to the 400,000 inhabitants nearby city of Colima or to Guadalajara.

Please inform us when planning to leave the ranch and probable return time.

Talk openly if something is not clear or if you feel uncomfortable with tasks or other things.

If you cannot stand turning off your social media or messaging during work time, ¡please do not apply! ... again: please do NOT apply.

If you have a relative in hospital or other possible critical situation, we will provide you with a ranch phone number and will inform you right away.

For your personal music, please use your headphones. We like to enjoy the songs of the birds, the wind in the trees, the call of the coyotes at night.

Best if you have a sleeping bag or sheets. We pay laundry for your working clothes.

This being said, we like to laugh, swim in the pond, make bonfires, play board games, forage for wild food, walk around the volcano. We have a good sense of humor and many books (you know, these are large texts/SMS printed on paper :-).