We are looking for people who bring practical life experience in farming, gardening, building (working with wood, metal, concrete), or in creative/garden-based cooking. If you enjoy taking responsibility, working independently, and sharing your skills with others, we'd love to hear from you!
Please note that our minimum stay is 4 weeks.
👩🌾👨🌾 CURRENT WORK WE NEED HELP WITH
Working below the trees! Removing wild herbs, placing cardboard to eliminate grass and plant the plants witch serve the trees in a permaculture way, such as sweet potato, tagetis, and other plants to create a horizontal ecosystem and diversity.
Also with processing fruits from our current harvest.
👋 ABOUT US
Hi, my name is Benjamin. Since July 2022, I have been renting a mango finca on the island of La Palma. Around one hectare of the land is cultivated with mango trees, while the rest of the finca is slowly evolving into a place focused on self-sufficiency, permaculture, and mindful living.
Rolf, who bought the finca more than 30 years ago and is the owner of the finca, lives here as well and enjoys sharing his knowledge about medicinal plants and growing plants from seeds.
With the help of WWOOF volunteers, we started to bring the finca into a new era. It began with one person and now it has gradually grown into a shared living space where up to 17 people can live together and contribute to the project. What over centuries just has been an agricultural farm, has become a meaningful place where people come to enjoy themselves and connect with others.
🌱 OUR VISION
To fully appreciate the fruit and the tree and to make complete use of them — nothing should go to waste.
The work carried out here is understood as a reflection of one’s own consciousness: how we treat the tree, the soil, and what we consider waste also reveals something about how we treat ourselves and others.
From this understanding, the intention is to create a place of healing where each individual’s consciousness is brought to the forefront, and where mindfulness is directed toward wherever it is needed most in the present moment.
🔨 THE PROJECT
Over the last years, many different areas of the finca have been developed together with WWOOF volunteers. We created gardens, communal spaces, accommodation options, outdoor showers, compost toilets, and different working structures that support daily life on the finca.
At the moment, there are several working areas such as gardening, building, kitchen and social media. Depending on the season, the focus of the work changes.
The finca is still developing and growing continuously. There are several larger projects planned for the future, including the transformation of an existing garage into a properly approved production kitchen for processing our finca products, the construction of an outdoor kitchen, and the further cultivation and design of the currently unused areas of the land.
We are happy about people who would like to become part of this ongoing process for a while and contribute with their own energy, ideas, and skills.
📄 IMPORTANT
If you feel connected to this project and would like to become part of it for a while, please carefully read the attached document before applying. It contains all important information about daily life, responsibilities, routines, and the general way of living on the finca.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r9Nun09bN9rDkqKZSWVQs5NYCHVkyvyMRq-VGFRp1L8
If you feel comfortable with everything described there, we are happy to receive your application.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Methods or systems
Biological pest control
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Production farm
Certified organic
2
Hectares
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4.9
Acres
