🌱 Hands to the Earth & Community Art in Tenerife | Garden, Bioconstruction and Culture
The experience
In Barranco Achacay (Tenerife), volunteering serves to create a protected space for the conservation of local nature, based on respect for the environment and the connection with this corner of the island.
Activities:
1. Territorial Care (Flora and Landscape)
2. Garden and Bioconstruction
3. Community, Culture and Art
"WHEN YOU CULTIVATE OUTSIDE, YOU DO IT INSIDE TOO" - RICARDO ROZZI
What you offer
4 hours of help per day
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Cooking:
Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
Teaching Languages:
Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.
What you get
2 days off per week
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.
Lunch:
You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Requirements
Beginner Spanish or Beginner English
Between 22 and 50 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
The activity is primarily in the morning hours. It lasts up to two weeks, organized in shifts focused on bio-construction, gardening, and artistic activities.
Activities & Shift
1. Land, flora and garden care 🌿
Creation and maintenance of gardens with native flora and development of a garden oriented toward food sovereignty. Tasks include delimiting plots, preparing the soil with manure, making seedbeds, planting and irrigating, in addition to the general care of the natural surroundings.
2. Bioconstruction 🪨
Construction and improvement of spaces using a mix of traditional Canarian techniques (stonework and clay from the old master stonemasons) with more contemporary solutions based on wood, cane, clay and lightweight structures, creating functional, creative spaces in harmony with the surroundings.
3. Community, Culture and Art 🎨
Support in organizing cultural and artistic activities on the farm, help in meal preparation, space management and multilingual communication to welcome participants and the public.
Rules
1. Sincerity in the decision
Come with an honest intention to connect with the space, the people and to be in tune with what is proposed. It is not a vacation place, but a space of presence, care and coexistence.
2. Respect and non-judgment
Live in the space without judgments, with respect for the surroundings and for other people.
Respect the rhythms of each person.
3. Willingness
Participate with openness and willingness to collaborate, share and be part of the experience.
4. Cleanliness and Order