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3 hectares have been developed as an agroforestry plantation, including 700 cacao trees intended for chocolate production, as well as other fruit trees to feed the sanctuary's animals, and Melipona bees for pollination.
We make our own chocolate.
25 hours of help per week
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Amount: € 160 Per week
Fee pays for: Materials for volunteer activities and Donation to project
Description: The Amazon is a special environment; when you arrive, everything is new... we must accompany you. The fees are used to compensate the people who accompany you and train you during your stay. Your fees are therefore intended to help us continue our associative activities and participate in the preservation of the Amazon.
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.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Fluent French or Fluent Spanish
Over 20 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
THE PLANTATION
- Sow seeds
- Prepare purins: Mexican flowers (minerals), ferns (when humid)
- Spray with purins or Biol
- Maintain the educational trail – Create signs for the plant species
- Maintain the chicken coop: place the droppings on the cacao trees, replace with dry leaves, rebuild clean nests, remove tall weeds
- Refresh the compost
- Harvest the cacao, and process it to obtain dried beans
- Carry out additional harvests: Sacha Inchi, chilimoya, guava, cardamom, Ishpingo (either to dry or for the refuge animals)
- Pruning: cut the pods that have monilia and witches' broom
- Expand the geese and ducks' pond
- Bioconstruction: Finish the chosa benches with clay/fiber/sand
- Seal the plantation holes with ERETRINA flowers
- Plant cycle crops: cassava, banana plant, papaya, passion fruit, chayote
- Milking our neighbors' cows
your activity time is 4 hours per day, Monday to Friday
Follow permaculture rules
