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We’re reforesting 4 hectares of former cattle pasture and coffee/cacao plantations to create a more diverse and sustainable food forest. Help us plant native and exotic fruit trees, flowers, herbs, and other plants, while removing vegetation that doesn’t belong in the project. It’s a hands-on opportunity to support biodiversity, sustainable food production, and the restoration of degraded Amazonian land. 🌿🍃
12 hours of help per week
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
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
Beginner Spanish or Beginner English
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Our main priorities are planting fruit trees and managing the invasive or competitive vegetation. Our goal is to create a high-density, biodiverse organic food forest focusing on tropical fruit, nature-based living, natural building, environmental conservation, and knowledge sharing. We live and create in a very simple way, connecting and working with the natural environment and minimizing our reliance on outside resources.
The land is producing a variety of fruit, herbs, and other edible or usable plants, which we share with volunteers as they are available There are usually bananas, plantains, sugar cane, limes, and several different herbs, and occasionally some other tropical fruits and foods to enjoy.
During down time we like to enjoy the nature around us, have interesting discussions, and play music. There is a guitar and some homemade instruments for jams and sing-alongs.
This work involves creating space for planting by removing grass or other vegetation, digging holes, planting the trees, and adding mulch or some beneficial biomass around the newly planted trees
We also plant a ground cover crop called Pinto Peanut (or Perennial Peanut), which outcompetes grass, fixes nitrogen into the soil, attracts pollinators, and looks beautiful.
Other tasks include weeding, chopping grass with a machete, and other odd jobs. There are also a variety of other garden and home care projects like environmental cleanup, general maintenance, repairs, or improvements as needed, preparing food, cleaning etc to add some variety.
Volunteers here enjoy a work hard/chill hard environment, You can spend a few hours a day getting your workout in the garden and then enjoy the rest of the day at the river, hanging out in a hammock or doing whatever you like.
On this land we don’t use animals for any purpose (including keeping them as pets, or eating them or anything they make), smoke cigarettes, use chemicals, or bring unnecessary trash on the land.
You don’t need to be vegan or vegetarian to stay here, but no food or products made from an animal should be brought or consumed here (like meat, fish, milk, butter, cheese, cream, eggs, honey, etc).
Chemical soaps, shampoos, cosmetics, toothpastes, etc should also not be used here as we strive to live as naturally as possible and keep the land as free of toxins as possible for all of our health.
