Join our community, permaculture project on an almond farm in Lorca, Spain

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  Description

  🌱 We’re urgently looking for passionate gardeners to care for and develop our vegetable garden and tree nursery on our land in Southern Spain! If you love working with plants, vegetables, and permaculture principles — this could be for you. 🌿 More details below!
  
  
  
  📌 Please read this text carefully and in full before getting in touch with us.
  
  We want to honestly, openly, and transparently share with you who we are, what we wish for — and what you can expect here.
  
  🌿 Who we are
  
  We are Michi, Karen, Enki (3 years old), Bas, and Nic — the heart of a small, growing community on an old almond plantation with 50 hectares of land in the beautiful south of Spain. For more than three years, we’ve been shaping this place step by step into a space that reconnects nature, people, and community — restoring balance with nature and promoting diversity for both humans and the environment.
  
  Alongside us, there are volunteers and day visitors. Some stay for two to three weeks, others for several months and become a temporary part of our community. All options are possible — and welcome — though they come with a few criteria (see below).
  
  Our daily life is lively, honest, nature-connected, and sometimes demanding. From the experience of over 250 volunteers, we’ve learned what this place needs, what it stands for, how we want to live together here (especially in the long term), and what it takes to make this vision a reality.
  
  🌱 Our Vision & Values
  
  This place is meant to be a space where:
  
  - Nature and people come into harmony and connection
  
  - People live honestly, respectfully, and openly with each other
  
  - A culture of nonviolent, appreciative feedback is lived
  
  - Open, authentic, and clear togetherness is everyday life
  
  - Everyone takes responsibility for themselves, the community, and nature
  
  - Life is celebrated — with depth, ease, and real encounters
  
  Our values are not just nice words but part of our daily reality:
  
  ✨ Open and honest communication
  → Everything can be said here. Joy, doubts, anger, sadness — everything has space. We believe everything becomes solvable when we stay in contact.
  
  ✨ Responsibility & Co-Creation
  → Everyone gets involved: cooking, building, gardening, childcare, tidying up, brainstorming ideas. We’re not looking for consumers, but for co-creators.
  
  ✨ Healthy, vegan food
  → We cook fresh, vegan, and healthy meals daily. Everyone helps, and we enjoy eating together.
  
  ✨ Yoga, mindfulness & sharing emotions
  → There's an open invitation to daily yoga, weekly heart-sharing circles, and daily check-ins at breakfast so we know how we’re all doing and stay in honest contact.
  
  ✨ Depth and Lightness
  → We love sitting by the fire, making music, dancing, singing, doing physical work, crying, laughing, and being real with each other. We exchange thoughts about life. And yes — conflicts are part of it too. We don’t aim for a perfect world but an honest, conscious togetherness where we stay connected.
  
  ✨ Sustainability & Connection to Nature
  → Permaculture, recycling, rainwater harvesting, solar systems. We strive to give more back than we take.
  
  ✨ Inspiration for others
  → We want to inspire and encourage people and create a place that connects, inspires, and strengthens awareness for living in harmony with nature.
  
  📌 What to expect here
  
  👉 Daily tasks: gardening, cooking, cleaning, construction projects, space design, childcare, contributing creative ideas
  👉 Daily yoga and weekly sharing circles
  👉 Vegan, healthy food
  👉 Time in nature, campfires, trips to the sea, spontaneous music and dance evenings
  👉 Conscious process work in the form of breathwork, bodywork, and similar experiences
  👉 An honest, conscious community lifestyle
  
  Current projects:
  
  - Expanding and maintaining the garden
  
  - Developing and planting the pool area
  
  - Caring for and planting in the tree nursery
  
  - Creative beautification of the place
  
  - Helping with crowdfunding to financially support the project
  
  - Supporting promotion of the space for potential co-livers (people wanting to live and work here)
  
  - General promotion of the place (especially for retreats)
  
  - Repair work of all kinds
  
  Whether for two, three weeks or longer — here you have the opportunity to be part of a living community, discover new skills, and get to know yourself better through connection with others.
  
  📌 Who we’re (currently) not looking for
  
  ❌ People looking for a retreat during personal crises
  ❌ People unwilling to actively and responsibly get involved
  ❌ People expecting others to carry their personal processes or be responsible for their well-being
  ❌ People who see community as a "holiday feeling" rather than active co-creation
  ❌ People with more question marks than ideas in their current life situation
  
  
  
  
  
  📌 LONG TERM LIVING
  
  We regularly receive inquiries from people imagining living here long-term. We truly appreciate this vision and the recognition of our community and this place — and at the same time want to state clearly:
  
  👉 Real community takes time.
  We’re not looking for someone who assumes after two weeks that they’ll be "moving in" or can immediately build their own space. It’s about honestly and authentically getting to know each other in everyday life — with all its highs and lows. Seeing how we truly live and work together. How we handle conflicts, grow together, and build a stable, reliable coexistence.
  
  Long-term steps and plans arise here from genuine relationships, shared experiences, and trust that grows over months.
  
  If you're interested in living here long-term, we ask for a minimum stay of 6 months to really get to know each other and then see together what a long-term life here could look like.
  
  For this, we’re specifically looking for you if you…
  
  ✅ Know what you want in life and have a clear sense of how you want to shape your life
  ✅ Bring clear skills and experiences you want to contribute to a community
  ✅ Have gathered life experience and take responsibility for your own themes and processes, and know how to support yourself
  ✅ Have a clear feeling for how you want to live in community
  ✅ Are financially, emotionally, and relationally (whether single or in a relationship) stable and grounded — or are honestly and consciously on that path
  
  📌 Who we’re (currently) not looking for (see above)
  
  
  
  
  📬When you want to be part of this project (long or short term), please answer the following messages in your text to us:
  
  
  If you recognize yourself in what we’ve described here and genuinely feel excited about staying here for a while — or maybe a longer part of your life — we’d love for you to write us a message answering the following questions:
  
  1. Why do you want to come to us specifically?
  What draws you to our place, our values, and our lifestyle? What do you expect from your time here — and what are you ready to give?
  
  2. What skills and experiences do you bring that you’d like to contribute to a community?
  Tell us about what makes you who you are — whether it’s craftsmanship, gardening, creativity, organization, or interpersonal qualities.
  
  3. How do you handle conflicts and challenging moments in communal life?
  Feel free to share an example from your life when you experienced and resolved a difficult situation in a group or community.
  
  4. Where are you in your life right now — internally and externally?
  What have you already sorted out for yourself, what moves you at the moment, and what values and visions guide you on your path?
  
  Please only get in touch if you’ve read the entire text and genuinely feel comfortable with our values and framework.
  
  We look forward to meeting openhearted, kind people — whether for a few weeks or maybe much longer. 🌿✨
  
  With love,
  Michi, Karen, Enki, Bas & Nic

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Interests

  

  Farming

  

  Van life

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Sustainability

  

  Pets

  

  Events & social

  

  Culture

  

  Writing

  

  Performing arts

  

  Plant care

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Art & design

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Gardening

  

  Photography

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  Animals

  

  Dancing

  

  Hiking

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Nature

  

  LGBTQ
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  🌿 Discover the art of cooking nourishing, organic, vegan and gluten-free meals — made with love and ingredients from our land.
  
  🌱 Dive into the world of permaculture and regenerative living — from gardening and composting to creative eco-projects and nature-based building.
  
  🧘 Experience a wide range of healing practices like daily yoga, meditation, sound healing, breathwork and nature rituals under the open sky.
  
  🌍 Learn how to live more consciously and sustainably — and how to be part of positive change in your own life and in the world.
  
  ❤️ Co-live with wonderful people from around the world — sharing stories, emotions, dreams and everyday moments that turn strangers into family.
  
  🗣️ Practice open, honest communication and emotional presence — growing together, learning from each other and supporting one another’s inner journeys.
  
  Every day here is a chance to learn, to slow down, to reconnect — and to remember what really matters.

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  Au Pair Help

  Further details can be found here

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  🌱 Urgently looking for garden & permaculture enthusiasts for our vegetable garden in Southern Spain! 🌱
  
  On our 50-hectare piece of land in Southern Spain, we’ve created a beautiful vegetable garden based on permaculture principles. The garden already has established beds, a variety of vegetables growing, and a small tree nursery with young trees.
  
  What we’re urgently looking for now is one or more people to lovingly and carefully continue taking care of this space — maintaining, expanding, and bringing in their own ideas and creativity.
  
  Your tasks could include:
  
  - Taking care of existing vegetable beds: weeding, mulching, watering
  
  - Harvesting and replanting vegetables
  
  - Raising seedlings and planting them out
  
  - Maintaining and improving compost areas
  
  - Designing new plant beds or optimizing existing ones
  
  - Watering and caring for young trees, and raising new ones in our tree nursery
  
  - Developing and creating new permaculture elements and ideas
  
  We’ve been taking care of the garden ourselves for a while, but our capacity is currently stretched. This garden now needs someone (or several people) to give it the loving attention it deserves and help it thrive.
  
  If you have experience in organic gardening, permaculture design, or simply a deep passion for working with nature — we’d love to hear from you!
  
  There’s plenty of room here for creative ideas and for you to work closely with nature, learn, and help us build something meaningful. 🌿✨
  
  
  Other tasks:
  
  ✨ Loving babysitters who enjoy spending time with little Enki, playing, exploring nature, and giving his parents a few quiet moments.
  
  🌱 Permaculture enthusiasts and garden lovers who want to get their hands in the soil and help us grow food, trees, and a thriving ecosystem.
  
  🔨 Hands for small projects, maintenance help
  
  🎨 Creative souls who’d love to beautify our land — through art, natural decoration, murals, signs, cozy corners, or whatever magic you’d like to bring.
  
  🍲 People who love cooking and creating nourishing, plant-based meals to share around the table, turning every meal into a gathering.
  
  And most of all: open-hearted humans who value connection, honesty, and community life.
  
  If you recognize yourself in any of this — or you bring something else special you think belongs here — we’d love to hear from you!

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  Languages spoken

  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent

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  Accommodation

  🏡 We offer beautiful, cozy rooms surrounded by pure nature:
  
  ✨ Shared rooms — sometimes you’ll share a room, but there is also often single rooms available. Depending on the season
  
  ✨ Private rooms — available occasionally, depending on the season and how full the house is.
  
  All rooms are simple, warm, and filled with light — with stunning views, fresh air, and the peaceful sound of nature all around.

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  What else ...

  What’s Included in Every Volunteer Stay
  
  🏡 Cozy accommodation in a private or shared room, surrounded by peaceful nature
  
  🍲 Two delicious, plant-based meals a day, plus fresh fruits and healthy snacks in the afternoon
  
  🌞 Daily morning practices to nourish body and soul — like yoga, guided meditations and heart-sharing circles
  
  🎶 Weekly community events you’ll never forget: from ecstatic dances and cacao ceremonies to jam sessions under the stars and group adventures into nature
  
  📶 Fast internet connection in the main house — so you can stay connected when needed, and disconnect when you want

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  We have Starlink and very good Internet access

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have more than enough space for camper vans

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We are happy to welcome you if you're traveling with your dog(s)

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

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