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We are a family-run eco-farm and newly registered nonprofit organization , located in beautiful Loei, Thailand. What started as a small garden-to-table family farm has now grown into a much larger mission: to build a community-based learning and growing space focused on sustainability, creativity, and compassion.
Our work combines organic farming (mushrooms, cacao, herbs, and more), tree planting, supporting elderly workers and children from low-income backgrounds, and crafting meaningful experiences for both locals and international volunteers.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: caring, creativity, kindness, and connection. We warmly welcome our guests as part of our extended family and hope they will embrace these values, showing respect and appreciation for this community, the people of Thailand, and all living beings.
We believe that everyone has unique gifts and talents to share, and we look forward to seeing how yours can contribute to this special space. For you, our home will be “Sabai Jai”—a place of happiness, peace, and freedom of mind.
When you write to us please include your name, where you are from, dates you can come to us, and why this project impacted you or why your heart is calling you to us. We respect you and we ask you to respect us in sharing a bit about yourself and your why
What we are looking for in you
- Self motivated
- Great can do attitude and open heart (and mind)
- Works well with others and can self-manage tasks happily
- A peaceful, respectful outlook on life
- Openness to communicating without words sometimes (we are so lucky to have a tight knit community of neighbors and local grandma's who come to help us in many different areas, most are not fluent in English, but are fluent in smiles and energy, they appreciate your heart-led communications a lot)
- An openness to learn about our ways of life and culture (there can be as many learning and growing opportunities for you as you choose here)
- a belief in helping each other and building each other up, (we work together for the greater good of all, not to compete)
- Clear, respectful communication
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
Farmstay help
Interests
Books
Self development
Sustainability
Farming
Charity work
Languages
Gardening
Cooking & food
Nature
Yoga / Wellness
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learn how to grow and process cacao, mushrooms, herbs, and fruit.
Join us in creating a food forest (coconut, cacao, coffee trees).
Get to know our local grandmas—help them sell produce, craft broomsticks, and more.
Support children from landfill communities with creative learning and language exchange.
Experience true Thai rural life with lots of laughter, cooking together, sharing stories, and making a real impact
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
For July - August we’re looking for dedicated volunteers to support us in these areas:
-We need cacao content creators and creative thinkilers to action and put together some exciting new info graphics (posters, and visuals aids, static content and reels) to continue the momentum of our cacao journey- farmers to chocolate bars, and all the true magic in between!
- We want you to hear our stories, meet our local farmers, learn the cacao tree to chocolate bar process and get connected to action with us.
- Are you ready to uplift and amplify the voices of our local farmers, artisans and craftspeople?
-One of our goals is to bridge the gap between local thailand cacao farmers to local craft chocolate makers in different regions of Thailand, we invite you to join us on thus exciting journey to make that a reality, through your gifts of content creation!
- Are you a practical and creative thinker?
- Do you have social media content creation skills?
- Do you know your way around Canva, And other content creation & editing tools?
- Can you create a simple, impactful, visually pleasing poster that weaves together our cacao farmers and raises their voices?
- If your heart is feeling called to get your feet on the ground and get involved in something true and real, please do write to us and come to immerse yourself in our abundant world!
- Content creation experience (or a willingness to give it a go and let your creativity fly)
Other Ongoing Projects (optional & seasonal):
Gardening: herbs, fruit, vegetables, permaculture
Mushroom farm: harvesting, sorting, composting
Cacao processing: fermentation, drying, DIY experiments
Potting soil & compost: using organic waste
Tree planting: coconut, coffee, cacao
Earth oven cooking & food experiments
Working alongside elderly people for their activities (bamboo craft, broom making), natural dye & weaving
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Khmer: Fluent
Lao: Fluent
Thai: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
We speak Thai, Lao, Cambodian and English and love to learn more about others language and cultures.
Accommodation
Accommodations:
At the cacao's farm, there is a large 3 partitioned dorm, fitting 2-4 beds in each room and 2 outdoor shared toilets.
At the mushroom farm, we have 4 rooms: 2 single bedroom in 2 bamboo huts and 2 queen size bedrooms in the wooden house. Both accommodations have a shared bathroom with warm shower.
Meals:
In our place we mostly eat vegetarian food and always have some fruits from the garden. Feel free to pick fruits and vegetables from our garden, which you will be helping us to take care of.
At the cacao farm, you will have a large kitchen and at the mushroom farm there is a little kitchenette, which you will share with other volunteers.
We do provide basic food such as rice and fruit and you will be responsible for your own food and your own cooking. We encourage our volunteer to share, swop and shop with the locals.
What else ...
Transportation to Loei Province:
Loei is in the North East Thailand and the following is the approximation of distance from other major providences (in kilometers)
- Bangkok to Loei - 560 km. You can get to Loei from BKK by plan and buses:
*** By plane, flight depart from Don Muang airport, BKK-Loei airport. There are 2 flights/day operated by Air Asia at 9.55 am and 16.10 pm. It costs about 1200-3000 baht, depending on your booking agent.
*** By buses, day and night buses leave from Morchit bus terminal 2. There are a few companies to choose from e.g. Air Muang Loei, Sun bus, Phukraduang Air. Bus fare is from 550-750 baht, takes 9-10 hours.
- Chaingmai to Loei - 480 km. You can get to Loei from Chaingmai by bus, cost 570-600 baht, takes 9-10 hours
-Udonthani to Loei - 180 km. You can get to Loei from Udonthani by bus, costs 110-120 baht, takes 3-4 hours
-Khonkean to Loei- 260 km. You can get to Loei from Khonkean by bus, costs 150-160 baht, takes 4-5 hours
If you want to come to Loei from Laos, you can depart from 2 cities:
-Luangprabang (in Loas) to Loei - 400 kmi. You can get inter-country bus Lungprabang-Loei. The bus leaves daily from Luang Prabang at 8 am, cost about 700 baht.
-Vientiane (in Loas) once you cross the border, you will get to Nong kai province in Thailand.. Nongkai is about 200 km from Loei. However, there is no direct bus from Nongkai to Loei, so you will have to to take Nongkai - Udonthani, and then Udonthani-Loei.
Our mushroom farm is 15 km from Loei city and our cacao farm is 10 km Loei city. We will send you more detail of how to get us once your confirm your booking.
GRAB taxi to cacao farm is about 100-120 baht (it's 10 km from the city, 3 km to the nearest village) and to mushroom farm is about 180-200 baht (it's about 15 km from city, 1 km to the village).
A blue bus known as (Loei-Chaingkhan) bus costs about 20-40 baht one way to mushroom farm.
Near by:
Local outdoor food markets. Yoga Studio, Local Restaurants.
Chaingkhan local touristic District with great choices of food, accommodations and view of Mekong river
At least, 4 National parks and Phuluang wild life sanctuary (Phusansai-Naheaw District, (Phurea-Phurea District ) , Phukradeng-Phukadeng District), (Phupaman- in Loei/Khonkean Area).
Thai-Lao's cities e.g. Vientiane and Luang Prabang, Laos
House Rules:
To live in peace with each other and prevent misunderstandings, I’d like you to consider some simple rules:
• LAUNDRY: you can wash your clothes by hands using a basket.
• CLEANING: keep your room and living spaces clean and organized
• SUSTAINABILITY: please don’t waste water and electricity, e.g. turn off the tap while brushing your teeth and turn off the lights anytime you live a room, separate recyclable organic waste from other garbage
• DRESSING: please dress properly according environment e.g. making compost in the temple
• NO SMOKING, NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL
• Smile and Hi be friendly and Kind :)
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Help is needed 4 hours per day, community work is mostly on the weekend. You need to have your own connection, you can buy a Thai sim with reliable internet (10-20$ per month).
Space for parking camper vans
We have space enough for 2 campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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My tasks include weeding at the farm, drying the butterfly pea flowers, moringa, mulberry and mexican kale leaves and then grind them into powders. Other than that, I also involved… read more
The farm itself is beautiful and the… read more
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My tasks include weeding at the farm, drying the butterfly pea flowers, moringa, mulberry and mexican kale leaves and then grind them into powders. Other than that, I also involved… read more
The farm itself is beautiful and the… read more
I would like to thank you both for an unforgettable three weeks that I spent with you guys! The work itself was sort of in between tasks with the mushroom business between crops and the beginning of the cacao plantation coming up meant that I worked on lots of different things. I helped others with their personal projects and… read more
Life on the farm was both… read more
Moreover, they were incredibly kind and taught us so much—not only about the local culture but also valuable lessons that we will… read more
Manee is very active and has a lot of ideas and projects that we got to participate in: We helped clean at a local temple, harvested mushrooms and started helping renewing the system for the them,… read more
We spent ten amazing days here with manee and pinoy. They both have perfect English and make you feel like their home is your home. The accomodation is also really nice - clean, nice beds and your own room. We are a couple and we stayed here with a friend of ours and another workawayer and we all loved it so much.… read more
Lumi connected so well with the local people and embraced each day with an open heart, appreciating whatever it brought. Her positive attitude is truly contagious and brightens up the atmosphere… read more
During my short stay there I experienced so much, picking mushrooms, collecting bamboo, making compost, making pizza, tasting wine, learning about plants, making… read more
One of my favorite parts of the stay was contributing to local ecological projects. For example, we helped… read more
