Permaculture farm in Cartago

Name: Permaculture farm in Cartago
Start: 2025-08-05
End: 2025-11-21
Location: Costa Rica

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Costa Rica Farming Environment Farming Environment +1 Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

We are a community of four young professionals co-creating a more sustainable lifestyle in harmony with nature. Finca Sol y
Valle is a 1.5 hectare permaculture farm which was started 5 years ago. More than half of the farm is protected secondary forest with 50+ year-old trees -a regenerative model contrasting in the heart
of Costa Rica’s deforested agricultural region. The propety includes a bamboo forest with 100 fruit trees, extensive organic
gardens for personal consumption, and several natural buildings. The project serves as a chemical-based farms nearby.
We host people who are willing to learn more about sustainability and permaculture practices. This includes organic agroforestry,
vegetable garnening, bio-fertilizer preparation, harvesting, produce processing and fermenting, and new bioconstruction projects. We also rotate roles such as cooking and cleaning every week, and everyone is involved in common area tasks! We normaly
gather together for out weekly wellness activity which we decide collectively.

The farm also administrates a homestay program at houses with local in the towns of La Flor / El Yas. There are a total of 7 houses and 10 spaces at this time.

Once in a while, we organize glass recycling, tree planting, and community cleaning with the local Ecological Group La Flor.

💼 What the programme involves

Main tasks:
- Disconnect from a rushed lifestyle and get into a more natural pace.
- Wake up with nature’s orchestra of sounds.
- Come to the kitchen and join a breakfast made-with-love.
- Daily, we all learn from the process of nature. From the seed to the plants. The process of planting, taking care of, harvesting and eating.

At the edible forest, we see a slower process of fruit trees growing. We planted them all within the last 3 years and many are now 2-3 meters tall. In the rest of the secondary forest, we are able to witness magnificent older trees like ficus, cedro nogal, targuá, and so much more.
Depending on the current project, we’ll harvest large guadua bamboo canes, and fully process them to build with later. The following projects are made from bamboo: the greenhouse,
composting center, recycling center, composting toilet/shower, and the tepee. In the tepee we make camp fires, music jamming and ceremonies like cacao and men or women circles.
Afternoons are free time for volunteers to relax, read a book, write, take a walk, socialize with the community, or whatever they enjoy.
We go to bed early, 9-10pm, and have a well-deserved rest.
Weekends are also free time. Time are many nearby local attractions for volunteers to visit like the Irazú Volcano, Guayabo Archeological National Monument, or even the Organic Markets.
Wellbeing practices like meditation and exercise are important to us.

Work
schedule:

Our Monday-Friday is:
06:00 am - 08:30 am - Farm tasks
08:30 am - 09:30 am - Breakfast
09:30 am - 12:30 am - Farm tasks
12:30 pm - Lunch
Afternoons: free time, home tasks such as cleaning, homemade bread, kamucha or water kefir, once a week a wellness activity.
Weekends: free time.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will stay at the Project in a shared room.

🎒 Leisure activities

We’re flexible with the volunteer’s time out of the farm. As community, we normally have our vacations on December - January holidays, for about 2 weeks, but we also take days off
during the year.
For Long-Term Volunteers: 2 days off per
month of program.
For Short-Term Volunteers: negotiable depending on the duration of the program.

⚠️ Requirements

We prefer people who understand they are coming in touch with nature and biodiversity everywhere. Be prepared to see beautiful birds in the sky, as well as spiders, scorpions, lots of
bugs, and possible a snake.
It’s important that the person has at least a basic knowledge in cooking and is open to cooking for others.
Interest: co-living in community, bioconstruction, DIY, organic agriculture, ecology.
Intermediate English level.

🤝 Meeting point

The volunteers will be picked up at the Airport.

ℹ️ Additional information

The Extra Fee indicated covers a period of 2 WEEKS, and includes

- Transfer from the airport to the host family
- Orientation day, a day in which we give a cultural introduction to Costa Rica, safty and transportation recommendations, directions to the project and a tour of San Jose with lunch included
- Accomodation and meals in the host family

The program has flexible dates depending on the availability of the project, with flexibility from 2 weeks to 5 month, but this includes an additional fee to the indicated fee.

Total per 4 weeks : $800 USD

Each Additional week: $138 USD

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