PARTENAIRE
Since 2019, Sol y Valle is a project based on the principles of Permaculture and Sustainability, let by a local and international community. More than half of the farm is a protected secondary forest with trees over 50 years old: a breat of fresh air in the heart of Costa Rica's deforested agricultural region. Other areas of the property include a bamboo forest for construction needs, a food forest with more than 100 fruit trees, organic gardens for self-consumption of a plant-based diet, a seed bank for seed-saving of local varieties, a biofactory in which we reproduce our own microorganisms, and several bioconstruction projects like a dry composting toilet.
We are a project managed by a community of young professionals, deeply committed to caring for the Earth. One of our main goals is to live as self-sustainably as possible, producing more crops than we can consume. We also want it to be a reference place so the local and global community can apply more environmentally and socially sustainabke strategies. We offer a volunteering and learning program of different lenghts and focuses. Additionally, we give educational tours, workshops, and various classes in permaculture, well-being and languages.
Currently, we are carrying out a fundraising campaing to create a space that will serve as a learning and post-harvesting center, with plans to start a construction around the beginning of 2025. Apart from this, as of 2024, we have been working on expanding the communal kithcen, starting wit a retaining wall with volcanic rock. Part of the roof and columns will be made with Guadua bamboo, harvested on this same land. We are in the process of bein certified Organic.
The Extra fee indicated covers a period of FOUR WEEKS, and includes:
- Transfer from the airport to a hostel in San Jose.
- Two nights in a hostel in San Jose, breakfast included.
- Orientation day, a day in which we give a cultural introduction to Costa Rica, safety and transportation recommendations, directions to the project and a tour of San Jose with lunch included.
- Accommodation and meals at the project.
The program has flexible dates depending on the availability of the project, with flexibility from 4 weeks to 6 months, but this includes an additional fee to the indicated fee.
gare la plus proche
Volunteers will be picked up from the airport.
Itinéraire vers le point de RDV
We'll meet the volunteer at the main exit of the airport.
Informations supplémentaires
- Interest in nature and agriculture.
- Willing to learn.
- Spanish or English skills.
- Open mind.
- Open to do manual work.
Not mandatory, but we are specially interested in the person having interest and skills in:
- Marketing and social media
- Identification, mapping, and inventory of tropical species in our secondary forest
- Carpentry, construction or bioconstruction.
Remarques
The project has the conditions to accept adult participants, this means, over 18 years old.