Our Mission - Nuestra Mision

Our Mission

Our Family Farm Hostel, on the rural/urban fringe of Buenos Aires city, is part of the Wellbeing Organic Network, www.wonfamily.net, and is affiliated with the River Lujan Basin Smallholders Association. At Family Farm Hostel we are focused on developing sustainable family-based lifestyles by providing our guests with a rich environment to enjoy nature, learn languages, exchange cultures and experience sustainable living through “ecovoluntourism”. In an educative home-away homestay experience, we cooperate to form examples of sustainable living by building natural constructions, keeping animals for dairy and draught power, cultivating the land organically and eating tasty healthy home-grown food. In an environment conducive to learning and experiencing new (and old) ways of living, we offer a Spanish/English Language School and a Sustainability School with people highly qualified in languages, natural construction methods, agro-ecology and permaculture. By choosing an ecotourist, ecovolunteer or language or sustainability student option, you choose how many hours you’d like to help out around the farm and what courses and activities you’d like to do. Regardless of how much you contribute, you will have the opportunity to share your ideas to better the project.

Nuestra Misión

Nuestro Hostal Rural Familiar esta basado en el desarrollo de comunidades sustentables centrados en la familia, o grupos familiares. Estamos afiliados con Los Pequeños Agriculturas Familiares de la Cuenca del Rio de Lujan y el Red Orgánica del Bienestar. En nuestro Hostal Rural Familiar, estamos interesados en dar a todos nuestros huéspedes la posibilidad de gozar de la naturaleza, aprender idiomas, intercambiar culturas y experimentar la vida sustentable a través del ecovoluntarismo. Vivimos juntos y cooperamos en cultivar la tierra, construir con adobe y materiales naturales locales y practicar la vida sustentable. Intentamos crecer orgánicamente a movernos hacia la autosuficiencia y a formar una Academia de Idiomas y Sustentabilidad. Nuestros huéspedes eligen ser principalmente turistas, voluntarios o alumnos de idiomas o la sustentabilidad en elegir cuantas horas de ayuda quieren hacer y que tipos de cursos o actividades. No importa con cuanto contribuyes, tendrás la oportunidad de compartir tus ideas para hacer este proyecto mejor.

Monday 11 July 2011

Futbol

Today we organized the yard, collecting wood and raking the leaves to place over the land. We were about to start a fire pit when a bunch of children came from the neighborhood and started playing futbol (soccer) with our goals. We ended up playing for almost two hours. A few other people joined us and left in between the game, and some of the older kids started tripping on these tiny ones. This just goes to show how tight this community is.
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