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.

Thursday 14 July 2011

The Hobbit Hole gets cozier every day. My project has been to install cane dividers for each Hobbit Hole. That work is actually quite fun—I go to the bamboo grove and cut down what stalks I need, and then shorten them to size at the farm. To install them I just hammer in two nails on either end, and then after maybe 50 poles, I’ve made a beautiful wall. The canes really do add a nice accent to the Hobbit House, with a mix of earth and greenery.




I had a random idea to make a sign for the World Café out of the leftover bamboo canes. After a lot of experimentation with strings and all different sizes of bamboo sticks, this was the final product. I tried painting the letters on, but that was a disaster. Thanks to the wonderful insight of Ian, we finally decided to use bamboo to make the letters. I learned what “glue” was in Spanish when Sol gave us a tube of silicon to glue down the letters.



So as I’m doing this, Ian is continuing to structuralize the Hobbit House. I gave him my aviators so he could be safe and fashionable as he works.


And this is Bijay. <3 The two oxen plowed the field the other day. It’s a shame I wasn’t there to take photos. More to come. They’re playing futbol at night now.



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