I came back after 2 weeks of travelling around South America, and, honestly, I missed my farm family the whole time. When I came back Sol cradled me in her arms as if I were her own child. I was sick from crossing through 6 countries in two weeks, but they took care of me and made sure that my health improved.
The Hobbit House is so cute! It now has very polite-looking decking, flowers at the base of the front door, and clean windows. The air of the place is warmer every day. If I had the option, I wouldn´t mind living in the Hobbit House.
We recently added a sun to the Hostel. (Pictures will go up soon.) A plastered sun made of earth and other natural materials. The spirit of the sun. It looks like a lotus flower, the earth, a pregnant lady's belly, an eye, and a spiritual sun all at once. And what was amazing is that it created itself from our own hands. The inspiration to make a sun in the Hobbit House came suddenly, and Ian and I set to work on it in silence. We both knew what to do, and within an hour we had transformed a pile of dirt into a brilliant sun shining in the Hobbit House. In the end we blew colored spices from our hands to color the rays and the center.
We also fixed the fence leading into the house. Ian made the small pedestrian gate workable again, and then we both made a little roof on top. Using recycled wood, we made a quiant little pointed roof on top of the gate. The wood we found was rose tinted and perfectly cut.
We have taken many many photos. I´m waiting for my computer to be fixed as to upload the photos.
Hobbit House Hostel, Las Malvinas
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 8 August 2011
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