Hello there. Well, we are getting the hostel ready now for the start of spring and then summer, so it is time to introduce myself - Mr Mark - as the family head, Sol being it's heart, and her food being in our bellies...yum yum....
So, really those who write on the blog here are the ecovolunteers who come here and take on this job as part of the project. Ada started it, then Mina continued it and got it to the excellent state it is in today, so thanks a whole bunch to them. The thing is that I am now 43 years old and really I would like this blog to be more of a reflection of what this place is about, in the young and vibrant language of those who stay here, following the theme of the organic network. So my writing will probably be found more at http://www.wonfamily.net/ which is at the moment being written and formed as an umbrella organisation, to set up a trend of family farm hostels, where any family, or familiarity group, can copy our model and find a way to get out of the rat race and log onto the grid of autonomous decentralized cooperatives by building hostels, sustainability acadamies, wellbeing centres, one world therapy centres, or whatever takes one's fancy..
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.
Tuesday 30 August 2011
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