Michael Sol

Hi Henry! Lovely to read about your readyness, availability and motivation.
Please visit our website to check if you would really fit in the spirit of the project www.serenelightgardens.org.
If yes, it would be great to do a video call soon and explain you the situation and details of the project 😉
Just write us an email through the website.

Hi everyone,

This is a paid opportunity.
We are looking for a responsible and healthy lifestyle person with knowledge and experience in Permaculture to take care, manage volunteers and make www.serenelightgardens.org thrive while we take care of other projects.
Being vegetarian, and not using tobacco, any drugs including marijuana, alcohol has to be what you value and live without any difficulties.
We will give preference to a person who practices meditation and/or yoga.

The job requires to:
-Maintain the already implemented projects by watering, weeding, mulching
-Plant more and help to regenerate the soil by making compost piles, mulching
-Coordinate volunteers
-Be present on the farm every day and night
-Speak well English and Spanish

Please visit our website and check if this is really something for you.
You can then contact us through the website and we will schedule a video call with you.

Michael and Yasmín

AMAZING OPORTUNITY!!! STUNNING ORGANIC FARM IN PORTUGAL

PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
Organic farm of 3.25Ha in Alentejo with 8 houses plus agricultural buildings.
- Registered and certified by CERTIPLANET with financial support from government and business running with profit-earning capacity of over 40,000€/year only from the sale of products (it could be maximized) plus the rentals (usually fully booked) of the huts and houses. Ideal opportunity for a group project as well.
- Abundant water provision: 2 boreholes with solar pumps, 1x 60m3 water tank.

INFRAESTRUCTURES:
5 Houses and 3 huts:
- Main house with 65m2, 3 bedrooms, w.c, compost toilet, kitchen area, wood stove and double glazed windows.
- Three houses with 32m2 double bedroom, w.c, compost toilet, kitchen area, wood stove, outside terrace and double glazed windows.
- 1 small house with about 26m2, compost toilet, shower and kitchenet.
- Three huts with 10.8m2 (inside measurement) incudes cork insolation.
- Shipping container house equipped with kitchen+bathroom/shower.
- Separate small building for compost toilets.
- Fully equipped and self-sufficient electric and hot water systems with solar panels and batteries.
- A 20m2 house for batteries, pumps and storage.
Agricultural buildings:
- Outbuilding for storage with 80m2.
- Cool cellar for produce storage of 15m2.
PLANTATIONS:
- 5 years old fruit orchard (about 450 trees in total bearing abundant fruits),
- 4.000m2 of vegetable gardens, of which 1400m2 are protected by 6 polytunnel greenhouses what allows production all year around,
- about 2.000m2 of berry plantations (strawberries, black berries, raspberries, redcurrant and blueberries),
- forest area with oak and cork trees, a few eucalyptus, wild medicinal plants and other medicinal plants.
Irrigation system all through the land + small lake.
ACCESS:
Double access to the land registered with full possibilities (1 access for pedestrians and cars, another access for all kind of transportation that includes tracks and tractors).
LOCATION:
– Close to the charming small village “Aldeia das Amoreiras”. 15kms from Ourique / IC1. 20kms from A2 (motorway). 45 minutes walking to Monte Sahaja from forest access and 15minutes by car.
PRICE:
495.000€
CONTACT:
Yasmín: +34 654 579 155

Now with organic certification and permit to set up a 20m2 wooden house.
price drop to 360.000euros

How big is the ruin?

Our Volunteer Coordinator is about to finish his time here and we are urgently looking for a new one. Without the coordinator we can't receive any other volunteers. Please contact us ONLY if you are looking forward to stay at least 3 months and like to manage a team of volunteers. We would organize a skype call for more details.

We are a couple working with permaculture near the ocean (literally 5min by foot from beach and natural pools) and the Anaga mountains reserve of the biosphere.
We have been in the island together since over 10 years.
We speak 5 languages, are artists and musicians. We do yoga, singing and meditation sometimes. We also love to swap massages and various therapies.
We plant local trees, fruit trees, veggies. We build with clay, stone and wood.
The meals are vegetarian and vegan friendly.
We will provide you with more information once you contacted us.
Smokers or drug users would not fit here, sorry.
You can see more about the project here www.serenelightgardens.org and in which conditions the volunteers (called SEVA opportunity in our project) come:www.sevatenerife.tk

Pierre and Yasmin +34654579155

The image is the nice little hut you would be able to stay with good mattress and electricity and light.
More pictures on the website www.bajamar.tk

After 10 years looking for the appropriate land, we found 3 years ago this amazing land in which we worked tirelessly for the last 2,5 years but we finally came to the realization that unfortunately it is way too much work for our capacities and health.

It has a huge potential for ecoturism as it has an excellent access, the amazing natural pools of bajamar are just at 5min WALKING distance, natural park of Anaga starts after 15min walking, health-food shop around the corner, airport and university city at 15min by car and bus stop only 30meters from the back door. To give you an idea,you can see the location of the farm in red on the attached map and the natural pools in yellow.

The farm has already the following features:

-Over 600 native plants planted to create a wind-break
-40 fruit trees just planted of all kinds (banana, papaya, mango, sapotes, nisperos,figs, orange, lemons etc...
-2 containers as tool room and storage (many of the tools are included as a totally equipped farm)
-over 200 trucks of organic material have been brought to enhance the soil
-artistic outside shower
-artistic dry toilet
-Solar System (700W panels, 2 batteries of 250A, and inverter that can work with up to 3KW)
-more than 1km of water pipes, dripping lines.
-best water in Tenerife with only 240 of conductivity and ph7,4 (normally 400-2000 conductivity and ph 8-9 most of the island) for 0,56€/m3
-2 basic huts made of cane and palm leaves
-small stone house of 10m2
-small wooden house of 18m2
-Wood platform (we used it for yoga) with pergola of 24m2
-Potential to get the permit to build 350m2 of agricultural buildings + 250m2 of buildings for complementary activities like education + 30-70m2 of legal house once the new planning of the city hall comes out planned for 2019-2020 +more m2 of touristic buildings when presenting a serious project to the government of the Island (cabildo).

Here a video to have an idea:  [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=oFaFPMknIG0[/youtube]
This video has been made last year in October and the new artistic dry toilet as well as the two small good houses are not visible. Pictures on request.

Price 420.000€

Some more pictures...

Yes, we know the community. Many friends participate there. It is in the south of the island.

Hi Kristopher,

Ideally we would like to exchange for something smaller and our scale and not so ambitious. Gold is much more stable then any country money at this time but we can figure that out with anyone interested.

The land is between 50 and 65meters over sea level and there is no sea water infiltration (as most of the island has) because the well where we have the water from has little mineralization (what is usually rare in tenerife because of the ocean water infiltration).