Hacienda Casa Malinche, Estado de Tlaxcala

Looking for volunteers all over the year

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5 days minimum stay. 

Projects: watering plants/trees of new hiking path, adding more hiking paths, finishing building a green house, creating a new garden, daily task (feeding dogs/cats, maintaining hacienda,etc.)

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Hacienda Casa Malinche  

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.:. HACIENDA CASA MALINCHE .:.

BED & BREAKFAST

THE PLACE:

The location of this work/exchange is in an old Hacienda at the base of the Volcano "La Malinche" National Park, the 6th highest mountain in Mexico. A 15- minutes bus ride from Huamantla, the hacienda is in a beautiful place in central Mexico. From the roof of the 17th Century ruins of the hacienda, volunteers and guests can see the great mountains surrounding the site of the hacienda. Mountains such as Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccihuatl which are more than 5000m (16,000 feet) in height.

THE HELP NEEDED:

We recently renovated the Hacienda with the idea to build a"Casa Rural" Bed & Breakfast Hacienda. We need your help to keep this project going.

The kind of help we are looking for is help on small details that need to be done inside and outside the Hacienda. We are currently learning permaculture techniques and organic farming that would help us make a better and more sustainable Bed & Breakfast and home to live in. We have lots of new projects to start and need help finishing others. Example of projects: renovating a green house, finishing a volunteer room, creating an organic garden, front courtyard landscaping and recycling system. It would be great to have creative and healthy individuals to help with these projects, so we can learn together about environmentally-friendly construction, organicfarming, vegetarian cooking, permaculture, etc.

Some of the work is hard manual work (like painting or moving large items) and some work is simple (like feeding the dogs or watering plants). Some of the work is garden related (creating a path around the Maguey trees, planting avocado trees, etc), some of the work is Bed and Breakfast related (helping with cooking and cleaning) and some of the work is renovating the hacienda (adding doors and  windows, building  roof, etc).

THE HOST:

Javier, from Mexico, is a touristic guide. There is sometimes the opportunity to join him up La Malinche, if there are guided trips scheduled during your stay. Rockclimbers are welcomed to bring their gears to join him in some local climbs on days off.

THE ENVIRONMENT:

We wish to create a healthy, calm and relaxed environment.We kindly ask participants to restrain from smoking in and around the hacienda. Also, we ask participants to abstain from alcohol drinking. On weekends, the days off, participants are free to go out to the nearby cities of Tlaxcala, Huamantla or Puebla.  We are mostly vegetarian. This is a great place to read, spend a lot of "alone" time, do yoga and/or meditate.

Often participants are working alone on projects or spending time alone in the evening. We have 2 dogs and one cat living in the hacienda who love the company of volunteers.

THE ACCOMMODATIONS:

We have a basic volunteer dormitory room with a dry toilet nearby.  There is access to a hot-water shower when there are no guests in the hacienda.  At the moment, we don't have a computer or WiFi available for volunteers.  Volunteers are welcomed to go to an internet cafe in Huamantla to check emails on days off.  Remember that this is a very old hacienda and that we are still far from being the Ritz Carlton!

We are high in the mountain, the nights are cold, unlike Cancun or Acapulco. Bring lots of warm clothes to work, live and sleep.  Bring your own very warm sleeping bag.

THE WORK SCHEDULE:

Some days we have a clear schedule  (especially when there are guests) and some days are very "Montessori" (you decide what you would  like to do today!).

The workweek is about 36 hours, 6 days a week, more or less.

THE FOOD:

As for your food, we will share our kitchen and food with the volunteers for three meals a day (until the volunteer room’ kitchen is ready.)

CHARACTERISTICS WE ARE LOOKING FOR IN A VOLUNTEER:

-Can work alone.

-Can spend time alone.

-Can be by himself/herself to be responsible of the hacienda when we are away on guiding trips.

-Can work without supervision.

-Can stay with us a minimum of 10 days

-Can cook for himself/herself.

-No problems with using dry toilet.

-Ok with animals and insects (dogs, cats, spiders, etc).

-Ok with cold weather (to live, work and sleep).

-Ok with sharing a volunteer room with other genders.

-If volunteers are coming as a couple, we expect them to be able to work separately.

TO CONTACT US:

Due to the large amount of requests, please send us an email instead of using the board to write us. This is how to contact us:

-Go to our farm administrator profile: http://www.wwoofmexico.org/profile/Livingston

-Add us as a contact

-After receiving our confirmation of adding as a contact, write us an email using the Inbox system

-We might take up to 5 days to reply

-General format email sent to many farms might or might not be answered

Everyone is welcome!

Javier Zamora

Hacienda Casa Malinche

Estado de Tlaxcala, Mexico

www.casamalinche.com

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Here is a picture from the top of the abandoned chapel of the Hacienda. It has a great view of the Volcano "La Malinche", which is just 25 minutes away.