We are preparing a basecamp for harvest volunteers — sleeping accommodation, a compost toilet block, and a shared working area on the hillside. We need people who know how to build. Or who want to learn.
Finca Tariqa is a working citrus and reforestation farm on a limestone hillside outside Carcaixent, Valencia. From this harvest season we want to bring people to help pick the oranges and plant holm oaks — but we have nowhere to properly host them yet.
A small sleeping area, a composting toilet block, and a basecamp that can support a rotating group through harvest season.
We are looking for people who can help design and build this — in exchange for food, time on one of the most unusual agricultural landscapes in Spain, and the dwelling you build yourself.
You do not need to be a professional. But you need to be serious about the work. This is a real build on a real farm, and what gets constructed will be used by people for years.
You have hands-on experience with construction, natural building, or sanitation systems. You can lead a build, problem-solve on site, and leave behind something that works. We will treat you as a collaborator, not a labourer.
You have never built anything, but you want to. You are physically capable, you will follow instruction, and you are prepared to do the unglamorous work any real build involves. We will teach what we can.
The first structure you build is your own dwelling. You arrive with a tent and leave with something more permanent. That is the job.
Cooked from the grove and the local market in Carcaixent. Spanish farmhouse food. No catering — real meals, eaten together.
Eight thousand square metres of citrus, a limestone hillside under reforestation, and one of the oldest agricultural landscapes in Spain. Yours to explore when the work is done.
Tell us what you know how to build and when you can come.
We will reply within a week. If we think you are a fit, we will arrange a call before confirming anything.