What's this? Hello everybody! We are a big family that 10 years ago bought, together with several other families, a land to make our dream come true: live in harmony with nature and with each other, creating a little paradise to raise up our children. All these years we have been creating spaces - by now almost each family has built their house to live, and we even built a "homeschooling" school four years ago where we make activities with the children on a daily basis.
The quinta where we live together is a very special place: it is big and wild, has an incredibly beautiful river, pure air and water, and is surrounded by only more wild nature. We are totally off-the-grid: our water comes from a nearby spring, we use only renewable energies as a source of electricity, and we have compost toilets. Oraibi, a part of the whole community, works like this: We are a big family with small children, trying to educate them, build a bigger house and get sustainable, everything at the same time : So a lot of things and life force going on here This summer in Oraibi we will be finally!
Of course, this will take some time Unlike previous years, when we had up to 20 volunteers simultaneously, this year we want to keep our focus in a smaller group, so we will have a limit of people we say "yes" to. This will give less of a "summer building party" feeling, but a more close and family-like relation among the people involved.
We have experience with both ways and must say that are both very beautiful and enriching in their own way. Update July Right now we are in urgent need to create a bigger group for making the walls of our house in August.
The walls will be made with the light-straw-clay technique, a quite amazing technique to know because just with straw and clay both cheap and natural materials you can make high insolated walls Update 7-August We created a beautiful group for the first two weeks of August having a lot of nice moments in what they call our "Straw party" : , but several of our volunteers will be leaving middle next week to continue their journey. So we are searching for four to six new volunteers to keep building up the house!
