• Life On Land

Stingless Native beekeepers

location
1 - 6 weeks  ·  Alder 16 - 50+
rating  Brilliant 4.7  · 
  Verificeret af Volunteer World
  Excellent Svarrate

Højdepunkter

  • These stingless native bees doubles the fauna the Forest can support by increasing the fruit output through pollination.
  • Fantastic creeks with natural pools of semi-olympic size and beautiful waterfalls
  • eat heathy delicious fruits and food.
  • walk and exercise outdoors
  • Free rides to Rio de Janeiro city on weekends (2hs travel).

Særligt velegnet til

Alder 16+
Singler
Par
Familier
Grupper
50+

Om programmet

It is an absolutely pleasure discover how native sting bees organizes their complex society and to interact with them! Support our Native bees and the Forest they protect

In this program the volunteer will learn how to manage native bees and create artificial homes for them. Part of the work includes pleasant trails in the woods. In managing beehives, the volunteer will learn how to feed the bees to keep them healthy, how to collect honey (November to March), and how ...

Om programmet

In this program the volunteer will learn how to manage native bees and create artificial homes for them. Part of the work includes pleasant trails in the woods. In managing beehives, the volunteer will learn how to feed the bees to keep them healthy, how to collect honey (November to March), and how to protect beehives under attack.  

We have appropriate beekeeping cloth/protection to provide you. Although they do not sting, we do not want them to enter our nose. 



In a 18 hours a week program we will give freedom to our volunteer to choose to work 4 or 5 days a week.

Cultivating native stingless bees  is an essential activity in many ways:
- It supports our reforestation program, since we have a vast area recently reforested and  young trees do not have hollows to host beehives inside. The young trees need bees for pollination and bees need homes to increase their population and respond to the increasing demand of young trees.
- The increasing pollination by our cultivated native bees will provide more fruits and seeds to feed the  fauna. A  a more rich and abundant fauna will protect many endangered species. Furthermore, many animals have important roles in  planting seeds and spreading  seeds, strengthening the forest. 
- It provides an income to our project much in need of resources to keep going. This income will come from selling honey in a very sustainable way with the health of the beehives at sight. In the same way bees takes what exceeds from plants (nectar) we only take what exceeds their daily needs. We constantly provide them food (nectar and pollen) by planting flowers for them and making syrups when needed.

Typisk dag

In a typical day, volunteers prepare their only meal with organic (mostly) ingredients, all plant based (no animal protein).



Wake up before 6:30am, 
Prepare breakfast, keep kitchen clean. During the day, we don't always have time to prepare lunch, so we prepare part of lunch in the morning too.
 8:30

Typisk dag

In a typical day, volunteers prepare their only meal with organic (mostly) ingredients, all plant based (no animal protein).



Wake up before 6:30am, 
Prepare breakfast, keep kitchen clean. During the day, we don't always have time to prepare lunch, so we prepare part of lunch in the morning too.
 8:30am - prepare artificial homes or (if already prepared) go in a trail to place them or make ecological painting for wooden bee nests.  Other activities would be to prepare propolis, or extract honey on demand. 
Noon- Lunch
For 1 hour in the afternoon - Prepare bee syrup and feed bees. 

I will be guiding you all along.

Fritidsaktiviteter

We are in a very preserved section of native Rain Forest, called Atlantic Rain Forest. There is a beautiful creek that cross our land with many nice bathing spots. 


There are many walking trails with beautiful boulders and beautiful view of the entire valley.

You can get to know humble and happy ...

Fritidsaktiviteter

We are in a very preserved section of native Rain Forest, called Atlantic Rain Forest. There is a beautiful creek that cross our land with many nice bathing spots. 


There are many walking trails with beautiful boulders and beautiful view of the entire valley.

You can get to know humble and happy local people. 

You can birdwatch. Best time is early in the morning. More than 150 species roam our place

You can place camera traps to see animals moving at night. 

You will savor many exotic (for you) fruits.You will savor different types of honey.

You can enjoy a cozy bonfire at night outdoors. 

Krav

Krav

Minimumsalder: 16 år

For at kunne deltage i programmet skal du være mindst 16 år gammel på programmets startdato.

Sprogfærdigheder

Du skal kunne tale Engelsk (basic level)

Nationalitetsrestriktioner

Ingen begrænsninger. Hjælpende hænder fra hele verden er velkomne.

Tidsforpligtelse

Der er brug for din hjælpende hånd Mandag, Tirsdag, Onsdag og Torsdag fra 09:00 - 13:00

Hvad er inkluderet

Hvad er inkluderet

Tjenester af Fazenda São Marcos

These fees will help us to provide you organic healthy whole food plant based ingredients for your meal. We expect volunteers to prepare their own meal that will be done in a collaborative kitchen. I am a celiac and because of it, the kitchen  is gluten free. We will eat local  meals,i.e., with ingredients extracted from the land or nearby organic producers. We will buy plenty of nut, and rich ingredients. I am growing mushrooms that will be available in our meals. 


Also these fees will pay our costs hosting a volunteer (wifi, energy, gas, working tools) and it will allow us to buy more  trees  and plant in our land for you to carbon neutralize your travel to Brazil.  

A percentual of your contribution will be for us to improve our accommodations to receive volunteers and support our work in environmental preservation.  

 

We also provide environment for your home office, so that you can continue your work with very little living expenses and generate money for your future travels. 

These fees include  trips on Friday noon to weekends in Rio de Janeiro city, returning Monday early morning to fazenda São Marcos. Every Friday I do delivery of organic produce in Rio de Janeiro city and stay with my wife and son and return to Fazenda São Marcos on Sunday evening or Monday morning,

We do not pick you up on airport, but on Sundays evening or Mondays mornings I can pick you up at a hostel in Rio de Janeiro or airport on the way to Fazenda São Marcos. 

If you arrive any day other than Sunday or Monday, you can take a uber/taxi to Rio's road station and take a bus to Cachoeiras De Macacu and I pick you up there, or you can get to visit Rio de Janeiro and travel with me in the next return trip to Fazenda São Marcos.


Afhentning i lufthavnen i Santos Dumont Airport

Every Monday morning I travel from Rio de Janeiro to Fazenda São Marcos (2hs travel). In case you arrive on Monday morning I can pick you up in the airport. In case you arrive in a different day, please get to know Rio de Janeiro and meet me on my home in Rio de Janeiro (very beautiful and safe neighborhood of Leblon). 

Indkvartering

Bedrooms suite (w/ bathroom), with warm blankets and window. Simple but all you need is there.  In the case of a large group, we provide a large dorm room. 

Mad og drikkevarer

It will be a great opportunity for you to enjoy a healthy whole food plant based diet. We eat this way, so that we preserve our health, protect the environment and fight climate change. In special red meat is associated with deforestation, chicken meat is associated with factory farming where dangerous avian flu are being bred and our oceans are being depleted of life due to overfishing. 

We provide food for all meals and snacks. We invite volunteers to prepare whole food  plant based meals with us and you will learn how easy it is to cook a healthy and delicious diet at home. 


Furthermore, due to my celiac condition, it will be offered only gluten free diet.


Drinks: Excellent coffee, tea (green, herbals), water kefir, soy milk, nut milk, cocoa power. No alcoholic beverage. No soft drinks.  


Food: amaranth, quinoa, rice, beans, sweet potato, potato, squash seeds, sunflower seeds,cashew nuts, peanut paste,  garbanzo beans, banana, exotic fruits, palm hearts, leafy vegetables, seasonal legumes, popcorn, fruit jams, tahine. 

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Hvad er IKKE inkluderet?

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Flybilletter

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Oplysninger ved ankomst

We are open for volunteering all year around. We provide transport to Fazenda São Marcos every Monday morning. I ask you to take a uber/taxi to my family's home in Rio de Janeiro (in a very safe and beautiful neighborhood of Leblon) and we depart from there. 

Tilgængelighed
Jan. Febr. Marts April Maj Jun Jul Aug. Sept. Okt. Nov. Dec.

Programgebyrer

1 uge (min. ophold) 298€
2 uger 343€
3 uger 388€
4 uger 432€
6 uger (max. ophold) 522€
Gennemsnitligt gebyr 192€/uge

Programgebyrer

192€ pr. uge 1 - 6 weeks Alder 16 - 50+

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Duration

1 - 6 weeks

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Final Payment

Din endelige betaling vil blive aftalt med Fazenda São Marcos under ansøgningsprocessen. Almindelige løsninger er enten via bankoverførsel eller kontant betaling på projektstedet.

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Fazenda São Marcos

Brilliant 4.7 rating (20 feltrapporter)

Agentur - grundlagt i 1972

Verificeret af Volunteer World

  Excellent Svarrate

Vært er

Marcus

Spoken languages: Portugisisk, Engelsk

Om projektet

We preserve 95% of our land (~1km^2) as native tropical rainforest, generate income for local people. We also teach people ways to preserve and fight climate change.

Mød din vært

20 years ago, my parents started a major forest regeneration in our land and today we are proudly 95% native forest. Our land stays in an important area for water generation for major urban areas of Rio de Janeiro and we have 12 spring waters protected by our forest that are part of the water supply system for millions. We have borders with a important Rio de Janeiro State Park (Três Picos) that forms an important mountain range of Atlantic rainforest that protects it and its rich biodiversity. We also have borders to another important initiative REGUA.ORG, that has been reforesting thousands of hectares (and acres) of land (or dozens of km^2) and we have borders with a natural spring water company that values forest as a form of preserving water supply.   


In 2018, we faced a situation of housing a unemployed local person that decided to destroy a small part of our forest to make a conventional plantation to make a living. It was not only a unauthorized act but illegal, since Atlantic Forest is protected by law. We offered him a solution of getting a income using organic(bio) methods of agriculture on available land and cultivating practices that goes along with the forest (native fruit trees, mushrooms, native beekeeping) and respecting the environmental laws. That's how we started!  We started with this realization that we cannot do environmental preservation without including local people in the solution. We plan to become a scalable model that will multiply and 

Since November 2019 we have volunteer program (we are top hosts at Worldpackers and wwoof host for quite some time), where we educate people about agroforestry, native bees, carbon and ecological  footprint, plant and fungi based diet as a healing diet and a form of fighting climate change and environmental preservation.  In fact, we emphasize the connection of healing yourself and healing the planet, where the student/volunteer realizes not only the physical benefits from chemical free plant and fungi based diet, but also the mental benefits of living in a nature abundant environment, with less high-tec distractions, understanding and appreciating the art of organic farming with his hands and few machinery. Agroforestry farming is a perfect blend of exercising and meditation where you need to bring your presence to the moment whether you're planting a delicate seedling or using a machete. 

We are already facing climate change challenge of food scarcity and we cultivate food adapted to hotter climate like tropical edible plants that are more productive and adapted than staple foods (some of them with high negative impact in climate change like rice crops that releases a lot of methane).  

Furthermore, we fixate tons of carbon in our syntropic agroforestry method that cultivates trees  and  develops a rich soil that brings carbon down through its root/microbial system.

Many of the native plants have medicinal use and we are teaming up with Ayurveda teachers to provide workshops on the use of natural and medicinal use of plants for healing the body and cosmetic use. 

We have a in house researcher and agroforestry teacher, Alexandre de Almeida, a biologist with  Phd in ecology and specialization in birds (ornithologist), and there is on going research on biodiversity in our land.

20 feltrapporter · rating4.7

Ellie Potts rating5

2024 at Stingless Native beekeepers

My roommate and I joined Marcus on his farm to assist in bee keeping for two weeks as a school project. We're sophomores in college from the States and loved our experience. In such a short time, we learned so much about the rainforest, bees, health and our bodies. We enjoyed Marcus's approach to ...
Alice Stewart rating4.6

2024 at Stingless Native beekeepers

We had a great stay at Fazenda learning all about the bees and their complex systems, the wildlife and the value of a plant based diet and spirituality. I learned so much on my stay that I will take with me for life. It was truly an astonishing experience to be immersed in the forest and experience ...
Clara PETIT GARCIA rating5

2024 at Agroforestry Assistant

It was a wonderful experience to come here, and I am so happy I have choosen this mission. In the addition of doing a meaningful job and learning a lot about agroforestery and permaculture you have an experience with Marcus and other volonteers, all with the same conviction of making the world ...
Elie Beaufils rating5

2024 at Agroforestry Assistant

J ai passé 4 semaines à la Fazenda avec Marcus et deux autres volontaires françaises. J' ai appris beaucoup plus que ce que j' aurais pensé car Marcus aime vraiment ce qu il fait et on voit qu il prend plaisir à partager ses larges connaissances . L'endroit est juste magnifique ( les montagnes, ...
Drim Stokhuijzen rating4.8

2024 at Agroforestry Assistant

This January, I've visited Sao Marcos for two weeks. Marcos is a beautiful spirit, truly motivated and I'm really grateful to have experienced what it is like to go work in the jungle and live vegan. The house is very comfortable and I felt at home quickly. I would say I can call Marcos my friend, ...
Antoine Van Aerde rating5

2023 at Agroforestry Assistant

If you're wondering about this opportunity, follow your gut. Whilst I wandered through beautiful Brazil, this was one of the stops I made - an unforgettable experience, counting countless stars at night around the campfire. Marcus and his brother are two remarkable people with such deep ...

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