Hola

Thanks for your email. How long would you be looking to come for? Do you have much horse care experience?
You would be staying in a
small casita (like a little dormitory with two single beds) with a kitchen next door, or in a caravan.
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The kitchen is shared with all of our farm help too. We have an outside compost toilet, and a hot
shower in a separate building, which is used by all on the Ranch (normally
there are a minimum of 8 other people staying). The accommodation is VERY basic.
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We provide the food for breakfasts and lunches, which we ask you to
prepare for yourselves. Everyone takes turns to make evening meals: we supply you with the
basic ingredients, and a mostly vegetarian diet.
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The weather can be warm, but it can change very rapidly in the high altitudes: we are over 1000 meters above sea level in the Sierra Nevada, so bring plently of warm
clothes such as fleeces.
We have solar lights in the bedroom and kitchen and candles in the caravans, but recommend you bring a torch for trips to the loo in the dark!
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We normally breakfast before 7.30am, and start work just after.
Our typical day includes walking dogs (we do some ‘kenneling’), moving horses to the meadow, preparing horses for rides, feeding them and mucking out the stables, cleaning tack, exercising horses, helping with childrens riding classes, repairing fencing, repairing tack etc.>
Our fittest helpers sometimes walk to town in the evenings. Others just cook and play cards or games in the kitchen. We take our son to school in the mornings on week days, so are always happy to take you with us down to town so you can catch the bus to Granada or other towns on your days off.
Hacks can be a half hour walk out with children, or 1, 2, 3, 4 hours or full days. It would be most likely you would help with the shorter routes. Today, for instance, we had no rides booked, but suddenly received a few phone calls and we had 8 horses to get ready in half an hour and another ride straight after. All jobs we planned for the day were dropped. As long as you can be flexible, im sure you will be a big help!
We have 21 horses. At the moment most live out as the weather is mild, and we ‘poop scoop’ the field each day. The older horses are in the stables for the night and mucked out each day.
Everyone helps with the horses, dogs (we sometimes have 6 or more boarders that need walking each day), kids and domestic chores. We work a six day week and often long days. We are high in the mountains and the weather can be very changeable (and farm work continues, whatever the weather!) Let me know if you have any questions whatsoever.
Please note that English tea is hard to come by locally. So if you drink black tea, please bring your own teabags!!! Please make sure your arrival to the town is before 6pm, as we are unable to come down the mountain after this time (the kids go to school early each morning, and I have to get them in bed for 7.30pm!)
We are high in the mountains. There is wifi in the nearest town, which helpers use on their days off.
Let me know if you still want to come. All the best.
Sarah