Zee Barn

We live a simple and regenerative lifestyle. We strive to stay connected with nature and mother earth and do our best to embody this connection. Our space is growing with love and dedication and relays an inspiration and a haven for like-minded seekers. We are easygoing yet hardworking, clean and organized, and offer our exchange to similar people who want to volunteer their time with us while learning and getting inspired from all the work we have already done. If you are inspired and love permaculture and living simply, and have a skill that we are looking for, then this is an opportunity.

ZEE STORY Zee Barn was born out of a love for living simply in balance with Mother Nature. At Zee Barn, we cultivate & co-create the living dream...that of recreating the Garden of Eden. This co-creation includes permaculture and regenerative design, yoga & meditation while connecting with other Earth-friendly beings. We journey with sound and breath during retreats & immersions designed to restore your body & soul. Our exquisite & scrumptious homegrown and finely prepared food is a trip of its own... come & enjoy Zee Barn is a restorative dimension. ​ Peppi is originally from the island of Malta. He is an experienced ecological designer, a certified permaculturist, alternative farmer, teacher, consultant, and also the founder of the Permaculture Research Foundation for Malta. He is the visionary behind the Bahrija Oasis project Malta which was an ambitious permaculture project on a dry, windy, and arid landscape since 18 years ago. His vision & design has bloomed the landscape with carefully designed & naturally occurring biodiversity and attracted many individuals, groups, reporters & documentary filmmakers. Peppi has also ignited the vision for ZEE and he is now busy planting the forest, saving seeds, building interesting structures, growing food, teaching, sometimes surfing, and reaching out to others who form part of the Zee Community Melania is originally from Tuscany, Italy but she has a nomadic soul. She was two years old when she was introduced to India for the first time. Thanks to her unconventional family she has traveled since a young age. She has grown up exposed to Oriental culture, Indian tradition, and Macrobiotic diet and philosophy. In 2008 she left Italy, moved by an inner call to go for deeper Spiritual growth. Melania has been involved in various Permaculture Projects where she discovered an inner joy and power in connecting with mother earth. She loves to take care of the Zee gardens and the Zee kitchen where she cooks creative, colorful Macrobiotic vegan dishes mostly made with our vegetables and herbs. She believes that the universal energies of nature are absorbed through the foods we eat and transmuted into our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Melania is also a committed yoga practitioner and teacher. Her desire to learn and teach yoga took her to India a number of times but she finally completed her 800 h yogic studies in 2017 in Australia at the Byron Yoga Centre with her senior teacher John Ogilvie. We treat everyone as part of our community. With respect and dignity. Our spaces are simple and basic, yet clean and functional. We also expect all our members and volunteers to treat the space with sacredness: cleanliness and respect are our foundations. We expect our volunteers to also clean the spaces they use (showers, kitchen & toilets and sleeping quarters and maintain order and respect for others). We do not tolerate carelessness and dirty spaces and we would honor our mission, space & community by asking offenders to leave if we experience disruptive behaviours.