🌱 Help Grow Organic in the Mountains of Italy 🇮🇹🏔️

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L'expérience

🌿 About the Project

Homestay in the Italian mountains (Marche region), living close to nature with an organic lifestyle. We grow fruit, vegetables, and mushrooms, and conserve much of our food.

🛠️ Help & Exchange

Help with housekeeping, farming, food preserving, and small construction projects.
In exchange we offer dorm accommodation, meals, laundry, internet, solar electricity, free tours, and social moments.

🤝 Who We’re Looking

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Ce que vous offrez

25 heures d'aide par semaine

Nettoyage: Aider à nettoyer la cuisine, les chambres, les salles de bain et les espaces communs.

Aide en cuisine: Aider à préparer, finaliser et servir les repas.

Agriculture: Planter des cultures, semer des graines et aider aux tâches extérieures.

Jardinage: Aider à faire pousser des plantes et cultiver des jardins

Frais supplémentaires requis

Montant: € 5 Par jour

Les frais couvrent: Avantages pour les voyageurs et Matériel pour les activités de volontariat

Description: The fees are mainly contribution to groceries for meals and gas to drive you around.

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Ce que vous recevez

1 jour de congé par semaine

Dortoir partagé: Vous aurez un lit dans une chambre partagée, ce qui signifie que vous partagerez la même chambre avec d'autres voyageurs.

Tente: Vous dormirez dans une tente sur un site de camping.

Petit-déjeuner: Vous avez droit à un petit-déjeuner gratuit, tous les jours de votre séjour.

Déjeuner: Vous avez droit à un déjeuner gratuit, tous les jours de votre séjour.

Dîner: Vous avez droit à un dîner gratuit, tous les jours de votre séjour.

Laverie Gratuite: Vous pouvez utiliser notre buanderie librement.

Événements gratuits: Entrée gratuite aux meilleurs événements de la ville.

Accès Internet Basique: Internet à vitesse basique pour travailler à distance

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Exigences

Débutant Italien ou Débutant Anglais

Entre 18 et 80 ans

Accueille les volontaires solo, les couples et les partenaires de volontaires

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Ce qui n'est pas inclus

Vols, assurance voyage, transport interne et visa

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Détails du programme

I wish my volunteers to help me grow organic food and conserve it.
Welcome to a small-scale, off-grid, organic homestead where sustainability, learning, and shared work come together. Electricity on the land is produced by solar panels, and food is grown using organic and regenerative practices.

The property includes a young orchard that is continually expanding. Volunteers can take part in planting fruit trees, maintaining the orchard, and learning about tree care. A nursery on site allows for propagation, and there are opportunities to learn and practice grafting techniques.

Vegetable production happens both outdoors and in a greenhouse. The greenhouse allows seedlings to be started early in the season before being transplanted into garden beds or grown undercover. Volunteers will help with seeding, planting, maintenance, and harvesting throughout the growing season.

There is also an edible mushroom project using inoculated logs. Volunteers may assist with maintaining existing mushroom logs, producing new ones in the spring, and creating mushroom patches integrated into the garden.

As the garden, orchard, and mushroom projects begin to produce, food preservation becomes an important part of the work. Volunteers can learn traditional and practical methods of conserving vegetables, fruits, and mushrooms so they can be enjoyed year-round.

In addition to food production, help is needed with small natural and functional building projects around the property. These may include building a solar shower, a pizza oven, a shed, and other simple structures using practical, hands-on techniques.

This program is ideal for volunteers interested in renewable energy, organic growing, self-sufficiency, food preservation, and learning by doing in a peaceful, rural environment.

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Activités et horaires

Tasks vary by season and weather. Volunteers help with a mix of the following:

Watering, planting, weeding, and harvesting in the garden
Greenhouse work: seeding, transplanting, and seedling care
Orchard care: planting trees, pruning, nursery work, and grafting (seasonal)
Maintaining and producing edible mushroom logs and garden patches
Food preservation when harvests begin (drying, fermenting, canning, freezing)
Helping build small structures (solar shower, pizza oven, shed, etc.)
General maintenance, tool care, and clean-up
Cooking, cleaning.

Shifts & Schedule

Work time: 4–5 hours per day, 5 days per week
Schedule: Mostly morning shifts, adjusted for season and weather

Structure:

Short morning briefing
Main work period with breaks
Light wrap-up and clean-up

Afternoons are usually free for rest or personal time. Tasks are adapted to ability, and volunteers learn by doing in a relaxed, supportive environment.