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

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L'esperienza

🌿 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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Cosa offri

25 ore di aiuto per settimana

Pulizia: Aiuta a pulire la cucina, le camere da letto, i bagni e le aree comuni.

Aiuto cucina: Aiuta a preparare, completare e servire i pasti.

Agricoltura: Pianta colture, semina e aiuta nei lavori all'aperto.

Giardinaggio: Aiuta a coltivare piante e curare giardini

Costo aggiuntivo richiesto

Importo: € 5 Al giorno

Il costo copre: Benefici per i viaggiatori e Materiali per le attività di volontariato

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

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Cosa ottieni

1 giorno libero a settimana

Dormitorio condiviso: Avrai un letto in una camera condivisa, il che significa che condividerai la stessa stanza con altri viaggiatori.

Campeggio: Dormirai in una tenda in un'area di campeggio.

Colazione: Hai diritto a una colazione gratuita, ogni giorno del tuo soggiorno.

Pranzo: Hai diritto a un pranzo gratuito, ogni giorno del tuo soggiorno.

Cena: Hai diritto a una cena gratuita, ogni giorno del tuo soggiorno.

Lavanderia Gratuita: Puoi utilizzare liberamente la nostra lavanderia.

Eventi gratuiti: Ottieni ingresso gratuito per i migliori eventi in città.

Accesso Internet Base: Internet a velocità base per lavorare da remoto

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Requisiti

Principiante Italiano o Principiante Inglese

Tra 18 e 80 anni

Accoglie volontari singoli, coppie e partner di volontari

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Cosa non è incluso

Voli, assicurazione di viaggio, trasporti interni e visto

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Dettagli del programma

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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Attività e turni

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.