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🌿 Come and Experience a Lifestyle Close to Nature in Vetto, Italy 🌱

The experience

Hello! I’m Erik, class of ’88. After years of working and traveling the world, I chose a new path: living closer to nature, guided by permaculture principles and a holistic approach to life. 🌍🌱 I’m looking for travelers and nature lovers interested in permaculture and alternative ways of living. Join me for a meaningful experience of learning, sharing and reconnecting with the land.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Most jobs are to do with the garden and the orchard, from planting out vegetables, tree planting, weeding, spreading compost, wood chipping, mulching, all depending on the time of year. More year round there's also some wood collecting, building footpaths, general maintanence and other minor projets, but also more artistic ones like wood carving and painting, or decorating. Creating beauty is something I value very much :)
In terms of accomodation, there's a hut next to the garden and a guest room in the main building. The hut has all it's needed for cooking and storing food, it has a compost toilet, a shower but no hot water (it's fairly warm in summer) but you can use the bathroom in the ground floor of the main building whenever needed.

Activities & Shift

Concerning the surroundings, there's a creek few hundred meters down the property, a nice waterfall one hour walk, many footpaths to explore every corner, and it's 20 minutes by car from the Pietra di Bismantova, beautiful place especially for rock climbers. There is a local bar 1 km from the house and a town with all services 10 km far.

Rules

Cooking tidying up and cleaning is a shared duty when eating together.

The internet connection is via hot-spot up to 220GB/month (fast enough for streaming movies). The phone providers that work well here are WindTre Iliad and Very.

The pick up location is Castelnovo Ne Monti where the bus from Reggio Emilia or La Spezia (longer route) can drop you off. From Reggio Emilia usually there's one leaving roughly every hour, the number 44

For any further information don't hesitate to contact me :)