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Live with an Italian family and help us with permaculture tasks!

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The experience

We're an Italian family, living in a small stone house in Emilia Romagna region, a place surrounded by forests, mountains and rivers. It is a perfect spot for trekking, climbing, and skiing. We like cooking homemade fresh vegetable, prepare pizza, bread and cake (in our wood oven), also to pick some berries, flowers and mushrooms. We need help, depending on the season, with farming, permaculture gardening, bees and some building tasks.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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

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

Additional fee required

Amount: € 3 Per day

Description: We ask 3€ a day to sustain the extra costs and laundry service.

What you get

2 days off per week

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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 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.

Requirements

Beginner Spanish or Beginner English

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

I expect from volunteers a good exchange and collaboration. For me, the ideal volunteers are dynamic people, with a desire to learn activities in organic farming and share knowledge and culture. We can offer a camping space for tents during summer and spring, and a bed inside our small house during winter. We live a really simple life, and it is all about the experience and share things.

Activities & Shift

The activities we do with the volunteers are many and varied, connected to organic and biodynamic agriculture, beekeeping, harvesting and processing of wild fruits and herbs, growing vegetables and small fruits, selling products in the farmer's local markets.