🌱 Organic Garden Keeper in Beautiful Italy! 🌿

Help a sustainable project: 4 travelers confirmed that this host is actively contributing to a more sustainable future for everyone!
Higher chance of approval: This host has recently approved volunteers and is looking for more applications.
Connect with international travelers: 5 travelers recommend this host to meet travelers from all around the world
Connect with nature: 5 travelers recommend this experience for reconnecting with nature
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What you offer

25h

Hours per week: Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.

Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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What you get

Days off per week: Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.

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

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

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.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

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

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Support: Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.

Verified Host: This host has been verified by our team before joining the community.

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Availability

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Jan

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Stay at least: 3 weeks

Stay up to: 12 weeks

The Experience

We’re looking for someone with gardening experience or motivation to learn! Our organic veggie garden is transforming, with hands-on tasks: creating a self-sustaining garden, composting waste, and growing herbs, flowers, and veggies. We also have carrube trees: Oct–May field maintenance, Aug–mid-Sept collection. Hats and gloves provided; bring long pants and comfy shoes. For more info click on learn more.

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Requirements

Beginner English or Beginner Italian
Between 23 and 70 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Join the host in pursuit of these goals and contribute to building a better and more sustainable future for all.

Gender equality

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Responsible consumption and production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Life on land

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.

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6 Reviews

4.0

Host & Team

4.5

Hours & Tasks

4.0

Farm

4.5

Learning & Fun

4.0

How this experience will transform you

5 Meeting international travelers
5 Get in touch with nature
5 Meeting locals
4 Practicing English
4 Immersing in the local culture
2 Developing environmental awareness

This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals

3 12. Responsible consumption and production
3 15. Life on land
2 5. Gender equality

Valéria

Brazil

I had a really good time at the farm. I learned about sicilian cooking and flavours of the place( olives, capers, carrubo), about the local culture ( we went to the beach, tried arancini, gelati, visited Siracusa etc) Daria really wants to show Sicily for the voluntaries. Everyone there is like a family, warm, nice , funny. Sometimes I felt them like a caracters in a film. Maybe my experience could be better if my italian was better, but the english worked any way. I learned to adapt, to be more resilient too. I think a little bit more organization in the kitchen would be good .

3 months ago

Marius

Germany

My stay at the farm was phenomenal! Daria is one of the most loveliest and interesting persons I got to know in my life. A mix of the caring sicilian nonna and a bohemian cosmopolitan. With her you can talk not only sustainable gardening, but also theatre, history or spirtuality. She was very concerned with giving me and the other volunteers enough time off to relax from the sometimes intesive work, both with guests and in the land. I had the pleasure to immerse myself into sicilian culture and meet some of the most fascinating people. Would love to come back one day!

3 months ago

Benjamin

France

Great stay in the farm with Daria, her friends, and the other volunteers! Everybody is welcoming and kind, I could discover the Sicilian way of living, it was really great! :)

3 months ago

Radarani

Brazil

I had a beautiful experience at the farm with Daria, Giani, Gaetano and Marco, with the others volunteers Marius and Benjamin, and older volunteers who were there to visit, to help, to share!! The dogs Luigi and Dana, the cats and the chickens … the farm is a beautiful place, Daria is a strong woman who talks important historical and philosophical things and has fun stories. Is a wonderful place to be in the Sicilian culture. I learned a lot just being and listening Daria, Giani, Marco e Gaetano. I felt part of the family, and a lot thanks to Marius and Benjamin who were really nice time!!

3 months ago

Courtney and Gustavo

Argentina

Despite some good aspects like delicious food and the host, Daria, letting us borrow her car since there is zero public transport, we still shortened our stay from 3 weeks to 10 days. Some of the reasons included doing tasks not specified on the world packers page, lack of communication about working hours, witnessing Daria grope one of the other female volunteers during a lunch together. And on the morning of our departure, instead of a civilised goodbye, Daria threw the car keys at us then said, “ciao!” in an aggressive manner and walked off. We're really disappointed with this experience.

about 1 month ago

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