🌱 Organic Garden Keeper in Beautiful Italy! 🌿

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.

What you offer

25 hours of help 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

What you get

2 days off per week

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.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

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

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

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

Program Details

We are looking for someone with gardening experience or a strong willingness to learn how to manage an organic veggie garden. Our garden is undergoing an exciting transformation, and there's plenty of hands-on work to do! As part of our sustainable garden project, you'll help create a self-sustaining veggie garden, turn organic waste into warm compost, and grow flowers, herbs, and fresh produce.

We have a field with many carrube trees: from October to May we need help to do maintenance work in the field. Between August and mid-September, we need help to collect the carrube. We have hats and gloves so you can work more comfortably, but we recommend you bring long pants and comfortable shoes for the work, as there are shins.

Activities & Shift

The hours are not fixed; some days we work more and some days less, depending on the weather and daily tasks that could also be housekeeping and cooking.

Our food is delicious, we try to cook with fresh and organic food and products from the garden and eggs from our chickens. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included in the volunteering but everyday we organise who prepares it.
We communicate on a daily basis to see what tasks each of us is doing.

We have a meditation room, where yoga or spiritual gatherings are often held, and you can participate if you wish. Also, if you want to use it to teach something, or use only for you, you can do it!

I am also available to recommend places in Sicily for you to visit on your days off. Sometimes, if you know how to drive, a car is available 🌍✨

Rules

We are smokers, so smoking is allowed inside the house.
Volunteering at Vinciucci is like being at home. We don't just say this because we want a homey atmosphere. But because we always start the day together and usually have lunch and dinner together, unless there are exceptions and/or we don't want to, but we always let each other know in advance.