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Harvesting lavender and playing music in the Tuscan countryside

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The experience

The property consists of a hotel and another house (Podere Pantaneto), where Alberto and the managers of the hotel live. The area is surrounded by vineyards, olive trees, lavender fields, and pure nature.

Volunteers will not be involved with the hotel activites but during these two weeks will take part in the lavender harvest and the making of essential oil. Many more activities including nights out to playing guitar at sunsets are included.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

1 day 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.

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.

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

Fluent English or Fluent Italian

Between 23 and 35 years old

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

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

The main help will be, taking care of the lavender field, veggie garden, the chicken and maintenance around the place. Apart from this picking fruits, making jam, picking olives, weeding, watering plants would be some more tasks to do. Depending on the season this will be discussed on the moment before you arrive.

Activities & Shift

First of all the place is beautiful and peaceful, so you can charge your batteries and gain a lot of energy back by staying in the pure nature surrounding you.
Having an after help wine with a phenomenal view. You will learn working on the lavender field taking care of the chickens, feeding or cleaning them etc. and help in the veggy garden, seeding/planting, pruning or harvesting. Of course there is plenty other stuff to do. The daily dose of help will be around 4 to 5 hours.

Rules

We get up early in the morning to avoid the heat. As part of the hours of help the volunteers will be asked to keep their rooms and public spaces (toilet, kitchen) tidy and to partecipate on the preparation on the meals we will have together.