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Join us in a Nature Life project in Italy!

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The experience

We are an organic farm of 5 hectars in the Agrò Valley (Limina, Messina).
Our aim is to regenerate a life system starting from respecting nature, selfproducing organic food and using mostly products from our land. We produce extra virgin olive oil and have a vegetable garden where we grow many different types of greens. We want to live in harmony with nature and share our abundance with others. We sleep in tents and eat mostly vegetarian.

What you offer

25 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.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

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

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

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

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

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

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate Spanish

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Works and tasks may depend a lot on the season.
In general we need help in gardening and taking care of plants, picking fruits and transfomr them in good jams or other.
Sometime we host guests and events, so we could need help also in the cleaning of the tents or organizing the space for the events.
We share the task of cooking for everybody and cleaning dishes.
Some building and painting projects may arise using recicled materials.

Work time is not fixed and can really depend on personal avalabilities, wishes, needs and actual projects going on.
Normally we ask for 4-5 hours of help per day that can be arrangend day by day.
During time off it is possible to go to the small waterfall close by (Cascate dell'Aranciara), to the sea (15 minutes by car) or nearest villages (S. Teresa di Riva, Savoca, Taormina, etc) or for different hikes in the Peloritani mountains.

Activities & Shift

We look for people interested in sustainable projects, permaculture and organic farming, willing to learn, share and improve with us our project.

We are learning by doing, so we are not professionals but we like to experiment different techniques and different approaches to our daily activities, welcoming anybody who feels like joining us in our adventures.

Tasks and works are changing day by day depending on the season, needs and people present at the moment.

We ask for FLEXIBILITY and ADAPTATION to random situations and needs may happen at the moment.

English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Italian: Fluent

Rules

PLEASE, GIVE VERY MUCH ATTENTION AND RESPONSABILITY TO THIS: We accept pets if they get along with cats and can be kept under control. We have many cats and one dog and we love them very much :) Also, our neighbours have dogs, sheeps, cats, goats, chickens, pigs and other farm animals, so it is VERY important not to disturb them and not to enter into their property (some parts are not fanced).