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come help us with our family farm and enjoy Italian nature

The experience

Family farm

It is a small plot of land near the sea located in Diano Marina, where there are olive trees with which oil is made for personal use and brine. Sometimes the olive tree strips are cleaned of herbs, the olive trees are arranged, the dry stone walls are pruned or rebuilt or the olives are harvested to make oil. If you want to love nature and the earth and want to use more when necessary for a strictly organic project.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

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

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

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!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

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

Requirements

Beginner English or Beginner Italian

Over 22 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

create a completely organic vegetable garden like the rest of the crops that are CCPB certified. Volunteers participate in the work relating to the vegetable garden, gardening, cutting wood when in season, restoring dry stone walls. A later activity is related to the arrangement of rural buildings, even if it is done according to ecological techniques and the use of most used materials. The beach is a few minutes walk away so you can go for a swim in your free time.
One leaves from the farm located in Piacenza, 12 km from the city, reachable by bus. Sometimes we go there together to do some work. In this case, when you are on a bus, it is possible to go to the Trebbia river in the summer period during the middle of the week, since there are some very suggestive beaches to relax after a busy week with a nice swim. There are no farm animals, but only a few dogs and cats.

Activities & Shift

helping for 5 hours a day