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Farm sitting at our permaculture project in Italy

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The experience

Are you a Plant person or someone that deeply desires to connect back to Mother Nature?
Do you love spending time in a natural environment full of beings more than in cities stuffed with loads of people and pollution?
Are you able to see the Divine surrounding the universe and living in every creature?
We're looking for experienced farm sitters and helpers, only people who have really experienced farm life, which have no need for residence permit

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Additional fee required

Amount: € 25 Per week

Description: for the food we don't produce and to cover basic costs

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.

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.

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

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner Italian

Between 23 and 44 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Main practical activities of the season:
general maintenance of the common spaces and of our veg gardens and orchard, seasonal fruit harvesting eating, processing and drying.

Activities & Shift

The work-learning exchange:

Being a volunteer or a collaborator doesn't strictly mean working a certain number of hours in exchange for food and stay, but a co-living within an environment where we try to keep humans within Nature's boundaries, where Plants and Animals share the space and time, energy and life, with and for us.
We sometimes eat local meat but mostly plants, we respect them and nourish them while they do the same keeping us alive and healthy.
The right attitude towards the activities that we do is taking a selfless Political and Spiritual action into this limited lifespan.

beside this we might need your help with:

-keeping the place if we're away to our other farm or for other reasons (we cannot leave the farm on it's own, animals and gardens never go on "holidays" !)
-cleaning all around and keep the space tidy and neat!
-play with Nuri and teach him your language

Rules

🥗🍲🍛 Please don't apply if you are not happy and able to cook for yourself and others, from the seasonal foods available in our gardens and using the organic legumes, cereals and ingredients that we get from local producers. (we cook and do dish washing in shifts!)

💧👕🧺we don't have a washing machine, just hand washing 👐🏽

🐟🧼🐸All the waters flow into the phytoremediation so please don't bring soaps, toothpaste and chemical products that are not biodegradable.

Salvo is committed in a path of worship of the "invisible" trough the "visible", and veneration, meditation and devotion following the spiritual teachings of the Sufi master Shirdi Sai Baba and the manifestation of Nature in the visible aspect of Mother Kali trough the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the examples of many other saints and spiritual teachers from many spiritual traditions.
Welcomed are spiritua