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Description
We are living in a tourist area along the South-east coast of the Sicily. Here the sea is splendid, the water is crystal clear and clean, the beach of fine and golden sand. There are many reefs and natural area. We have a farm with lemon gardens, olives trees, vineyard and a lot of tropicals fruits (close to Noto Marina. We are preserving the original features and natural character with stone walls, old well, a lot of different fruits and trees.
We have some animals: one donkey, some bees, some chickens and geese. We tried to respect the nature starting from the way to take energies. We have photovoltaics and solars panels. Hour agricultural activities is bio. We also rent our 6 accommodation to the tourist.
We always need some small mason work, wood works, painting.
Eco home,, eco-friendly villa:
heating and cooling with heat pump, storm windows, double glazing, 100% utilization of energy saving lamps, photovoltaic panels produce more than 100% of the energy absorbed by consumption, waste recycling, composter, burning of pruning of our trees as fuel for stove,
During your stay you can harvest for free: bio lemons (all year around), oranges, grapes, pomegranate, grapefruit, white mulberry, kaki, plums, apricots. Some tropical fruit: bananas, feijoa, guava, white sapote, mango, avocado, macadamia, water berries. Vegetable: tomatoes, aubergines, peppers, lettuce, zucchini and more.
We have a small bio production of honey, extra virgin olive oil and “Nero D’Avola” wine.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
travellers benefit from a cultural exchange and could they learn Italian
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
All year around we need a maintenance of grass and garden, painting walls, cleaning home, general maintenance.
From 15 September to 15 October: olive harvest
From December to March-April: lemons harvest
The next goal is restore some dry stone wall in the property. Build a new fence for donkey
Please contact us for more info and web sites addresses.
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Italien: CourantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
Hébergement
The accommodation can be an apartment at our place a entire house or Villas
Autres infos...
We are a family of 4 people (2 adults born in 1967, 1 girl born in 2001, one boy born in 2006)
We teach in the school. We have a 3 floor home with apartments sea side and two "Villas" with pools in the country, near the beach, only 350 mt. The land around is about 25,000 sqm.
The apartment and the two villas are for rent, normally weekly all year around. Half of our guests are from Germany the rest come from all Europe. We want try this barter. Little works for hospitality.
We will offer you, like for our tourist guest : all furnished apartment, electricity, gas, water, linens, towels, air condition or heating, wi-fi area for free, bike. The apartment is sea view, 40 meters from the sand beach.
We can't promise food because we offer a high value apartment. But you can try our wine...and the product of our land (lemon, almonds, olive oil,...)
For now the work consist helping us with maintenance of house (painting gates, fences, walls, woods), cleaning and washing in the homes, and some others little gardening works (wood cutting..). We have a lemons farm then we need harvest the lemons. .
We look forward to your application...
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
from 100 to 180 MB wifi connection (in the different place where I can accommodate workaway)
Espace pour garer des vans
Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Deux
Nombre d'heures attendues
5 a day for 5 days
Feedback (6)
Gioacchino and Benedetta are lovely people and excellent hosts. from the beginning they were welcoming and kind, always willing to help and solve any problems.
we had great accommodations and really appreciated the… read more
It is a wonderful place, quiet… read more
Given that they already have a lot of skills, they are also very quick to learn new… read more
The place is just like paradise. Gioacchino created a very big nice and lush garden, full of (mainly) tropical fruits and nuts. All year round there is some fruit or nut ready to eat straight from the tree. We started with mandarins, oranges and… read more
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Gioacchino and Benedetta are lovely people and excellent hosts. from the beginning they were welcoming and kind, always willing to help and solve any problems.
we had great accommodations and really appreciated the… read more
It is a wonderful place, quiet… read more
Given that they already have a lot of skills, they are also very quick to learn new… read more
The place is just like paradise. Gioacchino created a very big nice and lush garden, full of (mainly) tropical fruits and nuts. All year round there is some fruit or nut ready to eat straight from the tree. We started with mandarins, oranges and… read more
Given that they already have a lot of skills, they are also very quick to learn new… read more
Aside from Gioacchino's generous and helpful nature, we also got to profit from his knowledge of Sicily and his advice on what to see like Noto, Syracusa, Modica, Etna... And also what to eat!! Like Modica's typical… read more
