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We lately moved out to the beautiful countryside of Kalotaszeg in the village Magyarkapus (Capusu Mare) from Cluj - quite a big city, the capital of Transylvania. We run a lavender business from fieldwork at our plantation, through harvesting and preparing, to manufacturing an endless number of products out of lavender. This includes gastronomy, wellness, natural remedies, design and decoration as well as crazy ideas for new ways of usage. Besides lavender an increasing number of healing plants find their place on our field and on the surrounding hills.
After falling in love with the village Capusu Mare and its surroundings, we decided to leave behind the city, so we bought a mansion with 900 sqm land. A house with a family history, a beautiful yard, vineyard, barn, orchard and the best neighbors you can ever imagine welcomed us and wait for care, restoration and love. In this process and environment we welcome your help in so many ways.
In exchange we can offer you the spiritual richness of working at the countryside coming together with harmony, love, nature, honest people. As a bonus you can teach us something we don't know. Accommodation, very good and delicious food, the opportunity of learning romanian and hungarian languages and cuisine, as well as nice talks are basic goods at our place.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Help with Eco Projects
Help around the house
Art Projects
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The historical region of Kalotaszeg is almost untouched by 21st century's technical and urban development. A multicultural environment where honesty, open-heartness are traditionally kept even nowadays, Friendly, welcoming villagers interact with you with kindness and stability. You can learn here the oldest practices in agriculture, housekeeping and traditional way of living, most of all the basics of true and honest life values. Also the dialect is kept alive, as well as traditional costumes. The surrounding mountains hide beautiful hiking trails, woods full of mushrooms, brooks and small wild animals.
Help
Permaculture, building natural home, stovebuilding, landwork on the lavender field, renovating/transforming a barn into a house, landscaping, gardening, watering
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Hungarian: Fluent
Romanian: Fluent
German: Beginner
French: Beginner
Accommodation
By your choice: separate room in the main house, in hay in the barn or in a tent in the orchard. Bathroom with WC and outside toilet are both available.
I'm so much surprised of the high number of those youth who face allergic problems and who are vegan, it's something completely new for me, here we don't have so many allergic people as well as only a few of us are vegan, and even those are not that strict - as far as I know. So I'm really open to this subject to see how can you manage and what are the solutions. Probably the food for those of you with allergies will be prepared and treated by yourself, as I have no experience in this and of course none of us wants to create problems. Thank you.
What else ...
The village Capusu Mare (Magyarkapus) is 25 km distance from Cluj (the nest of well-known international festivals such as TIFF, UNTOLD, Electric Castle, STREETFOOD), on route E60. Bus or hitchhike available any time. In the immediate surroundings we have beautiful hiking possibilities, within 10 km are the mountains of Gilau and lakes, within 50 km gorges and natural reservations, spa.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Nous avons passé chez vous 2 très belles semaines. Nous avons adoré planter des arbres et prendre soin des lavandes. Vous étiez notre première expérience roumaine et vous nous avez votre… read more
From the very beginning they were easy to communicate with and helped me a lot with feeling comfortable once arriving in Romania. They picked me up in Cluj and drove me to their home about 30 minutes away. Once I… read more
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Nous avons passé chez vous 2 très belles semaines. Nous avons adoré planter des arbres et prendre soin des lavandes. Vous étiez notre première expérience roumaine et vous nous avez votre… read more
From the very beginning they were easy to communicate with and helped me a lot with feeling comfortable once arriving in Romania. They picked me up in Cluj and drove me to their home about 30 minutes away. Once I… read more
From the moment we met to the moment we left, we were treated with wonderful hospitality. We very much enjoyed staying at their home in the countryside, surrounded by beautiful mountains and tiny villages. We spent our working days out on the field… read more
I am sending you greetings and big hug from Prague.
I am really happy I could be part of your family. I enjoyed my stay a lot, I can not say anything bad. I had so relaxing time there. I liked a job in a lavender farm, playing games with Karma, I even learned how make a soap:wink: I miss the… read more
I spent around 10 days with Kriszta and Katyu, and enjoyed it greatly. They're both excellent people, very welcoming and incredibly nice. I arrived late in the evening the first day, and they met me at the airport, which was very kind of them! And they are always like that,… read more
Thank you for your help, greetings from more than 2000 Lavender girls and… read more
Krisztina and Katyu are lovely host who really want you to feel like home.
After the weeding work it was great to have dinner together, especially the barbecues were amazing… read more
His hard work helped out 2000 girls to see the sun again. Lavender girls, which escaped from weed thanks to his serious work.
We had a great time together, we wish to see… read more
I worked in the fields mostly hoeing weeds, which was really enjoyable due to their great company and the really nice scenery around the farm. Krisztina is an amazing cook… read more
