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Hi, I am Elena, I live in Sicily after that I travelled and worked away from my island for a lot of years. I decided to come back, because I love this place, the land, the sky, the weather. Is a kind of lifestyle that I love, is slow, have a “super” good food, good wine, enjoy the life with simple things, everything around for me is amazing.
My project of lifestyle is to live in the countryside, cultivate a vegetable garden, give hospitality and promote my territory with typical food and wine, local products made by other farmers near us.
This is the Raw Sicily project: my choose of life, my dream, my lifestyle!
In this moment I am sharing my life with Avishai my partner of trip in the adventure.
Hi I'm Avishai and i'm gonna give you only a few words . i met Elena 3 years on this beautiful mountain and fell in love with her and this island. I've been 5 years in sicily after a period I spend in Europe as a juggling street artist. my passion in life is flow arts, playing music and observing nature. Another one my big passion is grow vegetables in my garden and trasform them into food. I like meeting new people who come in the path of your life for a reason and share joy together.
Last year we opened a non-profit cultural association in our farm, we make different events, retreats and hospitality for our members, generally on summer season but we do a lot and need a hand during the rest of the year too.
Feel free to look us up on social #Rawsicily. Ask us for more info.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
House sitting
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can live our life in the country field, get the real experience. Sure there are many skills that you will have the advantage of learning by this experience. We make different project and there are always many abilities that you can learn from basic stuff of daily life to the natural lifestyle in the countryside. How to take care of the nature, of chickens, of the garden, have daily responsibility, take care and grow vegetable garden, live in our camp of cultural association in sustainable values of life. Share our moments with our guest or friends, so have the opportunity to socialize in an international mood, keep the sense of community but also learn the integrality of your personality and be able to be independent, take a break from the caos of the city, learn different way to life, learn how to stay well with yourself, with your free time.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
end of FEBRUARY, MARCH and APRIL we want o create a nice team for prepare our garden and vegetable garden for the new season...
need help mostly for general maintenance before of the season and daily works , gardening, help in a planting vegetable garden, feed the animals prepare the place for the summer for our next retreats, events... we are lookin for somebody that want to be part and share this moment with us
We grow sesame, grain and a big vegetable garden, then we also make jars of conserved vegetables. We also started to build structures from different types of wood that we recycle from the area, we love to do it, if you have an idea or some wishes and you want to build something with the philosophy of reuse you are super welcome to share with us your project.
...we know after any experiences to host that we like and love to share time with people that are open with heart, open mind, independent, that likes give a hand with pleasure for live part of each of us essence in the project, that are able to stay but themself but also enjoy the time together, easygoing, flexible, that likes to learn fast new things, share knowledge, that enjoy live a simple life with enthusiasm and pure heart.
...if you feel inspired during reading our presentation, text to us your motivation and what do you think to aspect or you need from the experience, we will keep in touch, make a call or video call for more info and if the flow is in the right way it will be a pleasure to host you!
MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
we are looking for somebody that want enjoy the season there are many things to do, you can have many different skills you can learn many different skills so we are open we will see togheter what is going on :)
OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER we are off season
DECEMBER to FEBRUARY we are looking for somebody or maximum 2 people like a couple for house sitting and feed the animals.
We are looking for somebody that first of all, love and like our pets and nature, here you can live a full intense and lovely experience in a little house with wood eater, completely surrounded of nature, of course if you like to stay with yourself, if you need time for creating, read, watch a movie, hiking, for a long break to the city (the town are 20 min away and aren't connected with transporting, we will arrange it, if you have drive license or not for food or essential things that could be needed)
It could be great if you are looking for a place like this and accommodation for all the winter from December to February so we can know each other better during December, anyway we need to spend a bit of time togheder for explain, the daily stuff, habits of the house and our dogs, cats and chickens... this could be possible before the second week of january because we have this deadline.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Hebrew: Fluent
Italian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
We have a cozy and nice caravan for two people, you might share the caravan with somebody or we have two tents. We care that you feel good like at home in the best possible conditions we can offer.
What else ...
The place where we live is very quiet, totally immersed in nature, it’s really peaceful for those who love the quiet places, stay with themselves, with nature and walk; we are really close to Cavagrande del Cassibile, a natural reserve. The house is 20 min away from the town and there aren't transport.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
Yes, we have space for vans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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The animals were a highlight, especially Nana, the sweetest dog, and Boca,… read more
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The animals were a highlight, especially Nana, the sweetest dog, and Boca,… read more
She bring at home special good energy and good vibes. It’s easy live with her she give a hand for whatever we need, she is really sociable and also independent I was really happy and I enjoy her presence here, the moment that we share, our conversation about personal life and philosophy of life.… read more
Elena ha un bel progetto e passione per quel che fa. È sempre molto disponibile ed entusiasta delle idee che le vengono proposte.
Il posto è molto tranquillo. A 2 passi da lí, i panorami riempiono gli occhi di una natura spettacolare: difficile da immaginare in Sicilia.
Durante il mio soggiorno di 2 settimane i… read more
Grazie!
Mi ha aiutata con tanta pazienza e calma in un momento difficile del mio progetto, dove ci sono state veramente tante cose da fare e da parte mia anche momenti di stress e tensione ma avere vicino la presenza di Luca e Ben un altro "angelo" workaway, mi sono… read more
Non dimenticherò mai il suo contributo, in un momento iniziale e molto caotico dell mio progetto. Mi ha aiutata in tantissime cosema soprattutto mi ha supportata emotivamente ad affrontare le difficoltà, ad avere forza e coraggio, ad andare avanti. E' stato sempre pronto e disponibile a sostenermi emotivamente e lavorativamente,… read more
