Help with projects on our eco farm in Umbria, Italy

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  Hi, we are Jordie, Yasmine, Nour and Blu
  
  Six years ago Jordie returned to the central Italian countryside after almost 20 years away and abroad working as anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, reporter and transmedia author. After leaving the countryside at 18, he lived and studied in Rome, then left for the UK and during those years also lived shorter periods in Peru, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Madagascar, Cape Verde and Belgium. After many travels he decided to come back to Ficulle, where he grew up, a little medieval town of 1500 inhabitants in the Umbrian hills.
  
  Yasmine, from the port city of Livorno, is a professional artist printmaker with extensive experience in Italy and the UK. She studied art in Florence and in London where she lived for 10 years. Five years ago she started to build her life with Jordie here.
  
  Nour was born in August 2022, a beautiful little girl with a strong character, who will take you into her cheerful whirlwind when you come to stay with us.
  
  Blu was born in October 2024, a joyful little boy who's story still has to write itself :-)
  
  Italy is a beautiful but sometimes complicated country to live in, but here is where we decided we want to live a life geared towards quality, surrounded by nature, animals, organic homegrown food and so on.
  
  We live in a country house and run an organic farm. We grow truffles, hazelnuts, hemp, artichokes and much more, we have a vegetable garden running all year round and a fruit orchard. The place is surrounded by woodland and a river runs just hundred meters away. The house and surroundings are slowly shaping up, but work is always around the corner and we are looking for a few people that want to spend time here to give us a hand :-)
  
  Having travelled and lived abroad for a long while we now fluently speak Italian, English and Spanish, Jordie also speaks German, his French is decent and he has some basics in Portuguese.
  
  Unfortunately we can only accept workawayers willing to stay for at least one month, as it always takes time for everyone to adapt and we think shorter periods will not allow for the right time to have a fruitful exchange for both hosts and workawayers.
  
  We give priority to workawayers that come as a couple and usually host one couple at a time, but sometimes, in busier periods of the year when we need some extra help, we might host up to 4 people.
  
  We have 2 lovely dogs, 3 cats and 11 chicken. We prefer not to host people with pets, so it doesn’t get too crowded.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet

  House sitting
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Here we hope to share the cultural identity of these hills and valleys shaped by medieval city states in continuous war with each other, leaving a landscape dotted by castles and forts, walled towns sitting on cliffs and antique churches a bit everywhere. Squeezed among the Tuscany of Florence and the Lazio region of Rome, Umbria, dubbed the green heart of Italy, inherits the cultural and architectonic influence of the better know cities and the rolling hills famous in Tuscany, but in our opinion is more authentic in its agricultural traditions, customs and relationship with the land.
  
  We will share all our knowledge regarding living in the coutryside and different things can be learned depending on the season and the work that needs doing. Work can go from gardening to hazelnut harvest, from tending the growing hemp to preparing limoncello, from collecting wild edible vegetables to cooking something tasty from our vegetable garden. Moreover Jordie has a 15 years experience in the media environment, while Yasmine is a brilliant printmaker, so we definitely can share a few professional tips.

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  Ajuda Au Pair

  Mais detalhes podem ser encontrados aqui

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  We constantly need some help with a bit of everything, tending the vegetable garden and the animals, pruning, general maintenance, cooking and cleaning, gardening, chopping wood and get stones off the fields, welding, carpentry, photography and web design for some projects we have in mind and sometimes a bit of babysitting if you're up for it.
  
  Living and working in the countryside often means to go with the seasons and the weather. Being here in spring, summer, autumn or winter will change the tasks at hand.
  
  At the moment the main work revolves around a new truffle plantation we are setting up. At the moment we are finishing the irrigation system, but we also still need to finish building the fences, remove stones, tend the little trees and cut the grass in the fields.
  
  Moreover there is work with the vegetable garden, tending the plants, harvesting and processing preserves. We need help around the house, with cooking, cleaning and a bit of babysitting.
  
  Now in winter we need to cut wood, prune the hazelnut and fruit orchard, do some painting and maintenance.
  
  Unfortunately we can only accept workawayers willing to stay for at least one month, as it always takes time for everyone to adapt and we think shorter periods will not allow for the right time to have a fruitful exchange for both hosts and workawayers.
  
  We give priority to workawayers that come as a couple and usually host one couple at a time, but sometimes, in busier periods of the year when we need some extra help, we might host up to 4 people.

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  Idiomas

  Alemão: Fluente
  Inglês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Fluente
  Italiano: Fluente
  Francês: Intermediário
  Português: Iniciante

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  Acomodação

  We have 2 extra big rooms with private bathroom that are available for workawayers.
  Food is obviously provided and usually we all eat together as a big Italian family :-)
  We are vegetarians and the food we offer is often from our garden. We don’t mind if you want to eat and keep meat or fish in the fridge, just we won’t offer it on our menu.
  We usually ask workawayers to cook for everybody for dinner and keep the kitchen tidy, while we cook for everyone at lunch. So we can all contribute to our shared meals and share recipes and our culinary cultures.

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  Algo mais...

  Being in the countryside, having a car is a plus, so that you can be independent. If you have no car it is easy to get here by train to the Fabro-Ficulle train station, which is a 10 min drive from our place and we can easily pick you up. We can obviously drive you to town when you need.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  Este anfitrião indicou que adora hospedar nômades digitais.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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