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Host rating
100 %
Last replied
24 Apr 2024
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100.0 %
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Description
Son, wife and father estate owners. Both son and father worked in tourist industry and now run our own lettings business , doing everything ourselves including looking after the land and our two dogs. We have lots of land and therefore there are many things to do, from olives harvesting to wood cutting etc.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
First and foremost picking olives is a skill that once acquired you can practice anywhere meaning you could pick up extra help/workaway opportunities , learn italian, an authentic experience in the Tuscan countryside unlike any other.
Help
Starting 01/11 for about a week in one of the most beautiful areas of Tuscany half-way between Florence and Siena to experience the 'real' Tuscan/Italian life with the possibility of visiting all the most interesting art cities all within a short radius of the house we need olive pickers, the harvest starts approx beginning of first week of November about 5/6 days depending on the weather and the number of pickers.
If you have the following skills and would be interested in staying longer to help us with maintenance mostly woodwork that would be a plus. Woodworking, gardening, wood sawing (logs for the fire) general handyman.
We offer free accomodation and food which most of the time we cook for you, exception made for breakfast. You must be dog lovers ,this would definitely suit someone who is already in Europe and particularly in the France/Italy area to reduce your travelling expenses. If you don't have your private transportation we will be able to pick you up on arrival and drop you off on departure.
Please only reply if you are in good physical condition and like hard work! Harvesting is quite a hard job.
Look forward to hearing from you for a Tuscan adventure.
Marzio
Cellole
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Accommodation
Cottage with all mod cons.good internet
What else ...
You will need your own transport to get around sightseeing etc. For arrival and departure we will be able to pick you up.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
25 hours max
Feedback (12)
Always up for a chat and also great in sharing ideas and giving valid suggestions. I highly recommend him to other hosts!
It has been a pleasure to have them and I highly recommend them to other hosts.
There are a lot of olive trees and with our equipment the work was tireing but not physically hard. Also the team was great and when you have someone to talk to the time passes faster. Furthermore we got to see how the oil was made and tasted… read more
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Always up for a chat and also great in sharing ideas and giving valid suggestions. I highly recommend him to other hosts!
It has been a pleasure to have them and I highly recommend them to other hosts.
There are a lot of olive trees and with our equipment the work was tireing but not physically hard. Also the team was great and when you have someone to talk to the time passes faster. Furthermore we got to see how the oil was made and tasted… read more
I highly recommend her to any other host!
Very clean,discreet and always on time,has many personal values and job skills.
The food was excellent! Marzio had prepared the menus in advance according to the tastes of each of us and complied with… read more
The hospitality, the food and fun you will experience in this place is beyond anything.
We had a week full of sunshine and cultural exchange, the landscape around the beautiful house is astonishing and as good as the pictures, of the Toscana… read more
Very hard worker and very happy to help.
Definitively recomended!
I met some awesome people (and two awesome dogs), spent the evenings drinking wine, sharing stories and having great laughs. Both Marzio and his father are very… read more
Ps: The food was amazing! There was no meal that wasnt great;)
Thank you so much for letting… read more
Eating with the family for lunch and dinner was fantastic, multiple courses of tasty dishes by Adela with… read more
Sometimes in your life the right people turn up at the right time to give you a helping hand when you most need it, this is the best way to describe Dori & Norbi's stay with us.
Quite honestly we were starting to despair of finding the sort of help we needed picking the olives this season as it was getting quite late, all of a sudden a request… read more
The first week we picked the olives, a thing that they had never done before and were quick to learn, they can now add this skill to their c.v. They came to the mill with us and we explained all the process that leads to the oil being extracted and then once home they tasted it on… read more
We arrived in time for the olive harvest and spent 3 and a half days harvesting the crop. We didn't mind working outside of the recommended 5 hours because we loved… read more
