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༄ Welcome at offgrid and suistanable living in the abundant arms of Nature!
WHO ARE WE
We are Francesca, Sergio and our daughter (8 yo), working to build step by step an enlarged soul family based on art and nature connection, kids' first.
We live in a four hectares land 5 km from a tiny town in Lazio, near to both sea and mountain, next to Tuscany and 2 h from Rome.
A magic woodland with neolithic sacred spots, wild animals, an olive grove and many other species all around, and a river at few minutes of sloping hike.
We have done our little house with what we had: good friends, soil, straw, stones and some recycle. It's made accordingly to principles of permaculture and is off-the-grid (solar electricity, wood stove, compost toilets, rainwater collecting system, phytodepuration, etc).
We are open minded, always learning and taking ecologic care in every aspect of our life.
Sergio makes extravergine olive oil, veggies, fermented food, greenwood carving, is a Wimoff practitioner, loves table tennis, literature, cinema, hiking in the woods discovering ancient caves.
Francesca enjoys basketry, bushcrafts, vegan cooking, dancing, stearing at the nature, experiment.
Our kid is a wonderful soul, very generous, playful, respectful, enthusiast; she loves to cook, do art and craft, help, seeking for specific things in nature to use, role play with costumes and props and she is studying guitar, macramé, crochet and yoga also with guests willing to give her lessons.
WHO WE CAN HOST
This is a place for people with some skills, comfortable with wild camping lifestyle, independent, energetic and strong, on a conscious path of personal growth, playful, generous, with sense of humor and able to express fully their emotions and needs and to communicate fluently in English and/or Italian.
Our daughter is single child homeschooler and a social being so she is really happy with people around that are emotionally and playfully availble for her and the childrens' fairy world.
We cannot host dogs sorry.
While here we ask not to eat meat nor cheese if possible. Eggs only from our safe sources.
We can't host regular smokers.
DEAL
We welcome supporting helpers with free accomodation and organic plant based food supply for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Cooking and dishwashing chores are part of the community life.
The community kitchen is outdoor (with a small shelter), next to the caravan.
WORLDSCHOOLING HUB
We are also happy to offer space to resonating families with kids 7-10 yo that want to spend here some months (with their own van) or even settle in the area buying a land.
Our attitude with children is based on: love; respect; nature as the teacher and adults as facilitators of discoveries; empathic communication; create learning contexts from concrete experiences; the need to let children play in a free way... but also to offer them the possibility of creative and enriching guided experiences.
HOW TO REACH US
At the train stops of Viterbo (1 h train from Rome check Trenitalia.it) you can take a bus (Cotralspa.it) that will bring you to our town (name in private message) in 1 hour. Attention! Don't travel on Sundays, check timetables before booking the train and call the Cotral to double check timetables. Italian buses can be a bit confusing.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Vegetarian or vegan
Sustainability
Self development
Events & social
Farming
Charity work
Culture
Gardening
DIY & crafts
Books
Art & design
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Hiking
Dancing
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learn from Nature in its wildesty and from conscious humans how to live respectfully thanksful to permaculture and our experience in eco-building, off grid technologies, veganism, olive tree respectful care, brewing, fermenting, wild weaving, sewing...
From our child you can also learn how to live simply, laugh and rest!
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are a community, we love to share, our land is big and our welcome too. We are very grateful that you come with the will to give us an hand as a part of your experience with us!
We are hosting most likely volunteers that can offer to kids meaningful activities like music lessons, singing, dance, yoga, art&craft, theatre, role and creative play, or anything else you are passionate about.
In addition to this, help may be requested while we are dealing with wood, gardening and other practical activities.
The thing we love the most is when people are really part of the community showing up for tasks waiting to be done without waiting someone to ask... We love to help each others on a spontaneous will too.
In our spare time we can share some skills we have acquired over the years from craft to plant world insights, nutrition principles, meditation and all the other numerous activities requested to live in nature, finding our own space in it with respect. We can also sew toghether.
Please share any skill or preferred activity of yours, and your Instagram if you have one :)
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Accommodation
Please be aware that this place is abundant in nature beauties, not in consumerists' comforts.
ACCOMODATIONS AND FACILITIES
🚌 An artistic caravan with a queen size bed, a table and sofa that can become a second queen size bed, usb recharge system and electricity (but no heating system by now).
🚐 Flat park spaces for vans.
⛺ Areas for your tents under the trees.
🪞Common outdoor shower, sink and sheltered compost toilet. The shower usually has warm walter but better waiting for least a couple of hours of sun.
🫕"BarBosco" community kitchen - outdoor next to the caravan.
🔥Two fireplaces to chill.
🎒Please bring with you:
- towels and sleeping bag (we can provide one extra blanket)
- waterproof boots and jacket
- trekking shoes and clothes
- swimsuit
- headlamp or a good torch
What else ...
This territory, called "Tuscia", has attracted us for its unpredictable landscape, contested between woods, rivers, lakes and small villages and sites rich of history. And although, as everywhere, modernity also risks here to pass as a standardizing roller, for those who know how to look carefully the traces of the past are still visible, thing that gives depth to our gaze and a less abstract perception of the present.
Please take the time necessary to discover this straordinary territory full of ancient history and wild nature!
We are sorrounded by woods ("Riserva Naturale Selva del Lamone") with waterfalls and pathways to Neolithic and Etruscan archeological sites (Rofalco, Castro, Vulci);
There are free thermal springs at 20 min by car and at 40 min you can reach the famous thermal pools of Saturnia and San Filippo;
There are also beatiful waterfalls (Cascata del Salabrone etc.), rivers (Fiora) and lakes (Lago di Bolsena, Lago di Mezzano).
If you are interested in little medieval towns in 20-30 minutes you can see Pitigliano, Bolsena and Sorano.
The sea! Only 30 minutes from wonderful beaches of Monte Argentario
If you look for mountains we have Monte Amiata, 50 min far.
In this area there are also interesting local tiny museums (search for "Simulabo musei").
Our town in itself it's a very small town, but nice and usually welcoming.
Means of trasport:
• By feet: you can hike in the woods, go to the river next to our land, observe yourself in peace and silence... or go to town in 40 min.
• By bycicle: you can use ours.
• By bus: from town you can take a bus and go exploring surrounding areas.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have plenty of space for campervans and tents and an outdoor compost toilet + shower and an outdoor community kitchen with canopy.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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In two weeks we not only learned everything there is to know about olive harvesting, we also had a lot of fun and felt at home in the beautiful spaces that Francesca and Sergio have created in the middle of nature. It is nice to see how meals can be prepared with respect for nature and how positive the effects of worldschooling… read more
We will warmly welcome him anytime as a friend, with trust and love. Grateful for meeting him!
we were able to build some nice stuff and do a lot of fun things, including fire and meals in the evening!
i totally recommend and already miss my time with them and the other family from Germany who was staying… read more
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In two weeks we not only learned everything there is to know about olive harvesting, we also had a lot of fun and felt at home in the beautiful spaces that Francesca and Sergio have created in the middle of nature. It is nice to see how meals can be prepared with respect for nature and how positive the effects of worldschooling… read more
We will warmly welcome him anytime as a friend, with trust and love. Grateful for meeting him!
we were able to build some nice stuff and do a lot of fun things, including fire and meals in the evening!
i totally recommend and already miss my time with them and the other family from Germany who was staying… read more
I helped Sergio with the olive harvest and did other tasks in their field. The work is not hard and 5h/ day, 5 days/ week.
They… read more
I was there with another workawayer, so we were a team helping with the olive trees, the roof dismantling, and some external earth plaster. We also cooked fresh picked amarena cherries into jam!
They showed us beautiful biopools, lakes,… read more
Hugo and us have been workawaying for one month, and we have had a wonderful human expercience. He has been deeply kind and smiling, bringing in our daily life extra fun and art... and a good help washing our always waiting dishes and chopping wood for the stove in this cold winter. He… read more
We mostly worked in upgrading the area around the roulotte (the kitchen and roof) but also helped in the vegetable garden, pruning olive trees and clearing… read more
