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Hello, I’m Alexandra (Alex for short!) and over the past 20 years, my family has been fixing up a country house, cultivating an organic garden, and caring for olive trees.
Now that the kids have flown the nest, it’s just me. Any help maintaining the house is most welcome!
I am looking for a couple (preferably with own car) that can help with gardening, home DIY and general handiwork. You don’t have to be an expert, but someone with initiative and a who's ready to get stuck and get their hands dirty is the right fit for here.
The house and grounds are within a rustic estate and wooded parkland, near Chiusi in Central Italy, halfway between Roma and Firenze, Assisi and Siena. I’m close to the main north/south highway and rail service, putting all of central Italy within reach. -
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Leichte Gartenarbeit
Kreative Heimwerkerprojekte
Hausarbeiten
Leichte Instandhaltungsarbeiten
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Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
When the work is over, there are plenty of sights to see.
The house is 10 minutes from a central Tuscan train station putting all of central Italy within easy reach. The city centers of Roma, Firenze, Siena, Arezzo, Orvieto, Cortona, Assisi or Perugia can be easily reached by comfortable and inexpensive trains. You can walk to the bus stop in the morning and find the local café or bakery.
The estate I live on provides many lovely walks through native woodland. There are also a few old mountain bikes hanging around the shed. -
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What I am looking for is someone who enjoys the outdoors and is comfortable with manual labour. Creativity, initiative, and fresh ideas are encouraged
Your main tasks would be weeding, pruning, planting, and harvesting. Machinery handling is highly desired (primarily for cutting dead trees).
Spring is the time to overhaul the vegetable garden, so I would need someone who would be happy handing seedlings, creating tomato structures and installing shade cloths.
There may also be some casual indoor maintenance, but the focus of the work would be outside.
Don’t worry if a lot of this is new to you. I am more than willing to show you the ropes, I just need some extra hands!
I have a lot of experience with Workaway, so I recommend volunteers plan for stays of around a week. This gives both host and guest time to get to know each other without making too big a commitment. If it's a good fit, we can discuss extending your stay.
I usually ask for five hours a day on weekdays with weekends off for you to explore Italy. This has worked well in the past but can always be discussed further upon arrival. -
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You will have your own private room and bathroom with shower and a place set for you at the supper table even though you might be cooking for yourselves. You'll be treated with equal parts privacy and company. I offer free wi-fi and phone calls from my landline to the US and Europe.
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I am based in an old Italian farmhouse - rustic but comfortable. The rooms are plenty and spacious so I am happy to accommodate couples and pets. There is a gentle, outdoor cat to keep everyone company.
The household is as eco-friendly as I can make it: I save water (you might think obsessively), energy, cook from scratch, recycle and waste as little as I can. The water is heated by the sun and I now have an air-conditioning/heating heat-pump running off solar-generated electricity.
As an eco-friendly household, my diet is largely plant-based and as such, I only make plant-based food for my guests. I don't smoke.
I enjoy a friendly household: the first volunteers stayed with us twenty years ago, and every visitor since then has brought support, fun, laughter, and worldly experience to the family.
In terms of getting here, RyanAir flies from London directly to Perugia, which is an hour's drive away. The airports in Rome are about two and a half hours by car or train. Here in the country, it helps to have a car - rentals are available at the train station in Chiusi. However, with excellent rail service, it is not a necessity.
Please feel free to get in touch if this sounds like the job for you or with any questions and I will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible! -
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Wir besitzen Tiere
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Wir sind Raucher
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Familien möglich
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Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen
I own a cat, so any animal that isn't hostile.
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The house is lovely, with an amazing garden and a very nice & comfortable private bedroom & bathroom for workawayers. Amazing views all around, so even while pulling weeds or digging in the garden you can enjoy the … read more
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The house is lovely, with an amazing garden and a very nice & comfortable private bedroom & bathroom for workawayers. Amazing views all around, so even while pulling weeds or digging in the garden you can enjoy the … read more
I funnily enough befriended Thomasina on a bus in Greece. I told her I would be traveling in Italy in September and was looking for a workaway. Her … read more
She's Scottish so she's practical, sensible, funny, involved, educated, independent, helpful, a remainer (yes!), and very seriously missed. She know's her films and can recommend a good evening's entertainment. I can't explain the … read more
Thank you so much for an amazing introduction to Workaway. You have created such an impressive legacy in the fabric of the building and inspired me with your vision and creativity, as I'm sure you have so many other workawayers! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, wine, evening swims and delicious meals with me! You went … read more
I'm so touched by such lovely feed back, thank you so much it was a pleasure : )
I had the most amazing time with David and the other WorkAway guests, unfortunately I missed out on meeting Alex and their daughters. Maybe if I'm lucky enough to visit again!
If you are looking for great Workaway hosts, David & … read more
Hey hosts! If you've read this far in her profile, well; you're probably never going to … read more
To prospective hosts, Emilia is from Mendoza in eastern Argentina under … read more
I was doing some scrubing, not too hard!
Grazie Alex and David, I hope to see you again!
Anita worked with us before "feedback" was available on the Workaway site. … read more
i felt completely welcomed by this family who shared their skills, passions, and ideas with me. they have been working hard on their beautiful home for years and it shows. the grounds are filled with olive trees and … read more
Zoe and Alex are self starters, self sufficient, polite, enthusiastic, encouraging and imaginative. … read more
We will remember : the wonderful place; the sun; the old and charming villages and particularly Città della Pieve we visited together. We will also remember: the ball-games at the swimming-pool with the girls; the hat-thief called Thomasina; the French lessons … read more
Work was mostly spent lime-washing the basement walls and with plenty of check-ins to make sure we weren't liming ourselves … read more
To any prospective host: … read more
Jenny Kessler came with a little bonus in shape of … read more
The house and … read more
The whole project and the set up is facinating and continually evolving, there is never a shortage of challenges and experiences to be found and I … read more
Although I had fun running around pruning olive trees, I really enjoyed being able to get … read more
