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Hello everyone.
This is Andreas, Peggy, and our three year old Dimitra, we live in our six-acre farm in harmony, enjoying the beauty and the presents of natural life.We care to share what is going on here with other people. If you would like to visit our home please READ CAREFULLY THE WHOLE TEXT and ask yourself
- if you understand what is going on here and
- if you find all of it attractive to you
This way you will only spend 10 minutes of your time and not the two weeks of the minimum visit that we accept
Our house is a Caravan. Around that there are an open living room - kitchen, a geodesic dome toolhouse, a chicken coop, apiary, nursery, kitchen gardens, water harvesting systems, composting systems, and the land is full of young trees and wild cereal field areas
The farm is equipped with a 200lt solar water heater for hot water all year long, outdoor composting toilet, solar panels for power autonomy in 12V, bicycle for visits to the nearest village or rides around the area,
The nearest village (2km) is called Arla. It has a mini market, a bakery, grill house, 3 café restaurants with free wifi, a pharmacy and a tool shop. The nearest city with a full market is Kato Achaia (8 km). Even though the farm is relatively close to the sea there is no sea view. However from here, one can see the beautiful mountains of Peloponnese, Erymanthos, Santameri, Mazaraki, and Movri.
Here, we work on:
Natural Farming, Permaculture, Natural Building, Chicken Breeding, Apiary, Tree nursing, Eco-Community, Ecology, Autonomy and non-monetary management, Mycology, Upcycling, Music, folk art and crafts.
We need people that after reading the above will feel like spending some of their time here in order to interact with us and with the farm’s elements.
We as administrators of the farm ask for:
-RESPECT for all kinds of life that cohabit in the farm
-Respect for all infrastructures and means and tools that have been made or obtained with a lot of effort and are absolutely vital for our survival here.
-Human interaction away from the logic of transaction (monetary or non-monetary) for us every egg, every drop of honey and every piece of knowledge, experience, infrastructure and means that we will share with you has incalculable value. However, we value incalculably every second that you, our guest will devote through your heart to deal with preserving, upgrading, building and supporting our farm and its causes. We believe that useful knowledge is like compost. Useless unless you disperse it.
So we are really looking forward to placing YOU in our everyday activities. Be it watering the garden, feeding the chickens, building a dome, cooking, playing music, making a long conversation on how to change the world, we want to work together, interact, teach and learn with you.
Establishing mutually beneficial relationships (that lead to universally beneficial relationships) is the ultimate cause of all our efforts. We strongly believe that mutually beneficial relationships once established will be proven by far better than the common mutual exploitation relationships that we are familiar with in our modern society.
Thus we are expecting you, great people, to build together with us the new narrative of mutually beneficial relationships and post it for the next to find and upgrade
P.S. We cohabit with five cats and a dog that are absolutely friendly with children and other pets. Children and pets with similar behavior are always more than welcome to the farm.
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Kunstprojekte
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Betreuung von Tieren
Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
Hausarbeiten
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
Hilfe mit Computer /Internet
UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
Travelers will be taught traditional and modern organic gardening techniques, permaculture and natural building, meet new people. Moreover Apiary, nursery,tree care and guidelines to observe the nature with its patterns and miracles. The options for (perma)cultural exchange are too many to mention here provided that the Travellers have an appetite for it. Please refer to our description for more.
Arbeit
*****AFTER ONE YEAR IN WORKAWAY It has been proved to us that the BEST HELP we can receive is from people that want to LEARN THROUGH DOING or BE PRODUCTIVE FOR THEIR OWN REASONS BY DOING and the WORST HELP that we desperetaly WANT TO AVOID is from people that need a place to stay and are willing to offer help as an exchange for hosting .In this case their work has created double or triple the effort and the worries that we would have if we did the task ourselves.
Also we realized that we can't offer a schedule of 3-5 hours of work per day as we are NOT A COMMERCIAL FARM and we dont have a constant daily workflow. The visitor here will probably be asked to visit the chicken coop three times a day ,feed the cats for another 5 minutes, participate another 20 minutes in preparing a meal or washing vegetables and dishes, collect flowers if it is a flower collecting day, dig and plant trees if it is a tree planting day, chill out when we all chill out, and to connect with our everyday habbits and schedule as much as possible.
As a general approach we ask for about 4hours of help for six days per week (max. 25 hours per week) but we can be flexible and adjust that according to everyones needs. Apart from that we ask for participation in table setup, maybe in salad cutting or other meal preparation assistance, in bread making and baking, and defenatelly in the washup and cleanup after meals.
So we are really looking forward to placing YOU in our everyday activities. Be it watering the garden, feeding the chicken, cooking, playing music, making a long conversation on how to change the world, we want to work together, interact, teach and learn with you. The tasks are just the excuse for getting closer to each other under a common cause.
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Gesprochene Sprachen
Greek: Fließend
Englisch: FließendDieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
We have developed a two hour course to teach the Greek alphabet. Greek language is phonetic. Which means that all the information one needs to pronounce a greek text is in the text itself. You only need to learn the sound that every letter produces. We are very proud to share this knowledge with every visitor and have succeded to do so with a few so far.
Unterkunft
For the moment hosting can be provided during the dry season (summer, half spring and half autumn) in tents.Mobile homes RVs and Caravans are more than welcome too. The guests can use the infrastructures and means of the farm (toilet, kitchen, shower, outdoor living room, bicycle, tent area) taking up the responsibility of their personal safety and proper use of them. As for food we follow the old Greek moto "where four people can eat, six can eat as well" which means that we will provide portions of our own meals (three a day). We are mainly vegetarians but not strictly. Eggs and vegetables are usually enough and we shop responsibly on our way to autonomy step by step. You are always welcome to cook something different or extra using up whatever available, or shop yourselves something from the village. However we will have to guide and supervise you through our kitchen tools.
Was noch ...
The nearest (2km) village to the farm is called Arla. It has a mini market, bakery, grill house, 3 café restaurants with free wifi, a pharmacy and a tool shop. From this village. The nearest city with a full market is Kato Achaia which is 8km away by road. The beach of Kato Achaia is organized and full of bars and restaurants.
The International Airport of Araxos is located 30km away from the farm (approx. 40 minutes by car)
The West Achaia Region where the farm is located is suitable for wine tourism as one can find many wineries that welcome visitors. The region is inhabited continuously for over eight millennia (from 6000 B.C.) a statement that is based upon archaeological findings that one can find in the areas’ museums and monuments such as walls, aqueducts, and cemeteries. The beaches of west Achaia are well known for their peaceful and clean waters.
Even though the farm is relatively close to the sea (8 km) there is no sea view. However from here, one can see the beautiful mountains of Peloponnese, Erymanthos, Santameri, Mazaraki, and Movri.
WE DONT MIND HOSTING SMOKERS as long as they smoke outdoors, are extremely careful with fire safety issues, and care for the dispose of their cigarette buds.
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Internet Zugang
Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
Wir besitzen Tiere
Wir sind Raucher
Familien möglich
Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans
From mid November to mid March we accept only Campervans and other Mobile Homes. These should serve the visitors for accomodation, indoor cooking, heating, and living room. We offer parking spot in the farm, composting toilet, 12 volt electricity, occasional-limited 220volt electricity, hot shower, washing machine, outdoor cooking gas stove, drinkable water, ice for your icebox. Additionally we will be happy to do some shopping for you if you want, while we do our weekly shopping so that you don't have to travel and search for things. We visit the street vegetable market every week and we find deals of local veggies as cheap as 1euro per kilo. Finally we offer education around anything we know. We DON'T offer meals-ingredients We ask for up to 15hours assistance per person per week and the rest as described above (respect for all forms of life that cohabit in the farm...etc). The farm's gate is 2.9 meters wide ,so any vehicle wider than that can't go through
Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen
We will not accept animals that feed off a kitchen garden. For example we don't accept bunnies. Please don't bring a dog here that: -can be aggressive towards children, cats or other dogs. -Has a habbit to dig, as it can do a lot of damage to the farm and also it might escape under the fence and cause problems to neighbors. -Is not co-operating with you, and you can't train it within a reasonable time to not step into garden beds.
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Maximum 4 hours a day, 6 days a week, dispersed through the whole day
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your place means a lot to me, you mean a lot to me! I stayed one month and even tho it's not such a long time i feel like i'm part of your family (thank you so much for giving me this feeling) and also i learnt so much from you: greek culture and language (i just loved your food, thank you for the recipes, thank… read more
It was a wonderful experience and all the people I met there were very nice.
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She helped us so much and we learned a lot from her. Meeting people like her give us the hope that a better world already exists.
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