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Beschreibung
🌱 Who We Are
We’re Andre (30, chef from Dublin) and Helios (organizer & builder). Together we are taking care of a private seaside home & garden in Apulia, South Italy.
🌿 What We’re Doing Now
• Cleaning & regenerating abandoned land.
• Gardening & permaculture (vegetables, fruit trees, olive care)
• Taking care of sheep 🐑 & chickens 🐓and goose’s 🪿 .
• Organizing outdoor spaces & fences.
• Light household help (tidying common areas, simple maintenance).
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🛠️ How You Can Help
• Cleaning and tidying outdoor spaces.
• Gardening and helping in the vegetable patch or with olive trees.
• Carrying light materials like soil, sand, or wood (we do the technical/heavy work).
• Feeding animals and helping with their spaces.
• Keeping shared areas clean and watering plants in hot weather.
(No dangerous tools are required — we only ask for light and safe help.)
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🍇 Seasonal Household Activities
• Aug–Oct → grape harvest (for family use) & making simple house wine 🍷;
• Oct–Dec → olive harvest & pressing small-batch olive oil 🌿
• Jan → caring for sheep, occasional cheesemaking 🧀;
• Mar → garden help, pruning, and preparing new planting areas;
• Summer → enjoying the seaside & occasional trips to sea grottos 🌊.
🤝 What We’re Looking For
Volunteers who are:
• Happy to help with gardening & animals;
• Flexible and creative;
• Respectful of simple, nature-based living;
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✨ What We Offer
• Learning about permaculture, gardening, olive trees, and simple home cheesemaking;
• Living close to the sea in a peaceful natural environment;
• Shared meals, good company, and being part of a household project from the start;
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👉 Important: This is a private household project only, with no connection to guest or tourism activities. All produce (oil, wine, cheese, etc.) is only for private use.
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Kunstprojekte
Sprachpraxis
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Unterrichten
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Betreuung von Tieren
Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
Hausarbeiten
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
Interessengebiete
Strand
Wandern
Architektur
Zeichnen & Malen
Geschichte
Gärtnern
Darstellende Künste
Kochen & Backen
Kunst & Design
Nachhaltigkeit
Haustiere
Farmarbeit
Sprachen
Fotografie
Gartenarbeiten
Tischlerarbeiten
Tiere
Natur
Tanzen
Camping
UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
Location & Free Time 🌞
• The project is just a few steps from the sea → you can swim whenever you want!
• Surrounded by amazing natural spots like:
• La Grotta Verde
• Le Cave di Bauxite
• Castro Marina
• A rich variety of Mediterranean trees & plants 🌳
• We have a car, so little trips to explore the area together are possible 🚗;
👉 If you love nature, sustainable living, and community spirit – we’d love to welcome you!
Arbeit
• Helping us clean and tidy up outdoor spaces, gardening, and assisting with simple projects in our private garden (for example, carrying soil, sand, or wood).
• We don’t ask you to use dangerous tools – just light and safe help, while we take care of the technical parts.
Sprachen
Gesprochene Sprachen
Englisch: Fließend
Italienisch: Fließend
Russisch: FließendDieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
Dieser Gastgeber gibt an, dass er dir gern seine Muttersprache beibringt oder selbst eine Sprache lernen möchte.
Bitte wende dich direkt an ihn, um weitere Auskünfte zu erhalten.
Unterkunft
🏡 Accommodation
• Volunteers can stay in a camper, tent, or shared common room with bathroom (note: hot water not always available).
• The space has a gas kitchenette, fridge, and regular mattress.
• Simple living close to nature – please note the bathroom door does not close perfectly.
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🍽️ Food
• We provide ingredients for breakfast (often from the garden).
• After the day’s activities, we enjoy a shared evening meal together (around 7 p.m.).
• Lunch is on your own – the supermarket and laundry shop are 15 minutes away on foot.
• For active/proactive volunteers, we’re often happy to share snacks or a light lunch too 😉.
• Fireplace heating is available; wood is free, but we may ask for a little help collecting it from the forest.
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🧺 Practical Info
• Days off: usually 1–2 depending on the season. We kindly ask that volunteers help keep their space and shared areas tidy.
• Towels & bedsheets: we wash these about every 2 weeks.
• Personal laundry: nearby washing machines (€4 for 10kg / €7 for 16kg).
Etwas mehr Information
Internet Zugang
Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
Wir besitzen Tiere
Wir sind Raucher
Familien möglich
Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans
Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
mehr als zwei
Meine Tiere/Haustiere
The rooster Antonio
@MichealJacksonSheep
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Chatte mit Workawayern, die diesen Gastgeber besucht haben
Feedback (9)
She is very able to help in the garden as a professional gardener. 👨🌾
Very polite and smart + great sense of humor !
Truly recommend as a volunteer!
Thank you ☺️
I hope u will be back to our farm
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Chatte mit Workawayern, die diesen Gastgeber besucht haben
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Korrekte Angaben im Profil:
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Kultureller Austausch:
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Kommunikation:
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She is very able to help in the garden as a professional gardener. 👨🌾
Very polite and smart + great sense of humor !
Truly recommend as a volunteer!
Thank you ☺️
I hope u will be back to our farm
We've mainly done wood related tasks: burning branches, selecting the better quality ones and saving them for fence and gates.
So yes, using the selected wood, we've been building gates and preparing the poles to make a fence, so the animals can stay inside.
The house is just next to… read more
The other workaway girls and I could choose ourselves when we would like to work aslong as we worked at least 5 hours a day. I would say the work was easy most of the time.… read more
Elio's farm is right next to the sea where you can have a nice swim and a short walk away from the village Marittima. Surrounded by nature and having a beautiful view over the sea I felt very comfortable… read more
It was such an amazing experience. The place itself its very beautiful, surrounded by nature, with breathtaking view.
We worked at the farm, picked up the olives and cleaning some areas. The job was mainly easy but there were sometimes harder tasks to do, but we enjoyed it most of the time.… read more
Always available to help from gardening or construction like an easy task like get for you at the supermarket for grab something also super for child or animals care.
She did everything… read more
Thank you !
I really loved my stay and I had a wonderful time there. the place is amazingly beautiful, surrounded by nature and animals (goose, chickens and other kind of birds, cats and two lamps). I… read more
We used to buy local products for breakfast that the volunteers has to made by their self and we eat all together in the afternoon.
She most of the time prepare the breakfast for all volunteers and she was the first ready to help !
Really… read more
I gave her many tasks including painting, like painting trees and furniture which she did great and precisely as well as cleaning the houses and the territory. Ana was always available for help and… read more
She always made power and effort in gardening, cleaning space, building fence and other stuff in woods.
She is a multi tasking Workawayer keeping every single moment in the farm always sunny and funny !
We hope to host her again
Truly recommended as a workawayer !
Ida is a professional handygirl and Alberta is very good In decoration.
Very good Combo !
I hope they will be back so also me I could work and enjoy time at Acquaviva Bay with them.
