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Come and help our family, living simple self sufficient life in the Marche, Italy

  • Last activity : 26 Jun 2025

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: No minimum

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  • Description

    Description

    in 2016 un heartquake make our house inusable...
    we organise our location in a wood emergency house and caravan, and you can come here and sleep in our caravan or in your tent...

    i'm Stefano (1981), i live with Simona (1980) and our sons Romeo(2008) , Dario(2011) and Dalila (2016).

    we live into the nature, near our house live a family homeschooler with 2 sons.. i'm looking for energy and food self-sufficiency and i' m are walking to this but at that moment it' s a looong looong way for us!!!Simona, she prefere the confortable way, that's why you will found on our table, our garden products near supermarket products....

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Teaching
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Interests

    Interests

    Farming
    Sustainability
    Plant care
    Gardening
    Hitchhiking
    Drawing & painting
    Carpentry
    Yoga / Wellness
    Nature
    Camping
    Dancing
    Outdoor activities
    Hiking
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    you can lear some daily natural life's skill: ricognize and eat wild food, cook on the woodstove or solar cooking, learn eco building skill, daily contact with the 4 element..
    We aren't so serius and hard: Our life is a compromise between what we dream of and what we manage to do.
    you can discover some alternative way of life to enrich YOUR search for life.
    we aren't teacher, we are walking people

    We expect you to bring your "world" into our home: our spirit of hospitality is "if I can't travel the world right now, I want the world to travel to my home"

  • Au pair

    Au Pair Help

    Further details can be found here

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    we live with simplicity and ' help we need is work on simple everyday , cook on the wood stove, horticulture and traditional summer and winter garden, be with our children by bringing them your life experiences , help for learning languages ​​and for the ' PC use . you can teach music , folk dances and popular games if you know.

    In this moment we need some help to do some renovation and maintenance tasks in green building house, and you can learn many eco building skill. Obviously you can't enter in the contruction site area, which is reserved for workers, anyway you can help from outside and learn many interesting skill.
    In addiction, we need help in babysitting, pc use, collects wild herbs (in compliance with the lunar cycles of course..... :-), cooking, solar cookig,
    At the moment we don't have a summer garden because we're going to rebuild our house and the whole space is full of construction material, but i project to prepare ther winter garden.
    then..

    we have a roulotte (caravan) to renovate, i would like to paint it ....artistically.. are you able? can you teach us some painting techniques? do you want to do it toghether?

    i want to clean a water source and create a wild zen place where you can breathe, listen to the sound of water, feel the earth and have a small fire ...do you want to help me?

    Usually we do not give precise times for the help we ask you, when you arrive here at our house we will agree on your skills, your rhythms, our needs and our rhythms. We demand commitment and respect, and that's what we'll be willing to give you

  • Languages spoken

    Italian: Fluent
    French: Intermediate
    English: Beginner
    Spanish: Beginner

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We have a 1 spartan roulotte to host you or a camper (but we use it sometime..
    otherwise you can come here with your caravan and roulotte. for the moment we haven't space for tent.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Calcina is near Camerino , in the Marche, central Italy . is 600 meters above sea level , you can make hiking trails from our house . public transport are 6 km away. Camerino is a small college town , you can live the simple nightlife of the place.

    Not far ( about 20 km) there are the Sibillini mountains : a ' protected area where still live wild animals such as wolves, deer, wild boar , badgers weasels , porcupines , hawks, eagles and other wildlife in the wild , where you can do beautiful walks and breathtaking views. This biodiversity you can see it here in Calcina , but in the park of Sibillini can find classrooms , museums and guided tours very interesting if you want to know the nature of central Italy

    We have unlimited internet access.
    We live with hens and cats , we are free to also accommodate other animals , but we prefer that the animals are out the door of our apartment , where is space and possibility of shelter for many animals.
    i'm not smoker (in this the moment) Simona,Romeo, Dario and Dalila too! then we prefere that smoking guests go to smoke outside the house where there are many shelters for smokers.
    We prefer to be alerted least one week in advance, but we are open to last minutes host..

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

Host ref number: 135434743853

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