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It is a dream of maintaining a simple sustainable life in a close connection with nature and our souranding, out of fascination and respect for old village life to modern and and efficient ideas and technologies. We strive to create a fertile ground for self- sustainable ways of gathering and passing knowledge. The Project sparked in our first encounter with Permaculture and sustainable living and it was carried with us on our journey of receiveing knowledge and experience. Our path leads ahead and we will continue with our journey of learning and sharing, thru various methods of working and connecting with our Earth...
We are Oliver and Hedia and our sweet two-year-old Talia invite you to join us in a new and charming project in the magical valleys of Macedonia.
After a long period of more than a decade in which we studied and worked in a variety of different ecological farms around the world, we researched and learned a wide variety of traditional and modern farming and construction techniques and gained extensive knowledge in everything related to a sustainable and independent ecological life
And we were even privileged to establish our own edible forest in the Galilee mountains where we grew a wide variety of over 100 different fruit trees, field crops and a thriving vegetable garden.
Soon we are returning to Oliver's homeland of Macedonia to fulfill an old dream of ours and that of our friend Alexander to establish a cooperative and ecological rural productive community on Alexander's ancestral land in the picturesque village of Belica in western Macedonia, a place wich already is establishing itself for the past 10 years.
Our NGO , non profit organisation, is not business oriented and doesn't make profit...
About Us:
Oliver: professional gardener and landscape designer, specializing in irrigation systems. Investigates the communication systems between plants, natural material builder, musician...
Aleksandar: gardener, gatherer,food preserving, woodcrafter, builder with natural materials, and a keeper of the old ways of living and thriving in the nature.
Hedia: artist and yoga teacher. Specializing in ancient crafts, lover of wild plants
Talia: A sweet ray of sunshine and a faithful love companion😋
Kara: our shepard lovely dog that we care about and she takes care about .
We are very connected to the Balkan folk music and our evenings revolve around playing together, we will be happy to host musicians from all over the world
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are situated in a beautifull village surounded by mountains in the west of Macedonia... The village by itself it has a friendly vibe and part of his enhabitants are running a eco project for recreating their local village school becoming a green school so we will try to assist them forfulling their dreams... We also are very involved in the traditional culture of Macedonia mostly its folk music so you will be able to learn a lot for macedonian culture....
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
This summer we are planning several projects on different topics; From establishing a large food garden and building greenhouses, to building a mud and stone facilities. A new chicken coop will be built, collaborative spaces will be created and vegetables and fruits will be preserved in a variety of ways for the winter. We will also participate in the various projects of the village such as cleaning the rivers and building up the local school with the help of the local villagers who are already deep into establishing a healthy ground for a green school facility wich will provide conference halls, beautiful space for sharing knowledge for sustainable life and ecology.
In order to complete all the projects, we will be happy to host about 2-3 on daily bases and bigger number for workshops projects... Volunteers with or without experience in agriculture work, in wood, mud and stone work…
Who want to enjoy being close to nature and the opportunity to participate in learning and teaching in an enabling and happy place
Languages spoken
Bulgarian: Fluent
Bosnian: Fluent
English: Fluent
Hebrew: Fluent
Croatian: Fluent
Macedonian: Fluent
Serbian: Fluent
Accommodation
We offer: Our lodging conditions are in a neat, spacious and pleasant camping area near the stream, which includes two large furnished tips for use as a common space, a pampering outdoor shower with hot water, composting toilets and a comfortably equipped outdoor kitchen for the good sunny days. Also for rainy and colder days we have a room that can provide warm stayment and possibility to use our facilities such as showers, toilet kitchen if its neceserry. But we encourage the volounteers to stay in the main farmhouse area so they can expirience nature and outdoor livestyle much better ...
Every day we provide 3 vegetarian/vegan meals and at least once a week a meat dinner (for those interested).We expect sone help from the volontiers with preapering the meals...
Our days are usually divided into2 -3 hours in the morning and 2-3 hours in the afternoon
We work 5 days a week
On the days when we will not be working (the weekends will be free to wonder), the volunteers can be on the area of the farm (free to enjoy our beautiful space) or take a walk and explore the area.
They will also have access to the kitchen and all the good things in it.
What else ...
Around the area there are lot of possibilities of hiking, visitind waterfalls andd ancient forest and few orthodox old christian monasteries...
Close there is the Ottoman capital of Macedonia the city of Bitola that is great for urban exploring, as well our closest town that is a hometown for some of us...
Also close in 60 km there is one of Europe oldest sweet water lakes with the picturesque town of Ohrid...
There is a few buses a day from Kichevo or Bitola towards our village and hitchiking in the small roads works pretty well...
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
