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Hi I'm Amber an Australian living in Greece for the last 10 years and my husband is Rafail who is Greek. We are a married couple in our 40's and have a toddler boy 'Iosif' who is 2 & 1/2 !! . (super cheeky & loves to play hide & seek..)
We consider ourselves 'semi off grid' people who have a house in Evia, not far from Chalkida.
Our house is not completely finished and we continue to build it by ourselves.
Incorporating natural building, self sustainability and a lot of time, effort and helping hands.
Now as a new family we are continuing to establish the gardens with permaculture practices .
Our house runs completely on battery & solar power is within olive fields and is very close to the beautiful sea and mountains of Evia. It is on a single large block of land with a few neighbours.
Upcoming springs current needs include planting summer vegetables, maintaining the greenhouse, weeding & pruning from winter. Also we like to repaint before greek easter (!), oil the house & continue structuring our outdoor area.
We also cultivate and collect wild herbs and flowers to make our full home pharmacy of teas, creams & oils plus try to make as many homemade sauces, jams and dried foods from our garden as possible.
We have many ideas, enthusiasm and experience for living with the nature and as permaculture practices say
'many hands make light work' so we always needs help!
In my recent past life I managed a permaculture center in the Peloponnese for 6 years involving lots and lots of volunteers and love the benefits of exchanging energy, knowledge and learning from each other. There I built a natural little 'hobbit' house, established a poly culture fruit orchard & herbal medicinal gardens.
Rafail is an electrician, handy man & built everything here himself over the last 15 years.
We enjoy good food a lot! Healthy, organic & when possible form the garden or the local bio street market.
As we are a family with no tv... (which we like) our nights are relatively quiet during the week ~ books, games, movies, watering gardens, dinner & we personally sleep earlyish as our days are full. We Can host up to 2 volunteers., Sometimes you would also need to enjoy your own company, chilling in the garden, a walk into town or in the warmer months we like to go to the beach for an early evening swim is always nice...we have a pushbike you can use or your always welcome to join us.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
First you will be with an outgoing Australian and Greek! English and Greek are spoken.
Full of greek culture, wildlife, fresh water and the sea, nature and with our lifestyle we are always on an adventure - with the beautiful changing seasons in Greece.
You will learn about how to make permaculture gardens, biodynamic gardening, how to use organic matter to make soil!, growing plants from seed, transplanting, cultivating & harvesting techniques.
Mediterranean herbs, how to use and process them, some natural building, painting, woodwork and /or how to be energy self sustainable plus we might go foraging in the mountains. or by the sea.
Volunteers also really enjoy taking our bicycle to explore the many beaches close to us in their free time.
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Help
We are hoping to welcome people to help with our permaculture gardening, handy work, natural building, cooking, herbal collections, creams & oils, jams, foraging, small house duties sometimes and hanging out with our toddler at random moments. If you have experience with a particular area that you would like to offer please let us know.
Languages spoken
Greek: Fluent
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We offer our caravan which has a double bed & single bed.
Heated, lights & power to charge your phone ( when the sun is shining ;) )
Bathroom is within our house plus kitchen. Plenty of hang out areas outside in the balcony & gardens also.
3 meals will be provided - sometimes prepared by you, sometimes by us.
Food is very important to us - we eat organic as possible and as much from our garden as we can, plus love making different yummy cakes and enjoy other peoples cooking.
What else ...
With your time off there depending when you are with us there is many nature activities to explore and we are close to other places / cities that can be reached for day trips by bus if you feel like going somewhere else. We both know greece very well.
Our expectations of people living with us is that they are with us because they are interested in a natural lifestyle- to learn, help and have an exchange. To respect we are a new family, enjoying life, connected to nature with good food and company.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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She adapted to the different days tasks with joy & interest.
Making delicious food, looking after our new little plants & greatly appreciated her help with daily house duties.
Plus her courage to swim in the cold sea!!
We hope to see you again. :)
Everything was organised and clear. Amber is quite creative, open minded and lives green. All of those were important to me and I learned a… read more
Her bright & enthusiastic personality was always eager to help with any tasks needed. She is truly interested in all the ways of permaculture / natural living & she helped make our new herb garden with great care!
A truly genuine care for all the tasks & had great conversations with… read more
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She adapted to the different days tasks with joy & interest.
Making delicious food, looking after our new little plants & greatly appreciated her help with daily house duties.
Plus her courage to swim in the cold sea!!
We hope to see you again. :)
Everything was organised and clear. Amber is quite creative, open minded and lives green. All of those were important to me and I learned a… read more
Her bright & enthusiastic personality was always eager to help with any tasks needed. She is truly interested in all the ways of permaculture / natural living & she helped make our new herb garden with great care!
A truly genuine care for all the tasks & had great conversations with… read more
From the moment she joined her caring & mindful personality offered so much to our home for 3 weeks.
Communicating & enjoying free time together also, particularly with Iosif my toddler she had a special bond.
She took care and was very capable of all the… read more
I think it’s most helpful if I just explain how my time was, so other volunteers have a sense of what to expect.
The place is… read more
Amazing details to all the offerings & work received. Laughs, great cook & in general nice energy felt.
We look forward to next time!!
Highly recommend 💚
She was very polite & soft natured with also a great perspective on life and interested in many things.
Her sense of humour & calmness helped me alot.
A true pleasure to have around.
All the best!
We built a lasagna-garden, a herb garden, sometimes I took care about the 1,5 years old Iosef and did some house-maintenance jobs. I was sleeping in a cozy caravan, so I had my own space when I wanted to.
I learnt a lot about herbs and permaculture from her - as she is experienced in both -… read more
Thankyou so much!
Be careful… read more
She was also wonderful with my little one year old and brought us lots of smiles.… read more
She was easy to communicate with and valued our suggestions… read more
They are enthusiastic, present and give 100% to the project that they are in. We thoroughly enjoyed having them here in Greece for 3 weeks and especially my 10 month old son.
Creative, energetic healthy people. Thankyou so much!!!
It was my first workaway experience and I stayed with them about a month in early spring 2022. Everything was organized last minute, but as soon as I started to get in touch with Amber I had a very good feeling… read more
