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Hi There,
We are Alberto and me (Valeria): the crew!
My husband, Alberto, follows the daily farm tasks.
We live in an ancient farm House in Italy, close to the Maggiore Lake and at the bottom of a hill, Sangiano Mountain.
Alberto is bolivian and I'm italian.
We have 4 dogs and a huge rural farm house.
We need specific help in housekeeping, preparing meals, plants and taking care of veggie and animals as chickens,
but also maintenance, gardening, decorating etc ...
We love create connection and intercultural exchange.
Help is volunteering, but we offer accomodation ( private or, just in case, sharing room- but only with others workawayers - ) food, hot water shower, washing machine, wifi and a bike to go around.
We could provide a private park, if you want to join us by your own car.
We are looking for polite and sunny people who are glad to spend time with us and share culture and knowledge.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We could exchange an italian and bolivian culture. We could teach italian language and italian cousine, if you would like.
My husband is a bolivian-italian chef.
Come to live in a really rural farmhouse following the Season and the sun. Restart from the Nature and our Roots far away from the metropolitan Life-style.
Help
I list the help requested just to give you more details but the activities could change based on season, whether and owners needed.
Expertises are not requested but you must be aware of:
- We work 5 hours/day and we aspect only hard workers;
- Field is always down in a ground level so no bad backs for gardening tasks;
- House is huge, we live in the country yard and we share our place within 6 to 20 people (workawayers) at the same time, so no bad backs (about tasks) and no sweet heart ( about the respecting of the house rules to keep everything as much clean as possible)
- PROJECTS are in the WA standard (25hours/week) but they are not in the standard calendar based.
We work super hard in double shifts for maximum 2 day and half CONSECUTIVE. This is great deal for people who love to see the results of their work but they are also for hard workers and hard lovers because concentrate the working hours open the spare time period. 2,5 working days/week with 4,5 spare time days. you could spent going around our amazing area or to arrange small journey to Torino, Venice, Milan, Florence, Pisa etc..
We host less than one month only for projects activities.
Housekeeping commonly tasks:
Clean the open area collecting dog poo, keep tidy up the entire area (entrance, the farmer market shop and the park)
Collect rubbish (based on calendar garbage)
Clean and keep tidy the stairs, the rooms.
Prepare lunch
Maintenance of different home-made compost:
Worn
Bokashi
Pollina
Em
Gardening tasks:
To prepare the field
To plant seeds
To transplant plant from vase to field
To clean plants already in the field
Add "food compost" to the plants
Harvest
Watering plants
Cutting old branches
Fertilize plants, garden, trees (everywere)
Animal farm tasks:
feed
give water
collect count clean print eggs
fertilize the chickeen yard (every 2 days)
clean the chicken house (once a week)
Projects example:
To restore the greenhouse
To build a swimming pool
To renovate composter
To restore a ceiling
To renovate a room
To renovate kichen
We speak italian and spanish as mother tongue, we speak English but we are glad to improve it.
Learn a new language would be great.
Languages
Languages spoken
Spanish: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
English: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
Valeria is looking for an English teacher!
Accommodation
Possibility of Private room with wifi.
No private bathroom.
Electricity will be provide by solar panel, so we raccomande you to switch off the lights and unplugged your PC/tablet when you don't need it to avoid useless waste of energy.
Bathroom is provided by warm water.
Workawayers could share our laundry and our food. Food we share is basically come from our fields:
Vegetables and fruits.
We don't have any kind of food restrictions, but our diet is vegetables based, with eggs/milk often, rarely we eat meat or fish.
We eat seasoning food in relationships with Nature.
We eat 3 times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
What else ...
We live near lake and a hill. In your free time you could take a walk in the middle of nature, have a bath in one of several beaches near here. By bike reach the boat and visit Switzerland in a day trip. Milan is reachable by train.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
For digital nomads we have a decent WiFi connection and spare room to work without distractions
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
5 hours a day 5 days a week
Feedback (24)
I had the pleasure of spending two and a half months at this incredible workaway with lovely people! Right away I felt like I was home and in a paradise on earth! One of my favorite things about the work here is that many of us spent the morning working hard together and then we all sat down for a spectacular lunch either… read more
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I had the pleasure of spending two and a half months at this incredible workaway with lovely people! Right away I felt like I was home and in a paradise on earth! One of my favorite things about the work here is that many of us spent the morning working hard together and then we all sat down for a spectacular lunch either… read more
As described in the profile the… read more
From the moment I arrived, they made me feel like a part of their family. Their warmth and welcoming nature created a comfortable and inclusive environment. I was fortunate enough to meet fellow workawayers who shared both my work ethic and the desire to make meaningfull… read more
In questo periodo mi sono immersa soprattutto nel loro progetto della serra, spazio che abbiamo creato insieme anche ai loro amici ed altri… read more
Let's start by saying thank you to everyone there for such an amazing experience, we stayed there in the summer for two weeks, Alberto and Vale are great people always very welcome, a very lovely couple, they own 2 beautiful and friendly dogs that we miss every day.
If you love the outdoors this is the place for you, there is always… read more
Regards,
the Crew (MARK)
I've stayed for one month there and had one of the most amazing experience's in my life!
First I'll start with Vale and Alberto,
they made me feel at home right away!
They are generous, kind and inspiring people.
Vale and I had a lot of deep and interesting conversations, and we shared a lot of passion to food and having a good… read more
we really enjoyed their accompany, hardworkers and no complain about outdoors work, they are excellent and funny peoples, friendly and easily adapt for any task they do.. wish you all the best for both of you and see you again nexttime!!
Regards,
the Crew (Mark)
Regards,
The Crew (Mark)
The work to be done is very varied and not so hard, gardening, taking care of the chickens, building the greenhouse, (moreover we would like to see when it will be finished !)
During our free time in the afternoon we were able to visit the… read more
Regards,
the Crew (MARK)
They are open-minded, nice and jolly guys all day long. They are hard workers but ready to share Parranda with us. They put Love and Respect in every single step they make. Napoleon helped us builing a greenhouse, for example, from the idea until the start of… read more
Thank you for your great experience in our place. We really appreciated for being with us, She is really great chef, taking care our kitchen and always she cooked Argentina food and we love it so much, don't hesitate to ask a dessert and she always prepared to do it with her secret recipes with love,, Your stay with us is memorable… read more
Aprendi sobre gallinas, y sobre el manejo del suelo, y lo mas valioso me hice de amigos increíbles. Realmente una experiencia unica e inolvidable. Gracias!! :)
I mostly helped for the preparation of an upcoming event (beautiful Bohemian Garden) with decoration, cooking and a bit of gardening.
On our free time we all went to the beach or big cities around. Really… read more
Thank you for your good experience in our place, and the project was magnifique and done with your expertise unexpected and really appreciated. your such a good person and smart your highly recommended. we hope to see you again.
The Crew,
MARK
There are many interesting jobs to do, from gardening, taking care of chickens, construction and maintenance jobs and more.
In a few days they already make you feel part of the family.
The meals are very good, with local foods.
Mark, the garden manager, is very nice and an excellent… read more
The Crew,
MARK
The work varied from day to day, depending on the weather and the priorities. This allowed me to do a lot of different tasks, such as watering the plants in a truly gorgeous mountaneous landscape, constructing raised beds from wood… read more
Thanks for your feedback and we appreciated for being part of our team, We will do our best to improved everything to be satisfied our workawayers. cheers
The Crew,
MARK
Due to a lack of communication and appearantly too little experience with hosting multiple workers at once, our trip came to a forced sudden end.
Sono stato subito accolto da uno di famiglia da Valeria, Alberto e Mark insieme a i due fantastici cani !
Sono stato solo 2 settimane ma è come se fossi stato più tempo perchè mi hanno fatto sentire subito a mio agio.
Hanno un bel progetto e gli… read more
He is a super polite and jolly guy.
He is full of Joy of life, proactive and very hardworker.
We loved sharing each others experiences.
He is an open minded guy, he has always a smiling face and he has a curious attitude.
Open your home and he will open his heart.
