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Join us with our dream in Segesta, Italy

  • Last activity : 15 Feb 2025

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  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    Important: not lees than 2 weeks and not more than 4 weeks….
    From March 25 we will just recibe couple or Friends (not a single person)

    Hi! first of all thanks for looking to our Workaway experience, for us, that means that we are doing the things right. Feel free to look & ask us every thing you want so you can ve sure that’s what you are looking.

    Talking about us, we are a couple from two countries. Rodrigo (42) from Chile and Camilla (40) from Italy that with a lot of love have Emma (5) and Rosa (2)

    We start our new country life 6 years ago, when we bought our first piece of land. At the beginning it was a mess, because it was abandone. Now after some work we finish the first house, then the second and now we continui with the number 3 and 4… working and growing up with the fields and the coultive of olive trees and other staff.

    We live in the middle of olive's fields with more that 800 trees. From our land you can see Segesta Temple and the teather, (one of the most important of Italy), the sea and the mountain Inci. So in this way you are in the middle of the island and the real Sicilia.

    Before being farmers (or at least trynig), Camilla is an architect and Rodrigo is an engineer. Being a couple one of the things that we like the most it’s traveling and doing sports (paragling, sailng, biking, camping, trekking, etc…). That helps us a lot with our dream, because, we know a lot of different cultures, places and people, that it’s directly involve because we choose all of our favorite things that we know to mix them and build our dream place.

    What do we ask?
    We want you to be one more in the TEAM, to help us in what you can, share with us your experience. If you can, teach us something that we don’t know. Every day it’s important to learn something more.
    About the work, for our business activity we ave employed people, but the country life need a lot of diary work. We need help in:
    - the maintenance of the spaces around our house
    - making the familiar vegetable garden and in the maintenance of our house.
    -help with some animals (two donkeys, sheeps and some chickens).
    - other dificult to explain in relación to the house and fields.

    Important: we concentrate the work in less days soo you have more time for free to get around the island and discovery.

    In our house we speak Italian, Spanish and English … Any way after traveling for many countries we know that is you want to communicate it’s always posible, even if we don’t speak the same language

    We offer accomodations in :
    Summer season : wheels house that is parked close to our house.
    Winter season: a private house with hot water, kitchen, bathroom in the middle of the olive fields. (Only for cuoples, of your are alone and we find some one more you will share the room)

    We offer you 3 meals (breakfast lunch and dinner). We always try to cook something that all can appreciate. Meals are our best moments, as in any typical Italian family around the table we love to share our histories and heard from you yours.

    It's important to understand that we are a family with two small childrens living in the house. So is necessary to have respect of them helping to maintain clean the common spaces, in particular the bathroom and the kitchen.

    If you are interested to come, please write us WHEN you can arrive, for how MANY TIME and a WhatsApp number to contact you.

    Thanks

    We are waiting for you to help us making our dream come true!


    FAQ:
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    When is the olive season?
    If you are interest in learning and helps us with that... We normally do it from last of September until last of November.

    What can we do to make easy the communication?
    If you want/need to have a fast answer tell us:
    - When are you planing to arrive / for how long do you want to be with us.
    - Consider sharing a house with other workaway (if they are in the same time)
    - You need to arrive by yourself to: "Calatafimi Segesta, trapani." or "Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani" where we can go and pick you up.

    Important: we JUST WANT OUR ANIMALS, we don’t want other animals because some of them make problems with ours donkeys, sheep's , cats or dogs…


    Let us know , soo we are ready for you!

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    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
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    if we love traveling it’s also because we love to share end eating. And that's by the hand of a good meal sharing the table. And for us it’s where we learn more. And will be glad to share our and yours experiences with a glass of wine (made in our farm).

    Like us, we hope that you are interested in learning so will be more than happy to help you and teach you want we can (italian food, chilean could be our special, but in our road trip throw america we also learn some special plates.

    About Sicilia, in particular this part of the island, we know it very well. Camilla have been coming in seen she was little. So all of the secrets and the special places we share it with you.

    If you are looking to improve your Italian, Spanish ore even english will be happy to practice (it’s always good for all).

  • Help

    Help

    The help is not hard!
    We welcome help to clean our land, help in the maintenance of the house and gardening
    If you know about building and eco-solution you are really welcome.
    The help can change every day, from cleaning the farm to paint a wall, planting some plants, to restyling some forniture, if you are good in something better if not we try to teach you or give you the work more appropriate about your capacity.
    Always we ask you an help in the maintenance of the common spaces of the house and to ma rain clean your accommodation

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    Always, we have been traveling around the world. We hope that one day we could know more countrys than today. doing this it's esencial to know more that one language, so that's why practicing it's very important for us, so if you wan't to make the interchange it's perfecto for us. (What we can teach Spanish, English & Italian... what we can learn/talk maybe a little of french.)

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Thiny house closed to our house with a doble and and eventually an individual bed. we all share the same bathroom and the common spaces of the house. The house is in the middle of the countryside, whit a magnificent view of Segesta temple. Here you can relax, no noise and only nature.
    The house is located between Castellammare and Calatafimi.
    Will offer you all the principals meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
    We can also go and pick you up at the bus or train station (Calatafimi, Alcamo or Castellammare).
    Also we like going to the beach where you can go with us and make some touristic tours.
    If you need we can also take you to the town.trying to coordinate with our disponibility.
    Remember that we are far from the town (more then 45 minutes walking)

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    segesta, thermals, castellammare del golfo, calatafimi, san vito lo capo, climbing, paragliding, sailing, kayaking, bars, trekking, etc...
    If it's possible we can go with you.

  • 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

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    At the time, different people have arrive with their campers, but we have to notify to you that we are in a dirty road and not for all is easy to drive up it. We have different places to park in our project we hope one that to have a perfect place were to park, we did a roadtrip from USA to panama with a motorhome so we know perfect what you need and what you are looking for.

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    Depends on any case... At the time, one couple came with their dog and we never have any problem, but we also have a dog and some cats, in the hill there are also other dogs that run free. (we live in a "farm" so if the pet make complications with the other animals... we don't want it)

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

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