Join our family's life project in Calabria, Italy

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  Description

  Hey there,
  we are a family of 5: me (SIlvia), Claudio (my husband) and our 3 sons aged 10, 5, 3 (plus 2 cats, 2 dogs and some chickens).
  
  After living in Berlin for almost 10 years, in 2020 we moved back to Calabria, pushed by our need to feel closer to Nature and to go back to our roots.
  
  We live and carry on our life project in San Vito sullo Ionio, on a land of 1 hectare with an old rural house on it. Currently we sleep in our camper using the ground floor of the house as living space. We have the basic "facilities", such as compost toilet, hot water, solar energy, available and improving them constantly.
  
  The most of the food we eat is coming from our garden and from the wood. We do not to use chemicals and we are constantly experimenting alternative agriculture methods in order to grow our food naturally while regenerating the soil.
  We use to store fruits and vegetables in jars or dried. We bake our own bread and pizza using the natural yeast and this year we are planting our own wheat for the first time.
  
  Our 3 kids are here with us, we do homeschooling and we take care of them. We read, have fun with music, play with clay, go out for work/playing and more. For that reason it would be preferable if you like to have kids around.
  
  Here we don't have a TV, we use mobile phones only when needed and in general we try to keep our family as much screen-free as possible, enjoying the world surrounding us :)
  
  We also enjoy our time meeting our fiends, helping each other, sharing meals and doing activities together.
  
  We still have much to improve and to learn... and of course we are glad to have guests willing to join us in this adventure.
  
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  #homeschooling
  #permaculture
  #natural agriculture
  #offgrid

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  Animal Care

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  House sitting
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  Interests

  

  Hitchhiking

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  Art & design

  

  Hiking

  

  Beach

  

  Languages

  

  Photography

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Music

  

  Sustainability

  

  Pets

  

  Van life

  

  Self development

  

  Farming

  

  Animals

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Gardening

  

  Plant care

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Mountain
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  With our guests we love to exchange language, recipes, skills, knowledge, ideas, moment, dreams...

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  Help

  We need help with gardening, maintaining and improving/beautifying the spaces around, cooking and other everyday's duties.
  
  Projects in progress:
  
  - winter veggie garden/weeding/harvesting
  - new compost toilet box
  
  You can carry on tasks together with us or autonomously, but we are always here to assist or learn from you.
  We'd like to share our time with you in a flexible way, planning together the tasks for the upcoming days.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Italian: Fluent
  German: Intermediate
  Polish: Intermediate
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  We are always open to learn new languages and we are glad to share our knowledge of Italian with anybody who's interested in it.
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  Accommodation

  Since the house at the moment is not fully habitable, we can offer a tent and sleeping bag. It can be built outside or in the upper floor of the house, if it's too cold or wet. For short stays we do also have a sofa bed available in the common space.
  
  You can park here your car, van, camper van or caravan.
  We are happy to share our food, but if you are a big family we could ask you to contribute somehow.
  
  We are happy to discover new recipes and get suggestions.
  Our diet is mostly vegetarian, we eat local meat from time to time and we avoid trash food. If you have special dietary restrictions, please let us know in advance.

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  What else ...

  San Vito is a nice village surrounded by woods and crossed by 3 small rivers.
  
  Among the many sights around we suggest to visit Soverato, on the east coast, and Serra San Bruno, in the mountains nearby.
  We are on the"Kalabria Coast to Coast" a suggestive trekking path crossing the region from Soverato to Pizzo Calabro .
  
  If you travel by car you can easily visit the region since we are right in the middle of it.
  
  Bus service is also available in the village.
  
  We can also lend you a bike or give you a lift when possible.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  We are glad to host digital nomads. We ourself work remotely using our mobile internet connection. For logistic reasons it would be preferable if you use your own.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Glad to host camper vans and similar.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  To be discussed in advance.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

  Plico

  Flipi

  Nina

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