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We are currently looking for two volunteers for Fall 2025!
Please read our full profile to understand requested tasks. We will give preference to a couple or pair.
We are Tori (American) and Gian Luca (Sardinian). We spend our time between both places, and when we are in Sardinia we have many projects that we would like help with. We ourselves met through Workaway and feel passionate about this kind of exchange and opportunity. Our project includes many areas of smaller projects (listed below) which we focus on depending on the time of year.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Self development
Politics / Social justice
Sustainability
Culture
Farming
Movies & TV
Pets
Events & social
Art & design
Plant care
Music
Gardening
DIY & crafts
Cooking & food
Architecture
Books
Animals
Yoga / Wellness
Camping
Nature
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Between us, our family and local villagers, we love to exchange traditions, recipes and stories. We also appreciate the knowledge and ideas that anyone can bring to our project from their own skills and experiences. We are happy to teach anyone willing to learn the skills and things we have learned.
Help
We have a piece of land and an old house in the historic center that we would like to restore. Below is a list of our sub-projects that we refer back to. Specifically for this Fall 2025 we need help moving large stones and installing a fence on the border of our land. Therefore, we prefer someone with travelers insurance and who doesn’t mind working in challenging terrain.
olive oil is for our own consumption.
- pruning, harvesting, experimenting with viticulture.- exploring the world of olive growing, harvesting and producing olive oil for our own consumption. - create a garden laboratory, design ecosystems resilient to heat, and rainwater collection systems.- celebrate Sardinian gastronomic tradition- dive in to the world of pomodori (tomatoes)
What we ask of volunteers;
Passion and curiosity- we are looking for people motivated to learn and experiment, willing to get involved and collaborate with others.
Flexibility- you will be called upon to carry out various activities, adapting to the rhythms of nature and the needs of the project.
Respect for the environment- we ask you to share our values and our commitment to reducing our environmental impact.
ACTIVITY CALENDAR
Here you can find the activities and workshops we are planning to make for the next months:
- Pruning, Vine pruning and Santu Juanne (February); Olive pruning (March/April)
- Cleaning, Clean this place from plastic (February)
- Building, Recover the pruning branches, finish cleaning the border (February/March); build the entrance road (April); build the ponds (February/March); design the greenhouse; realization of the Landmark a physical element positioned in a strategic point which will have the function of giving an image of the territory that surrounds us (April/May).
- Planting, plant succulent plants (prickly pear and aloe) and local essences (February/March); preparation and daily management of the summer vegetable garden (February/March/April…).
- Farming, take care of Poppi and Bernardo (very good dogs), Jane and Curcuma (naughty cats) and Coque, Pesca, Aria, Snow White and Ze' Pandora (the young ladies of the countryside) on a daily basis (Everyday)
- Gardening, design and create the garden of “the Casa” (March/April); cleaning and pruning garden “Cortile Pala Carboni” (March/April)
- Foraging, walk in the countryside in search of wild edible plants (asparagus, wild garlic and onions, wild herbs, etc) (every week).
- Landscaping, both urban and rural sensory walks, observations of natural and anthropic elements (every week); research and study (and cataloging of species) of the spontaneous vegetation present in the area (every week).
- Lab; gastronomic meetings with the creation of typical food products of this area (every month); activation of Landmark (April/May); GreenHouse Discoparty, Dancing among the flowers (end of May).
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Between us we mostly speak English, but also Italian!
Accommodation
Multi-family house-one part is where we stay and the other part for volunteers with two bedrooms and a shared bathroom, kitchen, living space and terrace.
We will provide ingredients for 3 meals per day, 1 or 2 of which we can make and share together if preferred by the volunteers. It is very important to us not to waste or throw away food when not necessary. We are very intentional with our resources.
What else ...
Martis has a waterfall and a petrified forest, both walking distance. There is nice walking and biking, and for those who don’t have a car there is a bus that can take you to the nearest city and surrounding areas. We are in the middle of the countryside and there are only two markets and four bars in the village. One can find a lot of peace and tranquillity here.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Flora
Flora is the true boss of the house
Pandora, Aria, Bianca Neve
We have three chickens that help us maintain the land and we get eggs from.
Jane and Curcuma
Curcuma (left) is Jane’s son and some may argue her twin. They hang out and live their best lives at the family land.
Bernardo (2 years)
Bernardo is Poppi’s son and an attention lover!
Poppi (4 years)
Gian Luca found Poppi as a tiny puppy and decided to keep her. She then had puppies and we kept one!
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We ate lunch every day together and we had some really valuable… read more
Tori and Gian Luca have a very nice way of planning the tasks and providing instructions and guidance. I learned a lot about pruning and gardening and also cooking.
It was… read more
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We ate lunch every day together and we had some really valuable… read more
Tori and Gian Luca have a very nice way of planning the tasks and providing instructions and guidance. I learned a lot about pruning and gardening and also cooking.
It was… read more
