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Learn new skills, helping with olive trees in Tuscany, Italy

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Description
REMENBER HEALTLY LIFE BECOME FROM POSITIVE THINKING, SERENE FRAME OF MIND, ORGANIC FOOD AND USEFULL ACTIVITY ON COUNTRYSIDE. HERE WE HAVE GOOD LANDSCAPE ON SUNLIGTH AND UNCONTAMINATED AIR. I am an organic farmer who applies the olistic biodynamic method of cultivation. We produce extravingin olive oil, fruit juice & jams, dryfruit and many other products from biogarden vegetable. We acept workawaer motivated in exchange of cultural background, useful llife experiences and great skills. We can offer experience and solution on biodynamic coltivation and self sufficient support about circular economy, workhorse training, bbeskeeping, logging in family, or tenting during good season, or parking van and roulotte.
We are placed in the hillig Chianti area 30 km from Florence, 40 km from Siena, 50 from Pisa. My house is in a contest of neighbourhood families. I have 1 small dog. In family you can devide our tipical toskany vegetarian kitchen and genuine food from our garden. We dont use to smoke, drogs & alchool. Some days we go to help others farmers, to visit friends and interesting artistic-culture areas.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
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
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What's this?
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Lerning about biodynamic and sustainable method of coltivation, subsistance economy, horse training and cultivation, beeskeeping, lessons and practice italian language or vegetaria-vegan kitchen.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
I would like to receive an efective help in gardening, olive cultivation, and general maintenance.
In october, november, december I need help in picking olives to produce extravirgin oil. In febraury, march april you can help in pruning olivetrees.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
German: Beginner
Accommodation
A bedroom in the house to share family life, services and obligations. In a good season is possible to tenting or camping in van or roulotte.
What else ...
Transport connection with most of artistic town (Florence, Siena , Pisa.....) and medieval villages. Walking in wanderfull sights panorama. Visiting othes intersting people working in different activities.
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
25 hours a week max

Host ref number: 416769152125

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3 Nov 2023

Left by Workawayer (Anne Claire & Julien) for host

L'expérience avec Roberto a été intéressante. Même si je n'ai au final pas beaucoup travaillé chez lui, il m'a fait connaître cette femme exeptionnelle Alessandra qui habite proche de la côte. J'ai eu le plaisir de partager toutes les tâches à faire dans son auberge.

(Very good )

31 Mar 2023

Left by Workawayer (Eleanor) for host

Expect an authentic Tuscan farm stay!! There is a bit of dirt, not everything is super clean, lack of water and hot water showers but it is not unbearable!! Roberto was incredibly welcoming to me and I am very grateful for his hospitality and cooking. Although I didn’t stay long due to my flight plans I really enjoyed the work (weeding in the Veg… read more

(Very good )

19 Jan 2023

Left by Workawayer (Issa) for host

I spent about 9 days with Roberto, Alessandra, and Fiorella. They are amazing amazing people, and I am lucky to have them as new friends and to have worked with them.

The work entailed clearing overgrowth around olive trees, cutting wood, moving wood, clearing grass around vegetables. From these simple tasks, I learned from each of them about… read more

(Excellent )

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3 Nov 2023

Left by Workawayer (Anne Claire & Julien) for host

(Very good)

31 Mar 2023

Left by Workawayer (Eleanor) for host

(Very good)

19 Jan 2023

Left by Workawayer (Issa) for host

(Excellent)

15 Jun 2021

Left by Workawayer (Ruben) for host

After a long time, I wanna say Grazie to roberto for my stay full of experience! I've been with Roberto for almost two weeks in October, and I had a really good time. The work was honest and fun, and defenitely doable for everybody who seeks a very simple lifestyle. if you Want to live luxurious with only a bit of work, then you are wrong. but if… read more

(Very good)

1 Nov 2020

Left by Workawayer (Fabrizio) for host

The experience at Roberto's place was challenging. He is an interesting person but his lifestyle is quite particular.
There were some issues like lack of water, missing wifi, and the overall hygienic conditions mainly in the WC and in the kitchen.
Me and my co-volunteer Ali were sleeping in a very small room but the problem also there was the… read more

(Neutral)

30 Oct 2020

Left by Workawayer (Ali) for host

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(Neutral)

11 Nov 2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Andreas)

ANDREAS in the nice period he spent in my farm helping in olive harvest, gardening, take care of the house and resolving many unexpected problems was un open mind skilfull person. Active and sportif man : he can climb safety olive trees and operete with atletic mouvements. We exchange intense experiences from personal life's conception and… read more

(Very good)

11 Nov 2019

Left by Workawayer (Andreas) for host

The time at Roberto was a challenge as I was looking for it. For me these were new activities, a completely different environment and a life in unfamiliar circumstances. The stay broadened my horizons and strengthened my appreciation of what already existed. For a stay with Roberto, his wife doesn't live with him anymore, you have to be open for… read more

(Very good)

2 Dec 2018

Left by Workawayer (Joseph) for host

Living and working with Roberto was a truly authentic Tuscan experience. The food was honest home cooking. The banter around the house was just what you might expect from hard working italians. Harvesting olives was straight out of a novel, though hours sometimes exceeded the amount listed in the profile. And Roberto himself was a fountain of… read more

(Very good)

25 Nov 2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Joseph)

Thanks to Joseph we have spent 2 weeks of interesting notice, ideas and life experience. Joseph fel us with skill method in our long olive harvest. His interest for italian language, thanks his ancestral italian origin, is worth admirable and bring us to a good convertation. Sometime Joseph entertain us on reciting by heart many verses of… read more

(Very good)

7 Feb 2018

Left by Workawayer (Gustavo) for host

My experience workingaway with roberto was the best possible!! I learned so much with him and marcella about life it self. Roberto even took me with him to a trip up north italy so i had the opportunity to get to know more italy then i could ever imagine. Even when staying at his property which is beautiful, he would take me out to train stations… read more

(Excellent)

31 Dec 2017

Left by Workawayer (Sara) for host

I think of my time in Tuscany with Roberto often, and in my ten months that I spent in Italy, this was my favourite experience. The farm itself is quite rustic, water temperature can be very temperamental - but for me this was no issue and all part of the experience! I was made to feel so so welcome.
It was so interesting for me to go through the… read more

(Excellent)

6 Dec 2016

Left by Workawayer (Stefan) for host

This was the first experience on workaway for me and it was great. It was very interesting to see how the olive cultivation works and especially the process of milling. It is a very beautiful piece of nature in the tuscany with cypresses and large vineyards and olive groves around there.
Thank you very much Roberto for the possibility to stay… read more

(Good)

5 Nov 2016

Left by host for Workawayer (Andreas & Telse)

(Excellent)

5 Nov 2016

Left by Workawayer (Andreas & Telse) for host

This workaway is perfect for anyone who is not looking for a comfortable place to stay, but for a different adventure.

Life in the hills of Poggio Antico is simple, but healthy.
The host Roberto knows the community around him.
We visited a guy who produces beautiful pottery or talked to people passing by in the car.

The key to staying… read more

(Very good)

1 Dec 2015

Left by Workawayer (Jana) for host

Again, it was just wonderful spending whole days out in the beautiful olive fields, up on the trees, down doing the "networking" and enjoying the company of Roberto, Macella and the Co-Volunteer Colby.
I love this place a lot so I keep returning :)
Some things never change, but still, every day is new there and life never gets boring :)
… read more

(Excellent)

4 Nov 2014

Left by Workawayer (Camilla) for host

I spent two weeks with marcella and Roberto and had an amazing time. The work can be hard and there was no wifi or hot water but I really enjoyed it anyway. The food was amazing and Roberto was a great host taking us into Siena an Venice. It was a great chance to experience some Italian culture instead of tourist stuff. I wish I had stayed longer.… read more

(Good)

25 Jan 2014

Left by Workawayer (Erin) for host

I spent just a little over a week with Roberto and I wanted to cancel my ticket to Australia and stay for a month! I arrived for the first week of November when olive picking was just getting started. I shared a room with another worker in the house and had breakfast with Roberto and his wife Marcelo. I had spent two weeks traveling in other parts… read more of Italy, and every time I tried to speak Italian, people would speak English back because they knew I was English speaking. But Marcelo only speaks Italian so it was a great way to practice! But eh end of the week, I could understand the majority of what she was saying and could very brokenly respond. And she was just hilarious and singing very heartily all the time. She made some amazing meals and there was always plenty.

While I was there more and more workers arrived, including some of Roberto's friends from Venice, who also spoke mostly Italian but wanted to practice language with us. His neighbors arrived to help as well. It was such an amazing thing to see all these people arrive to help Roberto with his olives. You could tell this was a great traditional event for people from the city to move out to the country to pick. It was also evident that all these people returned not only for the tradition, but because they had such high respect and admiration for Roberto. And I have joined their team! No matter how stressed he was about getting the olives in before the rain came, he was gentle spoken and very kind.

Sometimes we would pack a picnic and take it with us and eat under the trees, take a little nap, then work until it was getting dark. Picking olives doesn't always seem like hard work, because you're either chatting away with your picking team about whatever or in a quiet reflective silence, but you feel it at the end of the day and sleep so well. Rotating jobs makes the work pass easily. Crawling on the ground to pick fallen olives, spreading nets, combing the branches, climbing in the trees or ladders, and gathering the nets into crates makes the time pass quickly. We did start bringing snacks with to get us through until lunch time. There was a pool at the top of the hill we could use as well. No one else would join the Icelandic working and I in the slightly chilly waters, but it was refreshing. There was nothing more rewarding than the first lunch we all had together made of pasta covered in our newly pressed oil.

Roberto has some Internet access, but it was easier to just go into town maybe twice a week to find wifi or use the library (you need a cell phone to get a wifi password at the library). There are quite a few nice little restaurants to get a glass of wine and check emails. If you go into montesepoli, look for the little store that sells new wine. You can get bottles filled and corked for just a few euros.

I would love to go back every year to Roberto's to help pick olives. It was an ideal Tuscany adventure!

(Excellent)

4 Dec 2013

Left by Workawayer (Silvia) for host

Iff you wanna spend some time with Roberto perhaps you have to know some things about the work. The place is at 10 km from Montespertoli and Certaldo, more or less, so if you wanna know some places of Tuscany perhaps you are the difficulty of the distance. But if you need to arrive at some place, Roberto can help you.
About the work, iwas hard.… read more

(Neutral)

2 Dec 2013

Left by Workawayer (Victoria) for host

I spent three weeks here and loved it. Roberto is very kind, thoughtful and welcoming and Marcella is a wonderful cook.

If you are prepared to work hard, you will really enjoy this place. You get out of it what you put in. The hours are long, but the time goes really quickly; climbing trees all day is wonderful fun, especially in the… read more

(Very good)

2 Dec 2013

Left by Workawayer (Hanne) for host

i spent the last week of november in Montespertoli with roberto and marcella (the foto of the above host comments doesn't show marcella but a workawayer). in his profile roberto asks for effective help and that is exactly what he wants. breakfast at 7:00 h working in the olive garden from 8:00 to 17:00 - always starting one more tree after dawn… read more

(Neutral)

18 Aug 2013

Left by host for Workawayer (Lizzy81)

Lisa was a nice an sensible person; responsable in the differents farming activities, but she like to know in time the day program.
She was patient to bear my bad temper. We spent together amazing moments of work and relax. Roberto

(Very good)

13 May 2013

Left by host for Workawayer (Barbara)

I never meet a responsable willed yung person as Barbara. She has showed me an enthusistic attitude agaist every farm activity. We share hard work with amusing exsperiences. I hope we start a friendly relation to be improbed by future oportunity to meet again.

(Very good)

12 May 2013

Left by Workawayer (Barbara) for host

I stayed more than 2 weeks here and it was a really good experience. Sharing the life of Roberto and Marcella, thats totally different than my own one.
I never worked such a long time outside!
Roberto is a good teacher in gardening and marcella is a wonderful cook. Thanks a lot for teaching me how to make CECINA (: I enjoyed the time we shared!

(Very good)

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