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I’m Francois - a multi-instrumentalist, carpenter, and craftsman with experience in woodworking, stone building, and instrument making. For the past four years I’ve been living on a beautiful piece of land surrounded by ancient olive trees, with rivers flowing right beside us.
If you love nature, hiking, simple living, and community lifestyle, you might fit in well here.
I am slowly building and improving the land, creating a small community-based life connected closely with nature. I’m looking for people who would like to be part of this journey and help with different kinds of projects depending on your interests and skills.
We are located in a small and peaceful community where neighbors live harmoniously with nature. There are hikes, rivers, and beautiful beaches nearby, and we are only a 35-minute drive from Rethymno.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The cultural exchange here happens in organic ways.
We share daily life together on the land, which creates space for connection, learning, and exchanging ideas. People who come here often bring their own cultures, stories, skills, and ways of living.
You can learn practical skills such as basic carpentry, stone work, gardening, and simple off-grid living. At the same time, there is also exchange through music, cooking, and shared meals. We sometimes have spontaneous music sessions, where everyone is welcome to join or share their own instruments and sounds.
Help
The land is a work in progress and I am always upgrading, building and improving- it’s here that I would love some help from you. The help really depends on your skills and what projects we are in the middle of, but to give you some idea this could include: clearing the land, cutting the grass, upgrading the irrigation, support with carpentry tasks, varnishing, watering gardens etc etc. It can be helpful if you have any technical skills, but this is not a must - willingness to help and a good attitude are just as important.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
There are 2 caravans, a yurt, a treehouse, and a van and we will host you according to availability.
Life on the land is shared with others - sometimes people stay longterm, sometimes friends or volunteers passing through shortly. There is usually a small changing group here.
We live in a community style way (simple and unstructured way).
Ingredients for 3 meals a day is provided. Some days we do shard meals.
What else ...
We like to eat together but this happens quite spontaneously. It depends on who is around and who feels inspired to create shared moments. Some periods are more social, others more quiet. We follow the natural rhythm of the days.
Besides us there are also nice neighbours around to connect with (who also live in a nature-connected way).
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
To some degree we could host you, but we would need to talk more details. We dont have really proper office space etc.
Space for parking camper vans
We would need to talk more details regarding this
Can possibly accept pets
We have cats on the lans, so it would need to be in coordination with this
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Many cats
