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Hi, my name is Clementina, I'm 48 years old and 8 years ago I bought an old stone house in the middle of the forest, in the "appennino ligure" hills.
The project consist in renovating the house using natural materials and care for the land following permaculture principles.
Part of the house is dedicated to the activities and workshops we organise and often host. We have a nice yoga shala, a classroom for more manual activities and many facilities openair such as compost toilets, showers, outdoor kitchen, sweat lodge...
The idea is to start a small ecovillage, where we can live 4-5 people in harmony with nature.
We are a group of friends who are involved, on different levels, in the project, some come for the weekend, some will come and stay long term during the summer, although at the moment it's only me living full time here.
We are located in a beautiful wild forest in the north of Italy. We almost finished renovating the farm stone building from the 17th century but there's always something to fix or to build...
We constantly work in the vegetable garden, planting trees, keeping the brumbles down, ecc. There's a lot to do as the place was abandoned for 20 years!
The property consist of 50 hectars (mainly forest) in a natural park, we have a swimmable river near the house, a lot of nice walks, mountain bike, etc.
The nearest city is Genova (40km), the closest town Ovada.
We offer vegetarian food, mostly grown on site or from neighbouring farms.
We have amazingly good spring water coming out of a rock in front of the house!
We have two cats: Fumo and Cobra and a dog Savia.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Travellers who come to our place will experience living in harmony with nature and trying to be as much as possible self sustained. There's always friends coming to the house so you will learn more about local culture.
Help
The help required will be around 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, plus sometimes cooking together. We need help in the renovation of the house with natural materials such as cob and wood, we also need help in the gardens, we will work in the synergic vegetable garden, cutting grass, preparing wood for winter, collecting wild edible plants, planting trees. Part of the volunteering job will consist in the general maintenance of the house and we will share the cooking duties (also making bread and pizzas with sour dough in the wood oven), we might have some animals like hens and donkeys in the future, so we will need to look after them as well.
VERY IMPORTANT: Thanks for applying ONLY if you are adaptable to rustic life and willing to work in team
We try to have a sustainable way of living so please don't bring any chemical soaps and try to avoid food with a lot of packaging, we also use compost toilets to be more in tune with nature.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
I would love to learn more about spanish and portuguese
Accommodation
You can choose between privacy in your own tent as the land is big and we have some basic camping facilities (compost toilet, outdoor shower), or a shared basic accomodation inside the house (max 4 people sleeping in a mezzanine)
What else ...
during time off you can enjoy the surrounding nature, go for a walk or swim in the river, you can also reach genova with a train (from ovada station).
IMPORTANT: WE ACCEPT ONLY TRAVELLERS WITH INSURANCE.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
There's a nice office space for digital nomads, the internet connection is good but not amazing, expecially for upload. Zoom meetings work well.
Space for parking camper vans
We can host a small or medium campervan in a nice, flat and shady field, 300 mt from the house. We cannot provide electricity nor water in the field but closed by you can recharge and refill... the compost toilet is not far neither.
Can possibly accept pets
We can accept workawayers with very calm and kind dogs, only if you sleep in tents or campervan. Most of the land is not fenced so it is the workawayers responsability to look after their pets
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (19)
She is very helpful, reliable and fun to be around, we had nice conversations about many different subjects.
Thanks so much for the help Giorgia, u… read more
Clementina and her animals, the dog Savia - aka Pippi :-) - and the two cats Cobra and Fumo are very hospitable, the place is immersed in nature all around with the chirping of cicadas accompanying you from… read more
Take care Mees and come to see us again!
Thanks a lot
It was easy to feel at home, because the house is very cosy and Clementina, her friends and the other volunteers were all very good company :)
But also when you’re feeling antisocial, there’s enough… read more
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She is very helpful, reliable and fun to be around, we had nice conversations about many different subjects.
Thanks so much for the help Giorgia, u… read more
Clementina and her animals, the dog Savia - aka Pippi :-) - and the two cats Cobra and Fumo are very hospitable, the place is immersed in nature all around with the chirping of cicadas accompanying you from… read more
Take care Mees and come to see us again!
Thanks a lot
It was easy to feel at home, because the house is very cosy and Clementina, her friends and the other volunteers were all very good company :)
But also when you’re feeling antisocial, there’s enough… read more
We had great time playing together ukulele and guitar duo. She is a kind soul and she helped in the work we needed to do.
Thanks for your precious help and good luck with your travelling.
take care <3
She is good company and we had nice time together. Hope to see u again Esmee!
We reccomend hosting them.
See u soon guys, enjoy your trip.
I did not stay for long, but I still managed to learn so many… read more
Come back to visit soon Georgia! <3
Clem impressed me, she is full of qualities and knowledges. She lives in a… read more
Higly recommended!
thanks so much for your help Lu! come back when u want.
clem
thanks so much for your help Elin!
They stayed here for almost a month. They are hard and proactive workers. It felt so relaxing just giving them tasks and not worrying about the output, the made a new office in the house and renovated the outfit of an old caravan, fixing leaks and making it look super cozy. They are also fantastic company, we had… read more
The house and area is perfect and we aspire to live like Clem one day. It took her 20 years to find her place but it was definitely worth the wait.
Not only did we enjoy the work we did, but we learnt loads about… read more
The activities were various and nice.
You, your friends and the volunteers were all very plaisant poeple.
And the place you decided to settle in is just perfect I already miss the river :)
Good luck in your project !!!
clem
