Biodynamic farming, cooking, carpentry and building help on a Cycladic island, Greece

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

    We need help with the biodynamic vegetable gardens and also welcome any cooking, carpentry, or building skilled Workawayers.

    We also need help making jams and marmelades, ferments and canning. Soap and cosmetic skilled workers welcome. We will be working on organic clothes tie and dye using natural dyes from garden plants and vegetables.

    We are currently working on a playground for the children for which we need skilled help and would like to work on a garden art project, with the creation of maze, possibly the reproduction of the labyrinth of the Chartres cathedral, with dry stones or any other idea.

    We would like to build a comfortable green house to start our heirlooms and will probably recycle plastic water bottles as the windows.

    Our beautiful traditional stone and limestone chicken coop needs an inside upgrade, we will also be welcoming bees and planting a field of lavender, on which we must fox the irrigation system. Biodynamic bee keepers welcome also!!

    We work with electro-culture, so copper welding skills welcomed and magneto-culture for the bees. We need help with creating copper structures, coil binding and would like to work on orgonite towers/ structures around the garden.

    Wood carving, sculpting, tiling and marble skills welcomed for several art and renovation projects around the premises.

    Finally, we need skilled help with scanning, preparing and pigment printing of photos and art postcards.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Enjoy the beautiful Greek island life.

  • Help

    Help

    We need assistance with the gardens, pruning, harvesting, maintaining, planning and developing, help with animal care (cats, hens and dogs). Composting skills, biodynamic/ permaculture skills and transformation of harvest experience, such as, canning, jamming, vinification, tincturing and fermenting are welcome as well as carpentry and building skills.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    French: Fluent
    Italian: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We provide a beautiful separate 3 bedroom flat (2 double, one single, sitting/ dining room, kitchen, bathroom and terrace) for Workawayers to share, 2 minute walk from the garden. Lunch and dinner at our home, which everyone helps prepare in rotation if no workawayer, at the time, is exclusively tasked with cooking and a bi-weekly biodynamic vegetable basket from our gardens offered.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    Our village is a 7 minute drive from an astonishing kite-surfing beach and 7 minutes from the main Town, where all amenities and shops can be found.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    5 hours/day, 5 days/week maximum

Host ref number: 456994177735

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