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UPDATE DECEMBER 2019!
Hello Travellers,
I will need help with:
- painting, cleaning and organising the house
- collecting and chopping wood
- animal care
- building stone walls
- land clearing
Hello and welcome!
The main project consists in the recovery of a splendid house in the mountains with a mill for grinding chestnuts.
The place is really immersed in the green of tuscany (garfagnana) with over 300 chestnut trees. There are natural waterfalls of 5 and 20 meters just 15 minutes walk away and many fantastic walking trails.
I currently have about 100 practically free chickens and a female German shepherd who helps me look after them. There is also a pond with trout that I restored.
I have a vegetable garden and many wild herbs, berries, nuts and mushrooms to harvest and preserve. So even in the winter I can provide good food which is sourced locally. If you like I can teach you to cook using traditional Italian methods.
The drinking water comes from a natural spring. With this I also make my own soap which many people consider therapeutic. The farm has a river running through it, and in the future I would like to create hydro-electricity from this.
Right now I'm concentrating on renovating the bathroom, although I do have a toilet, shower and bidet working with hot water made with a wood-fired heating cooker.
Please note my place is a bit isolated in the mountains, suitable for nature lovers. If you dont arrive by car you can take a bus or train from Lucca to Coreglia and from there I can pick you up.
thanks in advance and see you soon ...
Matteo
Gardening
Building
General Maintenance
Cooking / shopping
Farmstay
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Animal care
Language practice
Art project
The advantages are room and board in a private room available in a magical place with a view of the mountains, partly self-produced spring water (eggs, chickens, chestnut flour, mushrooms and what is in the garden)
I request assistance to whiten the house but also to prune the chestnut wood, restore the dirt road, the vegetable garden, the chicken coop and the orchard.
English, Italian, Spanish
for sleeping there are various possibilities, a private double room, tents and for eating there is a comfortable equipped kitchen
in your free time you can swim in the pristine stream, walk in the woods on top of the mountains following the paths of the cai or visit the neighboring villages for example barga or the famous wind cave, pick mushrooms if there are and more
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
More than two
5 hours, 5 days
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