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We are a couple of young hearted people and we bought an estate in the mountains a few yers ago. After some necessary renovations we finally moved into our new home and we have so many ideas and projects we would like to do but we realized we need help! We have chickens, sheeps, lambs, geese and a house cat, of course. Our dream is to create an all natural and self-sufficient farm in the near future.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will be able to get familiar with the Italian language and traditions, manage a chicken coop, collect wild herbs, recognize poisonous plants, basic shepperding, looking for mushrooms, walnuts, chestnust etc.
Fabrizio speaks and understands English well while Levi, who has a more basic understanding of English (still improving her speaking) can both offer benefit from listening to family conversations. :)
Levi is interested in herbs and will be able to introduce you to some poisonous plants that she cultivates herself and other spontaneous ones that are excellent in the kitchen and for body care.
It will then be fun to learn how to take care of the hens in our chicken coop and also want to learn how to manage a very small flock of sheep.
Help
We need help with yearly outdoor projects including: gardening, shepparding, feeding and maintaining chickens and wood splitting and stacking etc.
We always need help to regularly upkeep the estate: painting, mortar repair,small building projects, wood working......... strong arms and good skills are more than welcome :)
We also need to finish wire mesh fencing around the border of our property (about 1km) to protect our animals and leave them as free as possible. We have already started this project but it still undergoing and any help will be appreciated.
Many fields have to be cut for collecting hay to store in the barn in the winter.
Every year we have a delivery of wood logs of various sizes wich we required assistance cutting in smaller sections, splitting and stacking in the wood shed for the winter.
Regarding gardens, the method of the "elementary" garden is definitely our way, it is a non-tillage of the soil and the use of a thick hay mulch. It would be nice to experiment gardening in this way with someone and we're also open to new ideas as well :)
We intend to purchase 100 to 200 different types of fruit trees in spring 2024 to create a small orchard on our property. We're looking for help in planting these trees in late April or May, depending on the weather.
Languages
Languages spoken
Italian: Fluent
English: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We speak quite good English but we have few opportunities to practice. So, we are more than happy to speak English with those who prefer to communicate in English. We will be happy to help you improve your Italian who those who have a basic understanding of the language.
Accommodation
Our house is a two stories, we have a dedicated bedroom for guests. We can accodmodate couples in a double bed or singles in a bunk bed. We usually offer guests there own private bathroom on the second level with all the facilities. We also have a shared bathroom on the ground level. We are a couple, on a few occasions our two adult children will be at home with us. We have a cat that spends most of the time inside the house. We do not smoke. We eat a wide variety of food, with the most focus in the italian food. We do eat meat and, if necessary, we can easily accomodate vegetarians. Unfortunately we're unable to accomodate vegans or those with celiac disease. If you have some other food request please feel free to message us.
What else ...
The area is at the end of the Camonica Valley, on the top of the Iseo Lake. The valley is famous for its rock carvings (UNESCO site since 1979) and the pyramids of Zone, a geologichal treasure.
The nearest village overlooks the shores of Iseo Lake and the house is located in a quiet location, half an hour's drive from the town, up on the mountain. You can take pleasant walks in nature and reach a beautiful refuge not far away. If interested, we can provide you additional information on how to access or travel to different areas of interest. We have both phisical maps or digital PDF's of the surrounding area.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have access to the internet line, W-DSL service
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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È stato fantastico sin dal primo momento, in cui son stato accolto in maniera calorosa e fatto sentire a casa sin da subito.
Le ore di lavoro erano bilanciate con il tempo libero, nel quale sia la Levi che il Fabri erano sempre disposti a scambiare due chiacchiere molto volentieri.
Fabrizio è… read more
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È stato fantastico sin dal primo momento, in cui son stato accolto in maniera calorosa e fatto sentire a casa sin da subito.
Le ore di lavoro erano bilanciate con il tempo libero, nel quale sia la Levi che il Fabri erano sempre disposti a scambiare due chiacchiere molto volentieri.
Fabrizio è… read more
The original plan was to stay with them about ten days but on the second day we (me and Ace my boyfriend who decided to join me 😊) decided to stay longer and ended up staying a whole beautiful month!
I loved the balance of doing the tasks given to us on our own and working on bigger… read more
They live in a wonderful dreamhouse with all the comforts that a workawayer could wish for. I had a beautiful room of my own in a house filled with mistery and magic! 🧙♂️✨️
The view outside the house is spectacular, you can see the great lake Iseo surrounded by the hills.
It's the best place for an animal… read more
First of all even before coming to their place, it was very easy to organize our stay with them.
And it was only the beginning : 24 hours after arriving, we already felt at home.
Fabri and Levi are the most welcoming hosts, they shared with us the few important… read more
Grazie… read more
I helped with preparing for winter by chopping the wood and before I knew it the 2 weeks were over.
We are sure that… read more
Fabrizio and Levina are absolutely wonderful people. They are friendly and warmly, I felt very welcome. Fabrizio is a amazing cook and the meals were very tasty.
I worked… read more
It was a truly perfect experience. They help us a lot, they bring their knowledge, some tips, their smiles. After one month it was strange to wake up and don't have those beautiful persons in the house. They are very skilled, in every tasks. They really love nature and they was more than the perfect partners to… read more
We helped them to cut the wood for the winter, did some gardening, renovate the roof of the chickencoop and others little jobs ... Moreover they were very cheerful with some projects that we proposed and carried out to them such as the creation of a… read more
We helped them build their new garden house, cutted some wood and collected some hay for Billy, the cutest donkey and the sheeps. Besides that, we continued to build the fence around their property, which has a really, really nice view on the lake, some… read more
