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Welcome! 🧑🌾
We are a permaculture family farm engaged in ecological production🏡. Permaculture is an approach that aims to create self-sustaining, productive systems that mimic natural processes and are environmentally and socially responsible🌍. We apply this approach in our daily lives as well as in the fields of agriculture and animal husbandry🌱. We use diversity and polycultures, incorporate animals and their waste into the system, and practice recycling♻️. In this way, we create a system that supports natural processes and improves the soil over time.
Our journey started when my wife and I began looking for healthy food🥗 to feed our son🚼. As we explored the food world, we realized how we were being poisoned by all the artificially packaged foods. Unfortunately, our surroundings are full of so-called “healthy vegetables and fruits” grown with herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and chemical fertilizers that destroy the soil, water, and the air we breathe☣️. During this journey, our dear friends Mustafa and Berfu, who share the same worries, dreams, and hopes with us, joined along the way. Together we have become a small, productive, and cooperative little community, and we feel so lucky to have found each other and to grow side by side💚.
That’s when we discovered Permaculture, and our lives changed completely💡. We decided to find a piece of land where we could afford to live a healthy, sustainable, and regenerative life. And we found it🎯. Although we are still at the beginning of our work, we have already come a long way. For now, we produce mainly for our family’s needs, and our friends and volunteers join us and support our efforts. We believe that the success of our farm carries an important social message for a sustainable world📣🌍.
That’s why we love to share our experiences as rural pioneers. By visiting our farm, you can witness ecological production methods and the permaculture approach up close✌️.
Welcome all of you to our Permaculture Farm! 🌿
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Pets
Farming
Carpentry
Gardening
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Books
Cooking & food
Nature
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
During this visit, you will have detailed information about ecological production and permaculture applications, both theoretically and practically.🌾 You'll also become familiar with the local culture of consumption and production. ☘️At the farm, you will gain experiences about Cypriot food and beverage culture and daily life in the countryside.🧑🌾
Help
Our philosophy in general is to leave it as you found it. Stuff that are used both in the house and outside at the garden are expected to be cleaned and put in place after used.🧹
The help needed is both in the house as housework, cooking and cleaning and in the garden; which are seasonal garden and farm works. 🍲
For example, chicken feeding (which we don`t have yet), composting, mowing, mulching, planting, harvesting, cleaning of garden beds, cutting wood and minor repairs..🛠️
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Turkish: Fluent
Accommodation
There is a separate room with a double bed for volunteers. Also a separate toilet and shower, 24 hours hot water. Washing and drying machines. Unlimited internet 24 hours a day. Three meals a day are available. We can provide sheets and towels.. 🛀🛌🚽🛜
What else ...
Our farm is in rural area village.. It is 20 minutes away from the nearest city by car🚗, 25 minutes from the nearest beach🏖️, 20 minutes from the airport🛫, 3 minutes from the market, and 10 minutes from the wetland in natural protected zone🛤️. If you like cycling, we have a bike available🚲. We can accompany you in our free time so that you can tour the surroundings.🗺️
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Mia
Lisha
Shira
Loki
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Beyond her work, Katya’s positive spirit and… read more
Both of… read more
The permaculture grows many beautiful… read more
We made compost, did some weeding, planted, and prepared the garden beds for the new season.
The food was absolutely delicious,… read more
During your time at our permaculture farm, your kindness and hardworking nature truly made a difference for all of us. Your efforts in preparing the garden beds for the new season, combined with your eagerness to learn, greatly contributed to the progress of our project. Your helpfulness made the process not only more efficient but… read more
We are grateful for the time she spent with us, and we already miss her presence. We hope to see her… read more
I stayed with Irfan, Sinem and their little beautiful boy Ruzgar, for 6 weeks. Time flew so quick! Irfan and Sinem work on their permaculture farm while having full-time job. They warmly welcomed me as a member of the family, and actually, 6 weeks was the longest stay for me in my Workaway experiences,… read more
Her commitment to gardening was exceptional; she meticulously organized our garden, enhancing its… read more
Her enthusiasm for gardening was evident, and she quickly became adept at helping with various tasks around the farm.… read more
They made significant contributions to our production, especially in composting, mandala and potato gardens. They also played an active role in maintaining and cleaning the farm, helping… read more
Over our time there we got to try our hand at variety of tasks and learned loads in the process. We worked three hours in the morning,… read more
Alex and Cassie's hard work and careful attitude… read more
Work was 25 hours, starting early in the morning to avoid the heat and it was flexible if you wanted to work longer to take some time off. Cassie did a large amount of weeding, as well… read more
She contributed to the healthy growth of our crops by working in the garden and did her best for other jobs on the farm as well.
At the same time, she… read more
During my stay, I had the opportunity to work and learn about permaculture, which was an amazing experience. I particularly enjoyed working with the soil and seeing the fruits of our labor grow. The… read more
Honestly, we have had the most incredible time.
Irfan, Sinem, Ruzgar and Loki the pup are the most accepting, loving family we could have hoped for!
Making us feel welcome seemed to come genuinely naturally to the whole family. really making us feel… read more
