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Hi everyone, we are a family of four, Jennifer, Stefano, David who is 10 and Ariel who is 4. We live and work in our countryside agriturismo in central Italy, an organic farm established in the early Eighties where people come to spend their holidays. We have 5 donkeys, chickens, pigeons, pigs, cats, dogs. We are surrounded by woodland with beautiful walking paths, here are a sauna in a cave in the forest, a swimming pool, a vegetable garden and olive trees. We produce organic extra virgin olive oil, jams, spelt, meat, vegetables, and everything we can for our own consumption and restaurant.
We have 3 holidayhouses wich are rented during all the year but mostly in spring and summer time to italian or people from other countries, usually families with kids.
Here is a restaurant where our guests can eat good and healthy food.
Workawayers will not help for our business.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
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
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Living in the Umbrian countryside is an experience in itself, connecting with the pace of nature and breathe in the cultural traditions of the heart of Italy. We will share all our knowledge about growing and tending plants and animals, and the principles of organic farming, about italian food, and about living and working in an italian "agriturismo".
Jennie has a passion for naturopathy, yoga, arts, creativity. Stefano for food, plants, tools, wood and fishing. We can help you learn and improve italian and introduce you to our beautiful region.
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Help
We are looking for couples preferentially with a bit Italian speaking, who can help us with the many things that need doing around our family house and farm.
In this period we are working on renovating our agriturismo, so we would love to have two pairs of hand more involved in our project!
We need help preparing food for everybody for lunch, for the housekeeping (in the inside spaces and in the outside ones), sometimes take care or play or work with our 2 kids, take care of our chicken every day.
At the same time we are looking for someone that is good in:
1) handcrafts, wood works, carpentry, painting, and reparing, as we will renovate our apartments and are looking for manpower and ideas.
2) gardening, landscaping, country jobs such as chopping wood for the fire, helping in olives harvest, working outside in various things, such as maintenance works.
We need new content for our new web site and marketing accounts, so would be nice to have some new photos or good textes! So, if you are creative in this, we will really apreciate your help!
For summer time (july and august) we are looking for a long stay help, for a continous relationship for our kids, they will be at home for all the summer and would be great to know that there is someone to stay with them if they need, besides us. They are quit independent but still need some help or play time together.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Accommodation
We offer an apartment on the ground floor of our big farm house. Regarding food you will have breakfast by your own, lunch is all together and dinner depending on what's going on.. Ingredients are always provided and obviously you’ll have access to all our own products (meat, olive oil, vegetables, fruit, eggs...).
What else ...
We live in the countryside, the next town is 4 Km from us, very small, but there is anything you need. 20 Km from us there is Orvieto, a small city, and vary nice to visiting. We are surrounded by many wood, paths and streets for walkings and for mountain bike tours, many nice town to visit with each his own interesting story. Nearby there is the Bolsena lake for very nice one day stay, where you can also canoing or windsurfing, and the same on the Trasimeno Lake too. In the surrounding there are nice walls for climbing and a very nice fitness club with also an indoor climb wall. There are interesting caves to visit with guides, and not far there are thermal bath, free or in spa. We live in a very nice place! To discover and to love.
During summer time almost every day you can find something to do in the towns nerby, as music, live music, coctails, outside cinema or theatre, dancing, walkings with guide, and mostly food.
We can have times to spend together and you can explore by yourself.
A little more information
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.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
4-5 hours per day, max 5 days a week
Feedback (6)
Very precise in everything and very nice being with them, talking, laughing, and allways ready to joke!
Good luck for everything guys! We miss you!
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Very precise in everything and very nice being with them, talking, laughing, and allways ready to joke!
Good luck for everything guys! We miss you!
Ils sont très sympathiques, et vous feront pleinement découvrir la vie de leur village et de leur agriturismo.
A l'extérieur comme à l'intérieur, le travail est clairement expliqué.
Et en plus, ils cuisinent divinement bien.
Bref une expérience très enrichissante, a tout… read more
The place and the environment were beautiful. We ate together at noon.
In the morning I fed the chickens, geese, cats and dogs. Sometimes also donkeys.
We made firewood, we dismantled the… read more
